Meow Mix has now launched Catstarter–Kickstarter for cats. Because nothing says innovation like cats and the internet. …No, I’m not sure if that was sarcastic or not.
Category: Yup, They Made That
Truth in advertising? You be the judge…
Is that Burger a Manwich?
The X Men, in case you didn’t know, are a group of super hero mutants with amazing talents, like being super smart, or really strong, or whipping up storms from nothing. Want to see one of the X Men use her super mutant powers for something amazing? YES! Here’s Mystique using her power as a shape shifter to …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs8zC-AnQk
….wait, did she just turn into a man so she could eat a hamburger? Is that a superpower now? If so, call me Xmntks–I have been known to eat a burger!
Next time you’re munching through some time with TV, take a look at who gets to eat what foods. If you are reading this and your 23rd chromosome reads XX, then let me give you a heads up–chocolate.
Chocolate is totally okay for women to eat. Someone should tell this woman: “Mon Deiu! Should I wear this, or eat this? Sigh…”
It is also TOTALLY okay to have any kind of chocolate that will make your monstrous body smaller.
It is also okay to replace sex with eating chocolate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-1_CS75zQ
So, ladies, eat all the chocolate you want as long as you don’t get fat, and you don’t eat MAN FOOD:
Seriously, why is it that ads encourage women to have all sorts of indulgent moments eating chocolate, but when it comes to real food, women have to shape shift to get a burger down?
You Can’t Handle the Twist
The Army wants you–as long as you don’t have a natural. Even though the calendar reads 2014, and natural hair for black women is more popular than ever, here are the army’s updated hair rules.
Real Fake
Soooo a real company (McDonald’s) with a fake clown named Ronald Mc Donald made a real ad with the fake clown petting a real dog playing the role of a fake dog who is the mascot for a real company (Taco Bell) that made a real ad with real people named Ronald Mc Donald like the fake clown. With all the fake/real back and forth, it’s no wonder we can’t tell if the food is real or fake.
The Upside of Competition
Ford got a chance to shine this week by playing off Cadillac’s recent widely-panned homage to American materialism. Check out both ads back to back:
That Ford scored some cool points by using an afro-clad black woman touting sustainable farming is a:
a. wonderful example of the power of american multiculturalism
b. a cynical way of using women, people of color, and environmentalists to shill for a multinational corporation
c. a calculated way of using issues people care deeply about to market product to women, minorities and working class folk
d. yes
Hint: Ford created the ad, hitting three demos with one fresh face, and even built a brand new Youtube channel called “Upside” in response to Cadillac’s script. They landed over 2000 news stories and nearly a million views in one weekend. Caring, or calculated, or both?
I’d say this isn’t the last upside ad we’ll see from Ford. Be on the lookout for the accompanying interactive website; the hashtag #Upside is already treanding.
Did You Mean What You Said?
Why Ponies Shouldn’t Wear Hats
Pink Pony front woman and daughter of the governor of Oklahoma, Christina Fallin was really feeling a deep connection to the Native Americans she grew up around. So deep that she posted this picture of her wearing an admittedly-stunning-though-sacred-so-you-probably-shouldn’t-pose-in-it-for-Facebook headdress on her band’s Facebook page.
She titled the picture Appropriate Culturation, so she clearly presumably knows what cultural appropriation is and is trying to be clever. She also apparently decided to redefine it and made herself the appropriator of the appropriateness of cultural appropriation. Yay! She now decides when people from one culture can rock the ritual and sacred items from another culture as “fun accessories” or funky fashion for flaunting their deep spiritual connections.
Too bad no one told the many peoples who belong to the cultures for which she is the appropriate appropriator of cultural appropriateness. Thus, her Appropriateness had to issue this royal proclamation from her cultural fantasyland apology.
Sigh. Next time, just let your mane flow, little pony.
Is It Better to Just Wonder?
In newsrooms they say “if it bleeds, it leads.” News reporters like to wring all the drama from your local crimes as they can. But too often, news coverage leaves us with no answers to crime’s most serious question: why criminals do what they do? Imagine the surprise of the local 8 news crew in Knoxville, Tennessee when the stabbing suspect came right up to them and answered that very question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvp4wCmA74g
Soooooo, Satan. That’s what you’re going with. Maybe it’s better just to wonder.
Got Swoobs? Forget Soap!
In an effort to keep increasing our vocabulary with useful words, Fresh Body gives you swoobs: “the dreaded boob sweat”. Of course they have just the product to fix your disgusting swoobs. Fresh Breasts is yet another product you didn’t know you needed.
Lest you think this is all about the ladies, Fresh Body want men to waste money freshen up with their own product.
Lotions and creams are a $7 billion dollar industry in the US alone. Fresh body hopes to swoob swab up the competition. You buying?
Brian and Lester’s Rapper’s Delight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs
Once again Jimmy Fallon uses his new post as the King of Late Night to showcase Hip Hop to the masses. Here the classic Rapper’s Delight from Sugar Hill Gang gets the Nightly News remix.
Susan X Jane 