Weirdness

Without the happy ending. (Hat tip: Balko) … [Read more...] about “If You Like Pina Coladas…”

A few nights ago I was getting ready to go to bed when I heard my cellphone buzzing away in the pocket of my jacket. It does that periodically when I've missed a call, so I pulled it out to see I had missed anything important. It wasn't a missed call. It was an instant message. Who the heck would send me a message at 2 am? Curious, I opened the message and got a picture. … [Read more...] about Making New Friends With Cell Phones

Maybe it's time for me to have a new logo designed, like one of these. (Hat tip: Lindsey) … [Read more...] about Is My Logo Big Enough?

If you were a clothing designer, and you were making T-shirts for sale at WalMart, and somebody said "How about a shirt with a skull? Maybe something kind of crude and retro-looking?" You might google around for royalty-free skull images and come up with the one I have here, and a few months later the shirt you made with it would be sold in all of WalMart's stores. Pretty … [Read more...] about Cool Skull Shirt Not Really That Cool

This is a breaking story, but apparently Turner Broadcasting wanted to promote their surreal Cartoon Network show Aqua Teen Hunger Force in an unusual way, so they hired New York's Interference Inc., which describes itself as "A nationwide guerilla and alternative marketing agency," to drum up some street-level publicity. I guess you could say it worked: Electronic light … [Read more...] about How to Promote Your Television Show