Archive for May, 2008
dove is clean
here’s a follow up to 180’s i’m not that fat… story.
dove, annie leibovitz, and pascal dangin (the guy who started all this) have stated that the photos from the dove real beauty campaign have not been digitally altered. dove says that the real women campaign was done by ogilvy and that they did not employ [...]
doesn’t she look sweet?
growing up in nyc, sue simmons was a regular face on the local nightly news. a few months ago, i attended a celebration for the 25 year anniversary of the pairing of sue and chuck (scarborough) on channel 4 and walked away thinking that she’s incredibly sweet to be one of the highest paid anchors [...]
ok, so maybe kanye was right*
and i hate saying that because hearing “i told you so” from him would be sooooo annoying. but check this out: congress is trying to pass the first legislation regulating tobacco. the proposed legislation gives the food and drug administration the “the power to oversee tobacco products, [and] would try to reduce smoking’s allure to [...]
got $100,000 to spare?
in addition to rupert murdoch and tim russert, jeff han was named one of time magazine’s 100 influential people in 2008. if you’ve been watching cnn’s or fox news’ election coverage, you know han’s invention well. cnn calls theirs the “magic board”, their magician – john king. fox news calls it the “bill board”, named [...]
i’m not that fat/old/ugly/liberal/conservative– really, i’m not
on any given day in new york, you walk downtown and you are bombarded by tall, skinny, pretty models. you know that no amount of working out, beauty treatments, or psycho therapy will make you “one of them”. that’s why i think the dove commercials showing “real women” and their imperfections were so welcomed and [...]
and it comes with an ocean view!
so yesterday I mentioned how 630 loves animals. well, i happen to know that 630 also really likes aquariums. i came across this interesting article about the expansion of the aquarium in atlanta (which claims to be the world’s largest but many dispute). so, just to make sure that they are the biggest and the [...]
those texans sure do like to make signs
apparently misspellings in home made signs are a common thing. these protestors made these signs in response to recent arrests of only the women for prostitution in south texas. apparently these protestors thinks the men (or JHONS) should be arrested too.
** i will give these folks some allowance for using stencils to make their sign [...]
