My boy and America’s sweetheart Matt Taibbi was on the Colbert Report the other night discussing the primaries. Matt’s the smartest voice in campaign coverage, and one of the funniest. View him with eyeballs!!I have also posted a thoughtful essay in my Touch of Ego section about a novel counter-propaganda campaign that anyone can participate in to help destroy the Bush legacy. Decontaminate your brain and read it!
Hasbro has begun running a series of meta-ironic magazine ads for their classic G.I. Joe masculine indoctrination toys from the 80s. Yes, they have finally caught on to what that snickering over “knowing is half the battle” was all about. (Click the pictures for full size)
Retro-hip kind of loses its fizz when the product being mocked tries to get in on the joke. It’s like your Dad asking if you’ve been “YouTubing on the Internets” in your grandfather’s voice. Nevertheless, I am not ready to surrender one more icon of my youth to the ash heap of recuperation. What’s needed is deeper, more self-conscious irony, something that says “So what if I choose to give the last fuck? Fuck-giving is the foam on life’s latte, you pro-corporate poseur-hag.”
Call it “full circle jerk”, a new cynicism that is already an homage to itself, like Joan Crawford using a wire hangar to beat a Cabbage Patch Kid wearing a Rachel’s Vineyard T-shirt. Here is my contribution to the G.I Joe campaign. Feel free to send me your own Photoshopped indifference.
Deep Fried fan par excellence Elka Bong has done the next best thing to purchasing all of my back stock: She has ruined her flesh in my name!
Thank’s to Elka’s alcoholism and poor choice in friends, Beepo will be juggling kittens on her shin forever!
My only hope is that someday Elka falls over dead in an Irish peat bog so that her mummified corpse can be put on display thousands of years in the future, where the cerebro sapiens will undoubtedly conclude that Beepo was either Elka’s slave brand or her deity.
My girl Eva Hopkins (sweet, sexy, pink…you’ve seen her) is the demoness responsible for writing Image Comics upcoming vampire brat comic Dark Ivory (with art by the insurmountable Joe Linsner). It is available for order in this month’s Previews catalog (available at comic shops), which features an interview with Eva as well. OR, you could just order it here!
I’ve been peeking over the shoulder’ of Dark Ivory’s creators for years, and she is one child of the night any vampire/goth/action fan will want to play with. Buffy won’t be slaying this Princess of the Damned, but Ivory take you on a tour of Evil’s precincts that you won’t soon forget!
Feel like you need an intense rush of addictive cinnamon excitement?? Er, I mean…are you ready to quit smoking over a period of twelve years? Then chew what all the sexxxxy young adults are chewing ! Um, that is to say…methadone maintenance just got a brand new ad campaign. Try NEW Nicorette Action-Flavored sports gum! By which we mean, make Nicorette Cinnamon Surge a part of your doctor-regulated stop-smoking regiment. It’s the needle in the arm that does your lungs no harm! The chewable drug that gives your habit a hug! Urhmm…please limit consumption to 15 pieces a day. Consult our FAQ before giving Nicorette to children under four.