Showing posts with label Awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awesome. Show all posts

14 April 2009

Brand Appeal

Just who is this ad campaign targeting?

I mean, really: interactive shirtless rugby players? Not work-safe - especially the slow-mo shots. Sullivan:

For some reason, I was distracted and mistook the sport in this ad for soccer.
Distracted? Can't think why, Andrew...can't think why.

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18 January 2009

From the Department of Stating the Obvious

Sean Combs, at the Inauguration:

Close to 2 a.m., Diddy strode on stage wearing sunglasses, a winter vest and some sort of white Christmas sweater.

Facing the crowd, he took the microphone and yelled: “The President is black baby! Yeah!”

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21 May 2008

Welcome home, Dear (Dr.?) de Montebello

Met Director Will Become Professor at N.Y.U. Institute

I should have bet money on this.

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20 April 2008

Doug Finlay, that flapping sound you hear...

...is all 'dem chickens coming home to roost.


Check this out.

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28 February 2008

Obama-Santos '08



Media ecology at its finest.

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17 January 2008

At least Hilary can drink...

...a bottle of Pinot Noir, perhaps?

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13 January 2008

Even More on Mims

For those few among our readers who don't also read Matthew Yglesias regularly.

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10 January 2008

Even Robin Brooke-Smith was not this pastoral

Two faculty in my department own sheep. (That's two separate, not-married-to-each-other faculty, living in different houses, or rather, gentleman farms outside Princeton, each with their own flock of sheep).

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04 December 2007

For those of you who are not Aldous...

...but would still like a sense of what it's like to visit the culinary Mecca that's Spain's San Sebastián, Slate is running a series of articles (with slides) by wine columnist Mike Steinberger on the town that has the most Michelin stars per capita in the world.

Highlights so far: Juan Mari Arzak's spice chamber, and the fact that the exterior of Restaurante Arzak wouldn't look out of place in Brooklyn, as Steinberger suggests, or failing that, Etobicoke.

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28 November 2007

WHOA!

It is probably a symptom of my feeble and simple mind that I find the following video endlessly fascinating:

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