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01/20/2017 · 6:10 pm

21st Century Hatfields and McCoys

The first brand feud I can remember is Atari vs. Intellivision.

Note Major League Baseball endorsement. And misspelling of product name in quote. Superior, my Aunt Fanny.

Some kids had an Atari 2600 game console; some kids had an Intellivision. (Some kids had an Odyssey 2 or a Vectrex, but not for very long.) Atari kids hated Intellivision kids, and vice versa. The TV commercials for both brands stoked this hatred; George Plimpton appeared in an ad for Intellivision, which he explained meant “Intelligent Television”. Ergo, kids who played Atari were stupid. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1980s, 1984, 2017, advertising, Atari 2600, corporate crap, George Plympton, Great Videogame Crash of 1983, Halo, Intellivision, LAN parties, Macintosh, Mattel, Mattel electronic football, Microsoft, Nintendo, Odyssey 2, online gaming, Pac-Man, PlayStation, Sega Genesis, sports, Super Mario Bros., television, Vectrex, Xbox

08/19/2016 · 7:53 pm

A Wronging Endorsement

In the latter half of the 1980s, just about every teenage guy wanted to be Michael J. Fox.

Kari Michaelson AND Nancy McKeon- ROWR!

He had indomitable charisma. He had charm. He even made voice-cracking kind of cool. He was likable yuppie Alex P. Keaton on NBC’s sitcom Family Ties, and spastic teen time-traveler Marty McFly in the Back To The Future trilogy of movies.

Then in 1991, after Brian DePalma’s Casualties Of War, Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s Disease. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1980s, 1985, 1989, 1991, advertising, Back To The Future, Back To The Future II, Bill Cosby, Casualties Of War, Coke, corporate crap, Donald Rumsfeld, Family Ties, Michael J. Fox, Monsanto, movies, Pepsi, product placement, sellouts, whores

06/21/2016 · 5:23 pm

Soul Coughing

All comics I produced from 2006-2008 were written and drawn during the production of my movie, John’s Arm: Armageddon. I jumped the gun by putting a “release date” on my shirt in the opening panel. Here’s why.

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04/21/2016 · 8:08 pm

A Fart In The Face

Earlier this year I crossed a boundary with the dog.

This is a different dog.

I’d eaten some godawful fried thing or another, and feeling a buildup of gas, I leaped over to the dog, crouched directly above his face, and knocked a king-size fart across his nose.

Triumphant, I turned to face the dog, expecting adoration for this generous gastric flotilla. Instead, the dog regarded me with a reproachful look, the kind I expect people receive when they jiggle their comatose grandmother’s breast for a family photo.

“What’s the matter?” I asked the dog in plain English, as though he would reply in kind. “Don’t you, a dog, enjoy the smell of shit?” Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, advertising, Coke, corporate crap, despair, dogs, farts, laughter, movies, music, perfume, sellouts, whores, YouTube

03/21/2016 · 8:29 am

Why Black People Are Mad (By A White Person)

In the media, context means fame or misfortune.

In the media, context means fame, misfortune, or both.

By 2017, I will have resided in Atlanta, capitol and most populous city of Georgia, for fifteen years. Over 50% of our residents are black. It’s not a part of the country you’d live in if you dislike black people. And as a white person, I’ve been fortunate enough to interact with and observe black people on a daily basis, and compare it with how they are represented in the media and online.

I racked my white brain, the same kind of brain that built bridges and put men on the moon, to get a handle on the disparity I saw. I called upon my ancestry as an Italian immigrant to help me understand the terrible sins at the heart of it. I now know why anyone who identifies as black would be mad. Continue reading →

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