The most egregious affront to a viewer’s intelligence in a TV commercial is the phrase: A, Don’t try this at home B, Closed course, professional driver, do not attempt C, Ask your doctor The answer is, of course, ‘Ask your doctor.’ They’ve got nothing better to do than sit on the phone with you to […]
Top ten reasons we’re happy 2013 is over
#10, War is over if you want it The so called ‘war on Christmas’ is over for another year. Extreme conservatives who have no one to listen to except Sarah Palin, who is struggling at staying in the public eye, truly believe their faith is at risk because of ‘liberals’ who have something better to […]
King Mango Strut ‘punks’ Channel 7
The King Mango Strut, Coconut Grove’s satirical end of year parade, didn’t plan to ‘punk’ Channel 7, but when the TV station received a press release that said ‘Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’ will appear as the Grand Marshall, they had to cover the news, not realizing it was another in a long long line of […]
Dynasty crumbling?
Why we may not want to ‘Keep up’ any longer. One of America’s loosely defined guilty pleasures may have peaked. As a nation we may have had enough and are bidding farewell to a family that for some reason have captured our imagination like a celebrity opening up the sordid parts of their lives to […]