In the early 90s I used to see them all the time (along with a lot of other insane tracts and scams) stuck in the struts that held the equally unsavory, paid-for ads in the NYC subway. They, and Dr. Zizmor horror graphics ads, and ITT Technical Institute lists of exciting careers I could enter, were my reading…

Oh, +1 for remembering “Suddenly Susan” and plus another one for remembering that Kathy Griffin was in it.

I wonder how many patients pester their doctors because of something they saw on TV? That must get tiresome.

When Michelle calls him “their candidate” she also reinforces the fact that DT did not somehow just show up from outer space, that he is at the top of the Republican Party, so no matter how much any other Republican candidate disavows Trump the party voters certainly didn’t.

This is not fan fic. This actually appeared in the DC comic.

Wonder Woman joins an all star lineup:

Library and Information Science degrees are in demand! Not because places are hiring librarians, they’re not, but informational architecture and infrastructure is the backbone of the digital economy. I know quite a few people who have these degrees and are in lucrative 21st-century jobs. Best of all you don’t have to…

Many years ago my tenement had a mouse infestation problem so the landlord put down poison in the basement. The poison makes the mice delirious and constantly thirsty (I think they die of dehydration, after a long, agonizing period of decline.) One of them made its way into my apartment. I was on the phone at the…

I agree with scowly. I too have had lower back muscle spasms and I’ve gone to massage therapists who know how to work out the knots. What happens is the nerves get tangled up like a closed fist and the longer you let it go the more the body tries to compensate and then the worse it gets.

Since Susan Sontag was very, very close to Annie Liebovitz I don’t think she’d be a fan of the selfie per se. But I’m sure she would have written about it and tell us what it says about ourselves.

That optician story is weird, I’m surprised they didn’t try to upsell you. As long as your credit card clears they wouldn’t care if it bankrupts you.

I don’t mean to bigfoot halfpast but I believe the Donald Trump BS food truck photo was taken in downtown Portland, OR (Ad agency W+K is Portland-based.) Portland makes San Francisco seem like it’s part of the Bible Belt. Your blue state may get one yet!

Wieden+Kennedy made an appearance on “Portlandia”! (Of course they did.) One of Carrie Brownstein’s characters goes there for an interview. Apparently “The Nest” is a real thing.

Discos are superheroes’ secret weakness. They love them an can’t stay away:

I too haunt supermarkets abroad, it’s one of the first things I do when I get off the plane. I do it for more practical reasons: I wander the aisles and remind myself, “Oh, right, that’s how you say bread in Italian” or “Yes, it’s porc for pork in French, that’s easy!” I have a pretty good memory for languages, or at…

I’m also a middle child. I should be a UN peace negotiator.

Thanks! My poor mother. She never forgot and never forgave. If I ever meet her in the afterlife she’s going to bring up the “vase” incident. And an eternity of other things.

According to infallible wikipedia, there has been some staff turnover, but 70-year-old Ralf Hütter, one of the founders (1970), is still with them, and they keep reconstituting themselves. Hütter probably owns the rights to the songs.

Best part of the story is that it was Kraftwerk. You should have told the dealer that you got a last-minute deal on the Transeuropa Express and you couldn’t pass it up.

Wait. Wait wait wait. You worked at an ad firm and were supposed to get in at 8 AM and people noticed if you got in at 8:04 AM? And had a daily at 8:30 AM? You guys sure do things differently in Memphis.