Entries from February 2009

February 23, 2009

Hefty, Hefty, Hefty! Racist, Racist Racist?

Have you seen the latest ad for Hefty trash bags that feature an attractive black woman stricken with horror because her stinky garbage has prompted a menacing, spooky voice to call and taunt her all Screamlike about the stench and by extension, her own lack of cleanliness? Then there’s a little interlude in which viewers [...]

February 8, 2009

If the bus is rockin’, Bret Michaels ain’t in it.

After weeks and weeks of feeling so overwhelmed by massive amounts of reality tv detritus and terror that I’ll get fired for blogging at work, I have nothing to say. But I thought, I can’t commit to a stupid friggin blog, really? So it’s a rainy night and I’m home, so I poured myself [...]