I really cannot help but wonder if that Turkish plane crashed in Amsterdam to advertise Twitter! (I know this is a very dark thought, but….) As I was ill and stuck to my couch and as I am known for my CNN addiction (I promise, it is not only because of Anderson Cooper) – I followed breaking news almost whole day. And I was shocked how often and with which enthusiasm CNN was mentioning the role of Tweeter and that they actually got the first hint from there. Does CNN have a stake in Twitter? Similar, though much milder, was going on NTV – suddenly the news about the plane crash became the news about how cool Twitter is.
So, I went to my account, which was sleeping peacefully since I made it, to see what the fuss is about. And I still don’t dig it. Does the world really need to be continuously feed my BS in size “140 characters”? People are posting links and some non-understandable abbreviations; it is all just a mess! A link salad. How do you find any interesting info there? And – if we really start communicating in 140, will our brains melt to a size of a bird’s brain? I don’t know….
Anyone of you guys twitting?
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Twitter, anyone?
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Batwoman, the First Gay Superhero
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Yesterday, a friend informed me about the birth of a new superhero: Batwoman. And Batwoman is a sexy red-haired lesbian. My friend asked me what about the equality – there is no gay male superhero.
First, let me say how extremely shocked I was when I read that Batman was dead. I am a big fan of Batman and if I ever had a sexual fantasy, it was peeling off that black muscled uniform to find…. George Clooney back from saving the world. But lately I am boycotting anything “Made in Hollywood” so I didn’t even know that my superhero is dead. He’ll be back! I am sure.
Anyway, back to equality – Batwoman being gay is not a question of gender but a question of the size of the target market. Knowing how heterosexual men feel about a sexy red-haired woman having sex with another woman, we know Batwoman has a huge group on board. Hetero women finally have a female superhero, so they’re in as well, never mind that she is lesbian. Gay men love beautiful cartoonish women like Batwoman, so they’re also in. And finally gay women – but don’t need to comment on that.
On the other hand, if you had a gay male superhero…. Hetero men will definitely not read. Hetero women couldn’t care less. Gay women …. not that into men, even if they are gay. So you only have gay men as target market. And this one is three qarters smaller than Batwoman’s. You do the business case math.
For more information about Batwoman, go to
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/batwoman-the-redheaded-lesbian-is-unleashed-at-last-1606329.html
And I am off to find my Batman DVDs.
How about a reality show?
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Watched CNN, Larry King today. You know about that mother of octuplets? She is a single mother, already has 6 children and now she had 8 more in one go. She has eight embryos left from her fertility treatment so she thought “Hey, won’t throw these embryos away, and if I keep them much longer in my fridge, they might get bad. So why not have them implanted and become a single mother of 8 (+6=14)?”. Which normal person in this world would do this? Are doctors really allowed to do shit like this? Destroy lives of 15 people (without counting in her parents, kids’ grandparents). And then on the other hand we have Berlusconi and Vatican discussing if that poor woman who spent 17 out of her 37 years in coma is allowed to die. So on one hand, we may play God by artificially creating and destroying lives and on the other, we may not play God by stopping suffering we are artificially keeping up. Makes no sense to me.
Any way. Average American parent spends $269,520 raising a child to 17, so the mother of the octuplets could be facing a total childcare bill of more than $2.1 million by 2026, that’s before adjustments for inflation. So it turned out that the mother of octuplets is planning to sell her story for millions. Most probably do a reality show.
Few minutes later, after five zillion ads (Larry King is the only show in the world which has an ad every 10 seconds), we had new guests on the show. The judge of Anna Nicole Smith trial. This guy became famous because he cried in the courtroom. So, we learn that the judge is now retired (basically it turns out that he cried because it was his last case before retirement and he freaked) and is now starting – a reality show! And then comes the surprise guest – Anna Nicole Smith’s lover boy with their daughter. And he tells us that he is planning….. yes, you guessed it right – a reality show!
Jeez, who the hell is watching all those reality shows? How about one joined reality show? Judge can cry while baby-sitting 15 kids plus Smith’s daughter, while Smith’s lover boy and octuplets’ mom make more kids? And everybody lives happy ever after – on Smith’s millions.
Maybe I should start writing a screenplay.
DABA
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Check them ladies out!
Dating a Banker Anonymous is a blog started by two friends whose relationships with their FBFs (Finance guy Boyfriend) went down with the Wall Street reports. So they started a blog: “Dating A Banker Anonymous (DABA) is a safe place where women can come together – free from the scrutiny of feminists– and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown has affected their relationships.”
So if you want to see how some people are REALLY suffering from the economic crisis, go visit them at:
http://dabagirls.wordpress.com/
The world is gone mad.
…………
Hehe, and the FBFs are (trying to ) fight back:
http://www.bankersball.com/2009/01/28/the-curiously-pathetic-life-of-bankers/
Karl Marx Manga Becomes Bestseller
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009After Europe re-discovered Karl Marx’s work, the trend is moving on: a Karl Marx manga turned into a hit in Japan, selling 70,000 copies since December.
The dramatic shift to the left in Japanese literary tastes has even revived domestic socialist tracts of the 1930s: one of the strongest selling books of the year, at nearly half a million copies, is Kanikosen – a savagely bleak, novel depicting violence, exploitation and revolution aboard a crabmeat canning ship.
It seems that we all had enough…..
Oprah is fat! Let’s give her more money!
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Woow, this is fantastic! Oprah Winfrey is fat again! (And I am embarrassed because I can spell her name).
Normally, being fat is a sign of weakness and lack of discipline. But this woman magically managed to turn this weakness into her strength. She is using the fact that she blew herself into a size of a meteorological balloon to promote and position herself even more as a people’s person – and earn a few hundreds of millions more. Only few moments ago, I turned CNN on and thought I was dreaming: Larry King was seriously discussing Oprah Winfrey’s fat with 5 other guests! And then she comes on with an atypically tiny voice saying how embarrassed she is and how she’s eating a bag of potato chips a day and then continues with some spiritual shit and victims of Katrina. I am sure next comes “Diet with Oprah/If she can You can” show/book/CD/fitness DVD.
The story reminds me a bit of Robert Misik’s book “Genial Dagegen” in which he shows how this system magically manages to turn its every weakness, and other’s critique, into its favour. Here’s the secret to survival…..
Off shore journalism?
Friday, December 19th, 2008Hmmm, now that every single object we are using in our everyday life, from toothbrush to underpants is produced somewhere “off shore” resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs, how about this idea: Indians writing local US newspapers – thousand words for only $7.50!
For more (amusing but scary) information, see Maureen Dowd’s last Op-Ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/opinion/30dowd.html?_r=1
My dad was right when he said that instead of exporting wealth, we really managed to do the opposite: import poverty.
Thank God for German language – I will have to start polishing it!
New Men?
Monday, December 15th, 2008Poor men, it seems that they became victims of the same beauty-dictatorship women were suffering under for so long. And we LIKE it! Am I just lucky or do young successful men take more and more care of their bodies? I must admit that I became seriously addicted to “accidentally clapping” a man’s shoulder while talking to him. Because lately, my hand always landed on an iron-like muscle. And my hands (and not only mine) like iron-like muscles.
Keep up, boys!
Facebook Horror
Monday, December 8th, 2008Few years ago there was all that hype about Second Life. Second Life was a virtual reality. It was not a game – you did not play there but you would go in and create your avatar the way you like it, build your house, meet new people, go to rock concerts, etc. It was what the name said – a second, or a parallel, life. Many companies invested money to be represented in Second Life. Adidas created special SL shoes, Coca-Cola was in, IBM, Ford . Many people spent hours there, many spent dollars there, and some even earned a little fortune there. Thank God, the Second Life craze eased (or is it just that I don’t follow the news on interactive topics since I left Ogilvy?) but we immediately found a substitute. Within few months, Facebook turned into Second Life, just a bit creepier – because in SL you invented your avatar. In Facebook you are yourself – but (trying to be) funnier, sexier, cooler. And you constantly feed the world with the newest update about how you are feeling, what you are doing, whom you are meeting, how you are looking. I notice that we are slowly becoming seriously addicted to this possibility of a virtual projection of our lives to the world. Yes, Facebook has good sides – like me finding my first boyfriend who is now in Thailand and whom I would have otherwise never found. On the other hand, I am wondering if Facebook will soon turn into some weird second reality which will slowly take up a life of its own. Imagine one day the Facebook “us” started rebelling and decided to mess up our real lives. With all that information and trust, easily done….
Sex & the City: The Recession
Friday, March 6th, 2009For all S&C fans, here’s an American journalist’s try to write a recession version of S&C. Am not sure if I find it funny, but hey – he gave it a shot, which is cool:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-04/sex-and-the-city-2-recessionistas/
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