London Calling – Edgy Marketing Gone Awry

The thing is, I dig this song. The Clash is one of those bands I never tire of and their most successful tune, “London Calling,” is an easy crowd pleaser for most social events below a certain tax bracket. This girl is always down to listen to it.
That said I was a bit surprised to [...]

Olympics Closing Ceremony – Canada (tries to) Class it Up

Well, it finally came to an end. After months of build up and two weeks of nonstop coverage of sports that are only important once every four years, the Winter Olympics (coming to you from unexpectedly warm Vancouver) wrapped up on Sunday night, turned up the lights, cleaned up the spilled beer, and politely started [...]

Olympics Schmolympics

I already knew that most media was twisted, but until recently, I’ve held onto an apparently misguided belief that local news reported on things that were happening locally. Fox News and MSNBC are obviously mediums for the extreme right and left, respectively, and CNN has the frustrating habit of reporting for hours on events before [...]

The Kooks in Olympic Drama

With just a week to go before the opening ceremonies for the Bejing Olympics, an innocent little song by The Kooks has somehow led to an international controversy. It seems that two members of Britain’s Olympic sailing squad have been forced to change the name of their boat after Olympic officials deemed it inappropriate.
Ben [...]