Archive for April, 2006

Dis-Shirts: Strong Emotions Cost More

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I’ve been making my intentionally ambiguous “Disappointed” shirts for some years now, then today I spotted a surprisingly similar Keanan Duffty shirt displaying a more aggressive sentiment: a grenade flying towards the Magic Kingdom with the word Destroy rendered above. Issues of unoriginality aside, the Destroy shirt will run you $80 but my more elegant and less angry JustinSpace label “Disappointed” shirt is only $20 ($22 with shipping).

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Crazy Mayoral Candidate Poses in Fake City

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I realize New Orleans has seen better days, but if you’re running for Mayor of that city you should probably pose in the real thing, and not, as Kimberly Williamson Butler has done here, pose in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square.

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UPDATE: Her slogan is “The end of politics as usual.” I couldn’t agree more. Oh we’re having fun with this. Her mayoral campaign has expanded to other lands and even New York
And now Keith Olbermann, Arianna Huffington, and some British paper are all running with it. I’ll pat myself on the back for breaking the story of Crazy Lady Running for New Orleans Mayor.UPDATE: Readers noticed the Disneyland trashcan in the photo has now been Photoshopped out but the photo still remains on her site. And previous evidence of the digitally blurred Blue Bayou restaurant sign seems to indicate the campaign knew from the get-go this was not an actual New Orleans setting. Some one please get her on a morning talk show ­ put her in front of a green screen and change her backgrounds throughout the interview.
UPDATE: It’s all done now - she finally changed the photo to something not fake, so sad.

Snakes on a Plane: Been Done

Friday, April 7th, 2006

To think twenty-some years ago the whole snakes on a plane idea was explored on-screen for only fifteen seconds when it could have been a full two-hour feature. Nazis, buried treasure, and the supernatural just cluttered the concept really.