American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Eames Polariod SX-70 Commercial

Produced by Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid. Music by Elmer Bernstein. (Tip of the hat to sitandreadfurniture.blogspot.com.)

Revisiting The Lord of the Rings films

I’ve spent the last two days not feeling so great, formatting my hard drive and re-installing Windows on my computer (what a big pain in the ass that is!). So to help ease the time and boredom while installing drivers and software and trying to figure out how the hell to reconnect to my WiFi [...]

50’s Facebook PSA

Stupid Foreign Policy?

“Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars”, By Jeffrey Gettleman in NY Times 4 /12/09 states:
“…[A]ny effort to wipe out Somali pirate dens like Xarardheere or Eyl immediately conjures up the ghost of “Black Hawk Down,” the episode in 1993 when clan militiamen in flip-flops killed 18 American soldiers. Until America can get over that, and [...]

Thoughts on the usefulness of Twitter in PR

Everyone is trying to find uses for Twitter in their marketing. All I can say is “Whoa Nelli!” Slow down there. It’s just another tool! It’s not the coming of the messiah.
I think using a Twitter stream like you’d use press releases, ads or targeted marketing makes for a good use of the medium, [...]

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