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Jul 27, 2015

Do You Know How Your Salary Gets Made?

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May 19, 2014

Mad Men: “It’s Nice to See Family Happiness Again”

by Jen Doll

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Aug 8, 2013

Soap Is the Devil

by Emma Rosenblum

According to this Dove commercial, soap is your skin’s worst enemy. But that’s just the beginning.

Soap is stripping your skin of its essential nutrients.

The Hairpin

Feb 15, 2013

Future Questions in Women’s Advertising

by Emma Rosenblum

Nicole Cliffe in The Hairpin

Jan 4, 2013

The Actual Couple Seem Sweet and Funny

Where slim women and professional men meet and exchange protein strands.

The Hairpin

Sep 21, 2011

Titles of Best-Selling Books Had the Publishing Industry Decided to Do Product Placement

by Lauren Bans and Gabrielle Moss

Nicole Cliffe in The Hairpin

Aug 12, 2011

Lovecraftian is an Underused Adjective

There is something worse than those ads featuring the talking baby.

“I see it — coming here — hell-wind — titan-blur — black wings — Yog-Sothoth save me — the three-lobed burning eye…”

Click through at your own risk.

Nicole Cliffe in The Hairpin

Aug 11, 2011

Pete Townshend Doesn’t Care About Your Memories

…and it’s great. Pete Townshend gives the best interviews ever.

Yesterday that awful Subaru ad that uses “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” by the Pogues was on, which, Jesus, Shane MacGowan does not drive a Subaru…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Aug 4, 2011

An artist sponsored by a German soap company (Bliss, presumably, via Steiner Leisure) installed a “mermaid” in the Alster river in Hamburg this week. As the anchors point out, she is not an actual mermaid but a sculpture of a head and two knees.

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