A round-up of the wildest ridiculous whatnot found on the web.
No, really, this is serious
- Fast food workers are striking, as well they should. If pay rates kept up with productivity, they’d be making $20 an hour.
- The Trans-Pacific Parnership global trade deal packages little bits of evil inside, like restricting GMO labels, reducing cigarette companies’ liability, and decimating free internet is thisclose to being signed. A massive petition’s trying to stop it. Sign it here.
- Gay rights in Russia continue to be trampled. Legitimizing hate. Destroying lives. Violent attacks on the rise. Russia, get it together.
- Some good news! Pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates for US teens are at an all-time low. Keep safe sexting, little ones (shudder).
Advertising stuff
- Google’s going to start Tweeting for you. Because authentic communication is overrated.
- Mannequins remodeled to reflect differently-abled bodies— inspiring, touching, necessary.
- Yay for art partnerships! Brazilian brothers/ art duo Los Gemeos partnered with Hennessy for a limited edition bottle design.
- Mazda is killing pre-show movie theater advertising with their pre-show mobile game. I want to do this. Now.
- We hate pre-roll ads, don’t we? Burger King knows. Clever self-aware messaging references how much ads suck, yet blatantly sells burgers. Love it.
Funny ha-ha
- You sick, sweaty, amateur mouth breathers, get out of my yoga class.
- The Dear Prudence advice column is one of my favorite things. People and their stupid issues. This one about a polyamorous daughter bringing two dudes home for Christmas is a world of wonder.
- Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty is killing it. The out-of-home ads are supersick, and the show is wicked rad. Watch the first episode; get hooked.
- While the holidays have passed, my annual obsessive viewing of The Divine David and his mentally deranged holiday decorating tips has not ended. Love you, psychopath. Not for children.
xo, suzymae