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  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    The McDonald's Channel: Fast Food HDTV

    ​ The reprogramming of America just keeps getting scarier. First Oprah launched her own television channel (OWN), and now McDonald's is doing the same. Not on your home HDTV (yet), but in its own restaurants. The McDonalds Channel (McDTV, doubtless) will soon be in some 800 California restaura ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs

    ​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Not HIS "American Girl": Tom Petty Beefs With Michele Bachmann?

    ​Apple pie and baseball? Nah, what's more American is good ol' fashioned political beef. We'd rather splash around in the we-know-why-it's-tepid kiddie than that cesspool, but Tom Petty supposedly issuing a cease and desist letter to Republican candidate Michele Bachmann over her use of "Ameri ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 17, 2010

    The Tyranny of the New

    Why the future of books might be old books

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    World's Smallest Postal Service: How Small Can You Write?

    ​ Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs runs the World's Smallest Postal Service. She turns your regular-sized sentiments into very tiny letters. She says she has no plans yet to come to Los Angeles, but would certainly love to. If you'd like to see her here, send her an email. Or write her a lett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Mattel's African-American Dolls Not Black Enough For Some

    Mattel​Some African-American parents aren't happy with Mattel and the El Segundo toy giant's "So in Style" toys, its first line of black dolls, which have the size and shape of its Barbie line. While parents of all backgrounds have debated about the anorexic shape of Barbie, some black parents ... More >>

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