At first, even the people at Pabst — which has barely advertised for more than 20 years — were at a loss. But any trend with even the slightest commercial implications in the American marketplace immediately becomes subject to two iron laws. The first is that it will attract a swarm of consultants, marketers and journalists, trying to deduce the... - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
We see it as an acknowledgment by the leading baby video company that baby videos are not educational, and we hope other baby media companies will follow suit by offering refunds, - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
A bildungsroman is a coming-of-age kind of novel. It arose during the German Enlightenment, and in it, the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a usually young main character (the protagonist) - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
"The general public educating themselves about health care issues relevant to their lives and situations = good. The general public being expected to be able to diagnose, treat, or understand medicine in a way even remotely comparable to a professional = bad for the economy, public health, and disease treatment and prevention."
- ben
In April 2006 it was reported that Webb had written a sequel to The Graduate, entitled Home School, but refused to publish it in its entirety because of a copyright loophole. When he sold the film rights to The Graduate in the 1960s, Webb also surrendered the film rights to any sequels. - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
"He and music legend [Emmylou Harris](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) were performing a single-acoustic-guitar duet song dedicated to a mutual friend who had just died. A drunk person (very cleverly) yelled "Summer of '69!!! WOO!" during their harmonizing. Ryan Adams jumped off stage, punched the guy in the face, and refunded him the ticket cost from cash in his pocket. Yeah, what a *princess*."
- ben
She then starts singing “The Fame” in a remix version of the song while riding a Vespa and wearing a hat made of toppled dominoes. - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
being called a ‘political elitist’ means being smart enough to realize what the real elitists are doing to the person you’ve just spoken to - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
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grooveshark loves you! on Vimeo (via Ben Westermann-Clark)
a song i wrote for all the amazing grooveshark users - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
Dolphin copulation happens belly to belly and though many species engage in lengthy foreplay, the actual act is usually only brief, but may be repeated several times within a short timespan - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
Yet, the strategic fit between Twitter and the NYT is hard to ignore. And, conversely, if Google snaps up Twitter instead, it likely really will be the end of newspapers as we know them. - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...
After the introduction of the beverage in March 2003, there was controversy over the strategy of marketing agency Richards Interactive to capitalize on the then-novel weblog phenomenon. Along with whimsical blogs “authored” by the product’s barnyard mascots, six teenagers were hired to promote the drink in otherwise authentic blogs. - http://bwc.tumblr.com/post...