War with Verizon one of attrition
Verizon needs to do a better job reaching its target audience: people with no sense of humor. [This is where, were I feeling particularly mean-spirited, I would suggest several shows whose audiences…
Major development in showdown with Verizon: Victory is Ours! – sort of
I came online after a hiatus of over a day and a half expecting to simply share Change.org’s next gem of wisdom, as I did the last two. I changed my mind not because the email didn’t arrive…
Verizon: Can you hear us now?
“How is Mordechai’s Verizon petition on Change.org doing?” is a question exactly no one is asking, but oh my god I just watched The Daily Show, and that ad played back to back to back and it has to stop. Maybe I should…
Verizon: Stop playing that goddamn Mother’s Day ad
I’m sure you’ve seen it. And I know that because it’s inescapable. It literally cannot be escaped. It comes on during every single goddamn commercial break of every single goddamn show. Do you know…
Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC not all that Super
One consequence of my recently-adjourned month-long sojourn to Israel and the Atlantic Seaboard is that I have fallen uncharacteristically behind on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I’m currently somewhere in late January and am valiantly attempting to make up ground on a daily basis. Where I am in the ‘plot’, a major storyline is … Read more
Some thoughts on Windows Phone, or Proof that I write about what I’m interested in and not what I think will generate clicks
The Puget Sound Business Journal recently ran an article called The Windows Phone App-peal. It’s behind a paywall, and since I don’t imagine that more than one or two of you are subscribers, I’ll share a few of the items that caught my attention. Before I begin, a short disclaimer: I am irrationally into Windows Phones. … Read more
LinkedOut
Two weeks ago, I signed up for LinkedIn only to discover that 1026 of my closest friends had beaten me to it. I’m an adult. I will be a part of this system. I’ve never been so fashionably late. Worse: I noticed that my grandpa already had an account. To give you an idea of what … Read more
Droid Doesn’t (always have the most helpful ads)
With so much recent attention on the now-infamous Israeli advertising debacle, I would like to draw your attention to another campaign, presumably not as offensive but no less insidious. Yes, I’m talking about the barrage of Verizon/Droid ads that have hit the airwaves in recent weeks and months. I’m not going to discuss the sillier … Read more
Official apology to Jon Stewart
Welcome to December. While many people may be preparing for our upcoming celebration of the Miracle of Chanuka (or Christmas, if that happens to be your thing), I would like to draw your attention for a moment to the Miracle of Purim. Specifically, to the events that transpired on this past Wednesday’s episode of The … Read more
