HBO’s Treme: Food Focus, Art Imitating Life…

Last Sunday in The New York Times, there was an interesting story about how the focus on food in this season’s HBO show “Treme.” One of the story lines this year follows a New Orleans chef, Janette Desautel, as she tries to make a go of it in New York… more »

Dewing Skate Pinball…

David Kiefaber of AdWeek’s AdFreak pointed out this really cool creation: The Mountain Dew Skate-Pinball park in New Zealand. He wrote how Mountain Dew partnered with skateboarders Haimona Ngata, Brett Band and Mike Bancroft to build a skate park in New Zealand that resembles a giant pinball machine. They even… more »

Mad as Hell: Grand Rapids Fights Back with Lip Dub

Grand Rapids Michigan’s “Mad as Hell” moment has been captured in a nearly 10 minute video that has garnered over 2 million hits in just one week. It all started with a story in Newsweek that had Grand Rapids ranked 10th in a list of dying cities in America. Note:… more »

Pearls on Career Path…

Today’s Pearls Before Swine strip is a keeper.  Anyone who has worked a corporate job with that feeling that “there’s more to life than this,” can relate. ###

Punchy Gets a Refresh…

At first I was taken aback that there had been changes to Punchy — the spokes-mascot for Hawaiian Punch. According to this story, the new refreshed Punchy now features the hang-ten hand gesture instead of a punch and will portray a more energetic and playful personality than the feisty attitude… more »