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New York: A “Drivers’ Paradise”

By Brad Aaron | | 35 Comments
Move over, biker babes. A presumably tongue-in-cheek article in the Observer heralds the "Californication of New York," thanks to the proliferation of automobiles in "young, lifestyle neighborhoods" like Williamsburg, Astoria and Inwood. According to the piece, a growing number of suburban transplants see auto reliance as a comforting reminder of home. "I didn’t realize how […]

Parallel Parking for Sociopaths

By Brad Aaron | | 10 Comments
Telecommunications giant Sprint recently launched an ad campaign called "Waitless," the gist of which seems to be that one of its plans allows customers unlimited calling two hours earlier than other companies do, thereby saving "four years of waiting over a lifetime." To illustrate the point, sort of, Sprint has a series of short spots depicting […]

General Motors Goes Hollywood

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis points out that the good guys in Transformers are mostly fashioned after GM trucks and SUVs. In her review, Dargis calls the film "part car commercial and part military recruitment ad." She also notes that while the Transformers originated as a toy in Japan, curiously none of these […]

Cancer: Brought to You by the Internets

By Brad Aaron | | 3 Comments
   So this morning I read, and then linked from Streetsblog, a story about how the mythologized "new car smell" is actually caused by a mixture of potentially carcinogenic toxins. A short while later the ad pictured above showed up at the bottom of an incoming e-mail. Guess they’re still working the kinks out of […]
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