Oreo Art: at last!

The last hot day, the weatherpeople say. Rain? Don't be ridiculous. It doesn't rain anymore.

MARKETING Yesterday was Star Trek Day, and before you think I'm late to the story, A) I am, but B) I talked about this last week before it happened. Here's how Oreos celebrated it:

I had no idea Oreos updated their site with such exacting specificity. It's called the Daily Twist, and it commemorates each each in Oreo form. And so it came to pass that I learned about a new ZZ Top album from a Nabisco website. That makes sense nowadays.

It took them four years to make the album, although of course they broke for meals now and then. Billy Gibbons describes it thus:

I thought that's what it might sound like, but couldn't be certain. The album comes out today.

Someone already posted the entire thing on YouTube.

GANGNAM It's over. Psy is still cool, but it's over with this song.

INTERNETS Nipplegate, or how a New Yorker cartoon was rejected by Faceboo

I have a big book of old New Yorker cartoons, which I got at a young age; didn't understand half of them. This one, for example. Coal miners. One of them says "For gosh sakes, here comes Mrs. Roosevelt." Made no sense whatsoever, until you learned that she was noted for her busy travel schedule. Went everywhere, shook hands, met folks, assured them that Franklin felt their plight. Also, this: "Let's go to the Trans-Lux and hiss Roosevelt." (Link goes to Arno's pants-free version, which was not published.) (I'd post the cartoon but permission and rights are spotty, and for all I know someone would sue the paper right out from underneath us, and I'd have that on my conscience.)

Didn't know what a Trans-Lux was, until later. It was a theater chain that showed only newsreels. But that's only part of it. Wikipedia:

That must have seemed marvelously modern, but the Twenties were a time of great technological advances. Everything still looked old, though; that's the odd part. The streamlined look didn't come until later. All those modern innovations wore old clothes. Put it this way: imagine if the first home computer monitors looked like 1950s portable TVs.

Which would have been pretty cool, when you think about it.

If you're thinking 'c'mon, it's time to move on," take heart. Mediabistro notes that there was a moment of silence this morning in New York.