“Church Merch” - Joel Osteen Game is… in a word… Vacuous

Joel Osteen, poster boy for a new generation of positive and palatable health-wealth Christianity, has long had a book on the bestseller list, Your Best Life Now. I don’t suggest buying it, BTW. You’ll get a pretty good idea of the gist from this blog post, “ChurchMerch - Your Best Life Now: The Game” from [...]

Celebrity Hair Stylists

How in the world is it that every single hair stylist to the stars we see on TV has a foreign accent? And why are they almost exclusively all male?! It’s practically axiomatic that they are all foreign and male. Ever seen a woman doing hair and hawking her hair care products on QVC?! Yeah, [...]

Naming Cell Phones

With all the marketing infrastructure of huge telecommunications conglomerates, why in the world has it taken until now for them to find out it’s a good idea to give cell phones cool names? Instead of SMG-1042XR, they’re giving them names like “Blackjack” and “Chocolate.” This isn’t anything revolutionary or particularly creative, but how in the [...]