5 Oct
Pete Campbell from Mad Men discusses the genius of Mitch Hedberg, the biology of monogamy, life with Jon Hamm and why he takes the bus everywhere in LA…

This is PART TWO of Lost In A Supermarket’s interview with Vincent Kartheiser of AMC’s Mad Men (click HERE to read PART ONE). Unlike PART ONE of the interview, which was pretty heavy on the Mad Men geekness, this one’s a much more personal look at Kartheiser himself. Hit the Jump to read him discuss […]


1 Oct
Pete Campbell from Mad Men talks about the absurdity of morality, the death of the American Dream, and being part of the Best Show on TV...

You recognize Vincent Kartheiser as Peter Campbell, the utterly obsequious and calculating account executive at Sterling Cooper. You know, that fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency on the much talked about AMC series Mad Men. I didn’t say “much hyped” because hype requires that the product or vehicle receiving the accolades does not deserve them, which […]


This is the day for PSAs I guess — some real, like this one, and some imagined, like the Will Ferrell one below. This one’s a motorcycle awareness safety commercial from Norway directed by Kristoffer Carlin and Lasse Gretlan, and I think it makes its point… From Hellforleather


20 Jul
Was it the inter-racial politics...or the blowjob?

Well no shit this ad was banned in Germany! No matter how liberal and progressive those saurkraut-eating, pilsener-brewing, Rammstein-listening Euros are, there’s no way anything this suggestive is playing on TV. Still, gotta give props to whatever Sprite exec had the balls to ok this one…


You know, 98% of the time I hate advertising — I hate how its getting evermore ubiquitous, and evermore insidious. As devices like Tivo allow us to circumvent the ancient, nearly obsolete Old School Guard of advertising like commercials, advertisers are becoming ever more cunning in inserting their Brand in front of your eyeballs and […]