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My wife and I liked the first season, but we have been struggling a bit with the second. There are so many convenient coincidences, bad decisions and deus ex machina that my wife and I will see something, pause and debate whether it is shaky writing, or a plot point meant to be important later. Read more

My guess is that some edgy art director was trying to go viral and got a nod from the CMO. It backfired because duh, and they decided to call it a mistake. Too many rounds of review in corporate comms for this to be anything but an idiotic strategy.  Read more

Ulta did the right thing by apologizing, but making what everyone clearly agrees is an honest mistake shouldn’t be grounds for getting this type of hateful reaction (especially for what is likely a lower level employee who wasn’t familiar with Kate Spade’s passing). If the whole purpose of the disgust is a call for… Read more

I’d like to give the benefit of the doubt in situations like this because I cannot imagine anyone intentionally meant to make that connection. But still... This one’s pretty bad. Read more

Jeez, who came up with this ad campaign? Anthony Jeselnik? Read more

Obvious mistake, embarrassing but come on already. Read more

I mean I feel like this is a pretty dumb thing to say *even if* she hadn’t died in a tragic way. “Come hang with Betty White!” Like, what? Read more

I know the maxim is all publicity is good publicity, but this seems an unseemly stretch. Read more

I don’t keep track of this stuff, so when I saw this headline I thought that perhaps it was a case of extremely unfortunate timing. Like, maybe she died earlier this week, and in the aftermath someone happened to not check their scheduled news releases. Kinda like when a Joan Rivers sponsored post went out after her… Read more

It’s horrific, but it does happen. When I worked in print marketing we had to pull an advert for a sale on “very efficient” gas ovens that had been put right beside a full-page spread on the holocaust at the eleventh hour because no-one had noticed. Similarly, we definitely had ads for diapers with a tagline that… Read more

What in the allegorical fuck? Yeah, I would be intrigued to know how many people signed off on this marketing email before it went out. Especially since I bet every one of them makes more in a month than my annual income. Read more

“There are just no words for this kind of marketing error.” Read more

Thank you for posting the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at the end of this article.  More people need to be aware it exists, and this month I hope to see it pop up more often.  It’s saved my life.
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The photos of Ms. Hutchinson in this article are stunning. Read more

I have always found ballet classes terrifying and a fertile ground for psychological and often physical abuse.
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You are nearly 40 and just now finding out about Dance Theatre of Harlem? Oh chile …  Read more

I’m very sorry that happened to you at such a young age. If there’s any comfort to be found it’s knowing that all those blue eyed blondes who laughed at you likely have crippling bunions/ foot deformities from being put into Pointe shoes in a beginners class.  Read more

Money talks.   Read more

We all know Cardi B does this in order to control the narrative to how she wants it. So she actually does flee social media in that sense. But she always comes back quickly to overshare until the next incident. Read more