Mr Trivia’s Magic 8 Ball
The YouTube ad for my amazingly inaccurate Monthly Horoscope. Check it out and get questionable guidance for this Yuletide Season. Mr Trivia
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Remembering Soy Bomb
The Grammy’s 1998. Bob Dylan sings the song Love Sick. He is upstaged by a shirtless man who manages to get past security and then proceeds to dance in a show-stopping bizarre manner. The man is a performance artist called Michael Portnoy and he has the words “Soy Bomb” written across his chest.
Marketing Can Make Anything Lame
Hi Zeities, Virgin Mobile had a cool idea. Get Vanilla Ice (aka Robbie Van Winkle) to apologise on video about his musical career. Stick it on YouTube and then encourage us to go to a site called rightmusicwrongs.org. When you get there you find a chart of questionable music drawn from the last 30 years Read more
We’ve Got Your Back!
Seen the latest the Pepsi Max ads? According to the spiel on YouTube they are created by CLM BBDO, Paris (lead agency for Pepsis soft drinks worldwide excluding North America), and directed by Matthijs van Heijningen. It goes further to say that the new Pepsi Max commercials are set against a backdrop of situations that Read more
Barry Bostwick!
Fellow Zeiters, So what’s with the photo of the excellent Barry Bostwick? I’m glad you asked. I am renovating this site in small ways over the next few weeks. So if you see a pile of plaster dust in one corner and an unattended nail-gun ‘neath a plank you’ll know why. The sharp-eyed among you Read more
Status Quo
Yo Zeities! Sorry to exclude those of you not part of the burgeoning and yet collapsing world of Facebook. This fading fad is disappearing like lemon-juice ink drying on notepaper, but paradoxically it continues to suck in all you know and love. Like a Zeigeistian Black Hole it draws in even those who have no Read more
Retro Starts Here
Okay, This site and the associated blog are retro shrines. I believe that Pop Culture is more worthy of comment when it’s sat and matured at the back of that fridge that we like to refer to as Zeitgeist. Yep, Zeitgeist as a refrigerator. You heard that tortured literary device right here. However, today I’m Read more
Etiquette Can Save Us
My Fellow Zeitgeisters, World. Handbasket. Hell. You know where we’re headed. However, maybe we can arrest out civilization’s decline with some good old fashioned mannerly conduct, courtesy and a code of behaviour that will give the queue-jumpers, lane-cutters and talkers-during-the-movie some kind of clue as to their appalling lack of couth. Wind the Swatch back Read more
Only A ‘Phone Call Away
Hail Zeitys, Here’s that plug I told you about in the last post. If you’re in Perth, Western Australia and you have little tikes somewhere between the ages of 8-12, then you could take them along to play Telechase. It’s a location-based game – that requires a blue-tooth enabled mobile, your brain and a couple Read more
