Ok, nobody has gone that far yet.  But can we please drop this ridiculous fiction that Michael Jackson was the first Black artist on MTV. Somehow in all of these tributes and hastily produced retrospectives, The King of Pop is being hailed as the Jackie Robinson of the music video era.  WRONG. Its bad enough [...]

On Monday, the national press picks up that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been missing for four days.  Well… not missing per say.  His wife wasn’t concerned.  Jenny Sanford told the Associated Press she wasn’t worried.  “He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids,” she said while vacationing [...]

Let’s talk about the tempest in a teapot that is the Dante’s Inferno video game protest.  Now being in the entertainment industry, a lapsed Catholic, and a gamer myself I find the whole thing rather comical.  A couple of weeks ago, there was a protest rally outside of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los [...]

On location in New York City this week filming “Remember Me”, Twilight star Robert Pattinson was hit by a taxi as he tried to run away from a crowd of hysterical teenage fans. Flanked by five security guards, the British actor tried to run past the teen mob to reach the safety of his trailer [...]

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before.  18 year old Kimberley Vlaminck strolled into a tattoo parlor in Belgium to get three tasteful stars on her face. Supposedly she fell asleep in the chair of tattoo artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, only to wake up to 56 stars on her face! Now she’ll have to spend [...]

Check out the clip below, its fun.  Its cheeky (literally).  Air New Zealand has conveyed the message that affordable travel can be sexy and fun. Its a nice break from the complete drudgery that air travel has become. To be fair Southwest did try and bring fun back with their “Wanna Get Away” campaign– yet [...]

Can somebody please explain to me why every time a new iPhone comes out everyone with an old iPhone bitches about not getting a reduced price? No one bitches when a new Honda Insight comes out or a new Sony Bravia TV. Nowhere else can you or would you consider whining about not getting a [...]

I’ve been under the weather this week, so stringing together cohesive thoughts has been difficult.  I think I’m going to finish off this week’s 80s theme with some memorable commercials that were seared into my brain by wanna be Don Drapers on Madison Avenue. The ode to the working woman, Enjoli perfume ad featuring Peggy [...]

Its nostalgia week here in the JSA offices.  It started with a visit to the man who made the 1980s possible, President Ronald Reagan.  And now it continues with a look at the art form that was perfected in the 1980s, the music video.  A long time ago, there was a channel called MTV that [...]