A regular roundup of stuff that wouldn’t necessarily make it on the blog, but is worth noting:
• And who says social networking isn’t dangerous? An English husband murdered his estranged wife after she changed her Facebook listing to say she was single. The BBC reports that the man was drunk and high on cocaine, and that he beat her, tore out clumps of her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.
• If you’ve noticed that there aren’t as many ads for credit cards on TV, you’re right. Television ad spending declined 24 percent in the first three weeks of September from a year earlier, after rising almost 27 percent the previous two months, according to the Nielsen Co.
• Even those of us who preferred the Temptations will miss Levi Stubbs, the lead singer for the Four Tops. He died last week at the age of 72 after a series of illnesses dating to 2000. The Four Tops were the Temps’ great rival during Motown’s heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s. But the Four Tops never stopped performing, including this, from Sesame Street in the 1980s, and courtesy of YouTube. You can’t beat that choreography.
I wouldn't mind the Credit Card companies doubling their TV ads if they would cut the budget for clogging my mailbox with their credit apps
Posted by: jag | October 21, 2008 at 08:50 AM
oh, and Central Market renovations?
Posted by: jag | October 21, 2008 at 08:51 AM