Saturday, December 04, 2004

shoe marketing, video games and evil chain stores

Stories like thse are the reason I created this blog. All from salon.com

Air Jordans
What changed leisure footwear forever and created the wonderful, hideous behemoth of contemporary consumer culture? It's gotta be da shoes.
Related: Check out some of MJ's footwear and notable shoes of the past at NBA.com.

Pac-Man
With its canary-yellow Everyblob hero, its masterfully simple design and its abstract realm where even death was a cheerful event, Pac-Man brought video gaming out of the bars and into the malls.

On sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies!
What a deal! Crush your individuality at state-of-the-art chain stores!

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