A SPECIAL AQUIDNECK INQUIRER ENDORSEMENT "now's the time": FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: BARACK OBAMA As we watched Senator Barack Obama speak to a large crowd in Jacksonville, Florida, a city with which some of the staff of The Aquidneck Inquirer has roots, the great "Now&#...

Celebrities using Twitter is all the rage right now.  Rightfully so, it gives them a hungry, always-on audience which they can control the message with.  Something a lot of them might not be used to these days.  Fan favorite, P.Diddy broke on to the Twitter-scene not too long ago in only a way Di...

Until 1983, I could actually blame it on being too thin*; for the next 25 years, it was nothing short of selfish cowardice.  In February of last year, there was a moment of redemption, but just two months after that, exclusion returned.  This time it wasn't self-imposed but rather due to health co...

This previous post got me to thinking that some of you might be interested in traveling down memory lane a bit with regard to Sheriff Leon Lott, since he's recently become nationally famous. As y'all know, I feel a certain kinship for the sheriff (whom we endorsed in the last election). We c...

I remember the first spec ad I ever had designed by a professional. It was for Banana Republic and the headline read, "Clothes for the Urban Jungle." It looked good, but it didn't work hard enough as an ad. According to Ad Age, The Gap-owned brand is still working that basic theme, but they're addin...

This Canadian tween totally calls out 50 Cent for "whoring" himself with all his endorsement deals, and not keeping it real. His action figures and 'stache say: listen up, Fif. This kid is the face of hip hop and we salute him for his beef-starting. Ante up. [via Adrants]...

Open the big book of celebrity endorsement scandals, it's time to make another entry. Swimming star Michael Phelps was just having a bit of fun last November while visiting his girlfriend at the University of South Carolina when, along with all the shots and beer he consumed at a house party that we...

newVideoPlayer("/snl_kellogsphelps_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); As Seth Meyers pointed out on Saturday Night Live last night, Kellogg Company's image is closer to that of bong-smoking Olympian Michael Phelps than the cereal maker likes to admit. Kellogg's Keebler Eleves, after all, "live together in a...

Kellogg dumped merman Michael Phelps after finding out he smokes weed, even though everyone knows Frosted Flakes are so good, toasted. Now it looks like Subway—also great toasted!—is making the same mistake. [Update: Subway statement.] The sandwich chain is yanking Phelps off its website...

Kellogg, in the most boneheaded move in the entire history of all celebrity endorsements ever, is dumping Michael Phelps over his pot photo. Has any brand ever been more out of touch with its customers? Granted, Phelps hasn't been the best spokesman for Kellogg. When CNN anchorhottie Anderson Cooper...