The holidays are coming. So is a Coke AI ad with 70,000 prompts.. It’s not really the ‘real thing.’
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Category: Christmas
The past was not better. It is just that your ‘on demand life’ has killed your holiday feeling
When we pick the videos we want when we want them, we lose the shared experience of watching when we are supposed to..
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AND THEY’RE….HOME! BLACK FRIDAY BECOMES A SHADOW OF ITS ONE SELF
All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money on Black Friday and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.
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Songs that make you cry or sing your way through the Christmas season
We have chosen the hard coal Christmas songs to light up your holiday season. Partially based on what you listen to — and us, as well.
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Tracking the yule log: Should Krampus visit you this year?
War.. pestilence. Pollution. Vanity. Selfishness.. cruelty. Bullying.. Are we guilty? Do we deserve the sharp fangs and the whipping of bird branches from his sack, maybe even being drug into the underworld?
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When Santa went to the mall in 2003 with the Raggin Piano Boogie Man
Yes.. here we go again. Another nostalgic Coal Speaker post about the ‘malls’.. The nonstop posts. The memories. The melodrama that is the shiny halls of yesteryear.
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