Tag: christmas

November 17, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

The state of our Christmas: Coke promises to be the real thing except when it uses AI advertising

The holidays are coming. So is a Coke AI ad with 70,000 prompts.. It’s not really the ‘real thing.’

November 1, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

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..

December 25, 2024 THE COAL SPEAKER

Let’s all join together and hawk tuah on ’24

Every year has its defining moments, but what happens when there are too many? When the deluge becomes too much to process, leaving us mentally drowning as we try to look back on the past twelve months?

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.

December 9, 2023 THE COAL SPEAKER

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.

December 2, 2023 THE COAL SPEAKER

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?