Steven Rosenberg: November 2011 Archives

A Kohl's Black Friday parody ad inspired the following from Gizmodo's Mat Honan in reaction to the ad and Kohl's in particular, and the consumer culture in general.

It a sentence for all (holiday) seasons:

It makes me want to get rid of all the crap I've already bought, to throw all my shit out into the street and set it on fire and shed my clothes and run naked through the neighborhood with a goddamn hammer smashing out all the lights and setting all the dogs free and upending all the mailboxes and cutting the power lines down and stuffing the HVAC systems with leaves and throwing dead fish in the vents and just going utterly feral as I let my hair grow out long and my teeth rot from my mouth because when I see cynical appeals to shop shop shop, done with a knowing wink to how utterly vapid and annoying the commercial itself is, without caring that it's like a steel toe boot to the teeth because it's got an earworm that will burrow itself into your head until you find yourself standing outside of a fucking Kohl's store at eleven thirty on a Thursday night when you should be at home in bed after spending a lovely day with your family, I worry that we are at the very end of America and I think that you, Kohl's, you are the Lt. John Pike of television advertising spraying me with your indifferent contempt and I wish you nothing but failure and a grim season of declining sales and the flu.

Read the original entry and see the "parody" video.

Across the street from the under-construction Chipotle at the corner of Van Nuys and Burbank boulevards on Van Nuys Auto Row, the abandoned Rydell Chevrolet is set to become a CVS drugstore.

The posted notice of CVS' intent to sell alcoholic beverages reveals the new tenant.

Fresh Mex chain Chipotle is coming to the former Keyboard Concepts space at 5600 Van Nuys Blvd. (at Burbank Boulevard).

Remodeling of the space is under way. Plans seen through the window a couple of weeks ago show the space being divided into at least four individual spaces, the largest of which is to become the Chipotle.

Like the CVS set to open across Van Nuys Boulevard, Chipotle has posted its intent to sell alcoholic beverages.

Keyboard Concepts moved one block south to the smaller space vacated by Vista Paint, which moved into the Petco-anchored center at Sepulveda Boulevard and Hatteras Street.