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Please Keep Our Dead Heroes Out Of Your Freaking Ads

There's nothing that will tear your heart out quicker than seeing one of your immortal heroes decide to sell out. Hearing the "conscious" rapper KRS-ONE declaring "The revolution is basketball" in a Nike ad back in the 90's was a particularly dark day for me. But at least living people havethe free will to decide to sell out. An even more despicable practice is waiting until an icon is dead, then pimping their image out to the highest bidder. Some responsibility falls on whoever licensed their image for commercial use. Some of it falls on us, the consumers, for making these campaigns financially worthwhile. But most of it falls on the damn ad people who co-opt someone's cool without their attendant philosophy. And now that Gonzo extraordinaire Hunter Thompson has popped up in a Converse ad, it's time for some serious boycott action. Some things just aren't right. Right? More »

2:03 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Sid & Nancy En Suite

This week's Time Out New York is full of chirpy advice about crime-themed "staycations," where one can exult in the city's summertime calm by seeking out locales famous for scandal, pain, suffering, and/or death. For example:
Check into Hotel Chelsea (222 W 23rd St -between Seventh and Eighth Aves, 212-243-3700); see if they'll give you room 100, where Sid Vicious offed Nancy Spungen in 1978.
There's a slight problem, however, as noted by the Living with Legends blog:
Some guests still request Room 100, "strangely enough," says longtime managing director Stanley Bard. It isn't available, however, because the room became part of a larger suite in a renovation 20 or so years ago.
Guess you could always just go bother Ethan Hawke. More »

2:10 PM on Mon Jul 10 2006
By Chris Mohney
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