After some local controversy, Troy, Michigan has a new Hooters Restaurant. Normally, this wouldn’t be news, but the story is worth quoting:

Troy, a high-income city of just 80,000 people and home to the state’s only Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, now has another distinction. It is the only non-resort city of its size to have two Hooters.

Critics are concerned that the restaurants’ scantily clad servers don’t fit the image the city seeks to project in its Big Beaver commercial district.

As cool and clean as a breath of fresh air! These ads are catchy, familiar, and from the vantage point of this century, bizarre as hell. Classic cigarette commercials, today on the veg.

- Looks like the marketing folks at Lost have decided to inject a little pep into the opening credits
- Why is BoingBoing so psyched about a lame advertising tactic that turned into a giant pain in the ass.
- On the flip side, What's it like to be working at NYC guerilla marketing agency Interference today.
- Cracked.com gives us the 10 Gayest Super Bowl halftime shows...a list that definitely could go to 25.
- And last night marked Dave's 25th year, and very first show guest, Bill Murray helped celebrate.

It always seems darker where the spotlight used to shine.

Video game stars are a lot like child actors. One day they wake up a little older, a little less cute. And before you know it, they've disappeared into irrelevance. Not gone but forgotten. Unless of course there's trouble with the law. Or a sex tape.

We're always looking for what's next, all too ready to bury the now. So to honor the video game legends of our youth, Aquaman and I have done tireless research to find out what happened after the proverbial Game Over screen.