Category: What's Going On

Motrin Moms update

18 November, 2008 (14:15) | What's Going On | By: Amy

Don’t mess with mom bloggers.  Here’s an update on the whole Motrin ad kerfuffle.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot and wondering if maybe the whole thing wasn’t a bit too, I don’t know, overblown.  The ad was terrible.  It should have been taken down.  But the swiftness of the whole thing scares me a [...]

Getting back on the weight-loss wagon

17 November, 2008 (12:40) | Weight Loss | By: Amy

The last time I lost a significant amount of weight (25lbs, a little over a year ago) I did it by keeping track of everything that went in my mouth for two months (insert your own lewd joke here - my mom reads this blog so I’m not gonna put one in!).  And I continued [...]

The Wrath of the MotrinMoms

17 November, 2008 (10:15) | What's Going On | By: Amy

For anybody who’s not on Twitter, you may have been unaware of the PR disaster that befell Motrin over the past few days. In short, Motrin released this video, and predictably (to everyone by Motrin) moms got pissed.

It’s bad from the very first line: “Wearing your baby seems to be in fashion.”  As if [...]

Filming In Brooklyn in The NY Daily News

16 November, 2008 (14:17) | Self-Promotion | By: Amy

So the NY Daily News article that I’ve been mentioning has finally hit the paper and their website.  There’s also this, plus six of my favorite pictures from FIB’s short history (my God, Salma Hayek is hot).
The only small problem I have with the article is the very end:
“It’s a bit of an annoyance,” said [...]

The post-election let down

7 November, 2008 (14:35) | What's Going On | By: Amy

So here we are, three days after the big election.  And reality is setting in.  First of all, the world didn’t magically change the moment that the election was called.  I’m not sure what I expected to happen, but whatever it was it didn’t.
Then, it hit me that Bush still has more than two months [...]