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Whoever came up with this ad deserves an award.  This spot is brilliant, tragicomic, heart-tugging, funny, and beautiful.  Publix has a long history of having great commercials and this is one of their best.

Growing up I thought that people whose birthdays fell on Christmas must be so lucky, because it meant that they got more toys.  Watching poor Isabelle suffer from being a Christmas baby makes me greatly regret having that notion.  May all who were born on Christmas have a birthday just as wonderful as this young lady’s 🙂 ...

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The Knight Shift is proud to welcome a new advertiser, and if you’ve been a longtime reader you’ll already know something about HyperMind.

A positivalutely abundawonderful game store in Burlington, North Carolina, owners Nick and Denise Shepherd have established a place that draws loyal customers from as far away as Virginia, Raleigh/Durham and Winston-Salem.  And by “games” we’re talking about the old-fashioned stuff that doesn’t require batteries or a specialized console… but does require you to play with others and have fun.

Whether you’re looking for time-honored pastimes like Monopoly and Risk, or new classics such as The Settlers of Catan, HyperMind has something for everyone.  They also stock a healthy amount of miniatures-based games (including my current drug of choice, X-Wing Miniatures).  One of the biggest sellers is perennial favorite Magic: The Gathering.  And HyperMind goes all-out to provide for its devoted players, with an ample stockpile of ...

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If you have a product or service and you would like to reach an average audience of 20,000 viewers a month*, please consider this blog as a venue for your advertising.  I am very thankful that the The Knight Shift’s readership represents so vast a variety of interests and backgrounds.  And you can reach out to them!  Write to me at theknightshift@gmail.com with “Advertise on The Knight Shift” in the subject line, and let’s get started.  I’m looking forward to working with you to build your brand and give you solid results.

http://www.sweetwick.com/And now, I am proud to announce that this blog has two new sponsors!  The first is Sweet Wick Candle Company.  Makers of fine hand-crafted candles infused with the best of fragrances, the good people at Sweet Wick are dedicated to the art of creating their products to be as much a beauty to look at ...

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It’s stuff like this that reminds me of something: we’re not all that different from people a century ago.  Far longer than that even.  We laugh at this sort of thing today, but a hundred years from now our great-grandchildren will be looking at our ads for vacuum cleaners and light beer and wonder: “What the hell were they thinking??“

I don’t think geography has anything to do with it: humanity tends to do wacky things in the pursuit of profit no matter where it’s at.  So it was with our Russian friends in the years leading up to the October Revolution and then the early Soviet era.  And now io9 has compiled a collection of “The Oddest Soviet Ads From The Late 19th And Early 20th Century”.  There are many ads for cigarettes (see image) and other tobacco products,  but also for wine, gunpowder and soap.  ...

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I believe that homosexuality and bisexuality is just as wrong as heterosexual extramarital intercourse, rape and polygamy and for the same reasons.

Do I have gay and lesbian friends?  Yup, sure do.  Plenty of them in fact.  They already know that I cannot approve with a sincere heart the behavior they engage in.  They also already know that though I must judge as wrong that behavior, I cannot judge them wrong as people.  Certainly not as the friends who I am thankful to have.

I don’t believe that “homosexual marriage” is wrong.  I know that it is.  The notion itself is a contradiction against logic and human culture.  “Marriage” entails the uniting of two unique characteristics into one, so that the the sum is greater than the equal of its constituent parts.  That is something among human society that can only be found in the uniting of one man and ...

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This is a momentous day for The Knight Shift! Yours Truly is proud to announce the very first business to contact this blog for advertising.

So without further ado, it is my great honor to direct your attention to The Detailed Decorator LLC, based in Atlanta, Georgia!

Owned and operated by Jaime Casstevens, The Detailed Decorator specializes in finding unique interior decor custom-tailored for each customer. In her own words, Jaime says that…

The Detailed Decorator was created with YOU in mind. Do you not know what accessory to buy for your home? Do you not have the time to go shopping? Let The Detailed Decorator do it for you.

From shopping in exclusive stores to just looking for something you couldn’t find anywhere else, we are here to help. We specialize in personalized shopping to meet all of your home decorating needs.

The customer is our #1 priority.

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BioShock 2 may have been pushed back to next year but that’s not keeping 2K’s PR team from going to some extraordinary lengths of viral marketing for the much-anticipated game. This past week a mysterious note appeared on the game’s teaser site listing numerous beaches around the world and a time to be there… which was yesterday morning.

This was the scene at Australia’s Bondi Beach, where BioShock fans found dozens of wine bottles (from Arcadia itself) washed up on the shore. Within each bottle was one of several posters from Rapture, including this advertisement for Andrew Ryan Industries. Kotaku has photos of more discoveries. And wouldn’t you know it, but the Rapture wine bottles are already fetching a pretty price on eBay.

BioShock 2 is due sometime next year. Hopefully sooner than later....

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Could it possibly be because of a certain anti-Barack Obama sign that WGSR general manager Charles Roark devoted obscene amounts of airplay and screentime to this past Friday afternoon, and then again on Monday?

The answer to that question is, evidently, “yes”.

Old Dutch Galaxy had been a major advertiser for WGSR. A chain of four grocery stores around the Danville and Chatham area in Virginia, Old Dutch Galaxy had been running updated commercials every week (on a station that was still running spots for the Reidsville Christmas parade last week, mind ya…).

But the word from our friends around south-central Virginia, is that Roark’s constant harping about a sign calling Obama a “bastard” and his mother a “slut” was way over the top and into the realm of completely inappropriate behavior.

I doubt that this lesson will be anything but lost on Charles Roark, who has abandoned responsible broadcasting ...

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See those ads for John McCain that pops up every now and then? I didn’t put them there. Didn’t want them and don’t ever want them. In a few hours they should hopefully go away for good.

This blog will not be used to promote any presidential candidates. Unless there is one that really, really impresses me with sincerity, humbleness and ability. But that will not be John McCain or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or just about any of the other “front-runners” we’re supposed to buy into.

Up ’til now, the ads that have appeared on this blog, I really didn’t give much thought to them. That’s changing starting now. If there is an ad for something that I don’t approve of that’s appearing on here, it’s going to get zapped off the site....

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