by sumac | Jan 12, 2017 | Corporate Apologies
Someone has the job of providing enticing little tags or slogans to advertise Simplicity’s sewing patterns. Someone else has the job of approving those tags. Or not. Apparently quite a few of these someones are narrowly clued. Someone asked, How shall we present...
by sumac | Feb 22, 2015 | Artistic apologies, Bropology, Celebrity Apologies
Rebecca Mock is an illustrator. You can see her work on her website. I love “A Year in Trees”, an animation she did for the NY Times Sunday Review. I bet they paid her. The “Aftershocks” is cool, and a little alarming. She did that for Medium.com. I bet they paid her....
by snarly | Mar 17, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Musical Apologies
I, Snarly, was among those who cringed at Macklemore’s post-Grammies text to Kendrick Lamar. (I have not asked Sumac what she thought, in part because she was probably doing noble bird rescuing while I was watching TV like a lox.) Let’s take a look back,...
by sumac | Jan 1, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies
It’d be nice to start the new year by exalting another good apology. Let’s see. The hiphop band The Roots went on tour in Japan. Drummer Questlove kept up an effervescent beat of reactions. After a while people started calling him racist for Instagram...
by sumac | Nov 4, 2013 | Sports Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Climber Joe Kinder was mapping out a new climbing route in the Sierra Nevada. The location was “an underground crag in the Tahoe region of California.” (Here “underground” does not mean he was spelunking. It means secret, known only to insiders.) Kinder’s a...