An open letter to Izzy, Slash, and Duff

I received the "new" Guns N' Roses CD Chinese Democracy as a birthday present, but waited weeks to open it because of all the bad reviews.

And the reviewers were right. After 17 years, no album could live up to expectations. We've all changed too much. And hearing a CD as bloated, overproduced, and lyrically-challenged as this one just what my "Appetite" for days gone by.

Still, I have to admit it was good to hear Axl's voice again after all these years.

So whattaya say, guys? Izzy? Slash? Duff? There's still time to get together and do it right. I mean, it's got to be better than doing VW commercials (with a VW logo on your guitar for Christ sakes!).

Right?

Sometimes advertising doesn't suck--it's merely the marketing.

These ads for the VW Routan are kind of cute. A "mockumentary" where Brooke warns not to have babies just to get "German engineering." Except, as revealed in this Sunday's New York Times, the Routan isn't actually a Volkswagon product. It's a rebadged Chrysler! Holy crap!

Read it here.

How pissed would you be if you paid top dollar for a Routan, only to discover you had been hoodwinked into buying a freakin' Chrysler? Not since Honda slapped their logo on a crappy Isuzu and called it a Passport has the public been so shamelessly hoodwinked.

Marketers suck.