When magazine ads attack

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Good to know that if your magazine starts talking to you (or
your toilet, or your wall—see below), it’s not a sign of incipient
schizophrenia. At least, not anymore. According to this story in The Wall
Street Journal
(it’s part of the online edition’s free content), we are in the
middle of an increasingly intrusive onslaught of print ads that talk, sing,
light up and otherwise cause mayhem, including one for the WB that will appear next month in Rolling Stone and Us Weekly.



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