The New Yorker Inane Ad of the Week site proclaims: “Each week this site highlights an especially absurd advertisement from the pages of the militantly bourgeois
New Yorker magazine. The selected advertisements evince the ridiculous excesses of our consumer culture.
They target an audience with a disgustingly high rate of disposable income and hawk to it the most frivolous
of baubles, endeavoring to engender — and promising, for a hefty sum, to gratify — desires nobody could have
developed on her or his own. So check this URL every seven days for a new, hilarious, hyperbolic example of
decadent consumerism.”