The Casual Manifesto Graveyard

In ad school I fell in love with writing manifestos, convinced they'd be as crucial to my success as '80s movies had convinced me evading quicksand would be to my survival.

At least quicksand still exists in nature.

  • Titanic

    Titanic is what happens when Bill Paxton - our nation's most earnest disaster enthusiast - takes his robot submarine on a treasure hunt and dredges up a 101-year-old Rose with an emotional support fish to recount her trauma. She reminisces about watching 1,500 people (including her boyfriend of four days that meant more to her than her husband ever would) freeze to death - because understocking lifeboats was just another thoughtful design choice, like the orchestral accompaniment to mass drowning. Billy Zane plays rich psychopath so convincingly that Hollywood collectively forgets he was acting, while Molly Brown proves new money beats old money by being the only passenger with both a designer wardrobe and basic human decency. After spending 84 years living her best widow life, Rose casually tosses a multi-million dollar diamond into the sea—perfectly walking the line between catharsis and ocean littering. Between the rich demanding brandy as the water rises and endless debates about door logistics in hypothermia conditions, it's remarkable anyone remembers the actual 1,500 deaths.

  • Antique Vibrator Museum

    When Victorian doctors declared "hysteria" a diagnosis for everything from critical thinking to simply being female, they accidentally sparked medicine's greatest invention. After all, no one's building museums for Antique Boyfriends—not when these "treatments" led to the real breakthrough. From medical offices to Sears catalog pages squeezed between butter churns and rolling pins, these "personal massagers" became the electric revolution nobody expected. These devices didn't just "cure" hysteria—they helped women take pleasure into their own hands. The Antique Vibrator Museum: where Victorian repression got flipped on—and a stimulating history began.

  • Royal Caribbean

    Heed the whisper of the wind, fellow wanderer. Feel the salt-kissed breeze tousle your hair as you stand at the bow of your Royal Caribbean vessel, eyes fixed on the horizon where myth and reality blur. Here, on these vast azure plains, your tale unfolds with each cresting wave.

    Will you soar through the air on thrilling zip lines, suspended between sea and sky, as you chase the sun's golden trail? Or dive into depths where ancient leviathans slumber, their tentacles weaving mysteries in the inky black? From Broadway-caliber shows to culinary adventures that tantalize your taste buds, your quill etches the story, your choices steer the ship. So cast off the lines of the mundane and set sail for the extraordinary. For on this Royal Caribbean journey of endless possibility, you are both the author and the hero. Chart your own course.


  • Oxi Clean

    You go to work. You drink your coffee. Everything is fine, until it isn't. Because now your coffee is on your shirt in the client meeting, and they're staring. Cold sweat beads down your forehead as you realize every glance is a judgment. You can hear whispers of your failure: "Can you imagine? Showing us incompetence before we even start the pitch?" You can't hold a coffee correctly - why would anyone give you responsibility? There's no trusting someone who accessorizes with breakfast. This isn't your shirt anymore. It's a stain on your permanent record. You must escape with what's left of your dignity, that scarlet coffee stain becoming more obvious every second. The evidence is right there, soaking through the fabric of your career.

    OxiClean removes more than stains. It removes doubt.

    Stop the stain spiral.


  • Vaseline

    Your $22 burger sits naked and alone on its vast white plate. Then your dead MeeMaw's Facebook account invites you to play Candy Crush, while your third job interview reschedules for the fifth time. And that's the last straw - you didn't even know straws were still legal.

    Does it even matter if it's your phone trapped in the car at a QR-only restaurant or a sniper loose in your city? The emergency alerts don't even make you flinch anymore. Each crisis blurs into the next until everything feels like too much and nothing at all.

    Deep in your bathroom drawer, behind three expired COVID tests and that skincare routine you abandoned after the last recession, it's there. When your phone keeps asking if you're still human and your therapy chatbot crashes mid-existential crisis, you can still twist off that blue lid and find the exact same slick comfort. The last analog lifeline in a world of forced updates. Your last defense against a world determined to leave you raw.

    Apply before you break.