Brand Bites: Summertime Blues Edition

• Geico's vlogging, Facebooking, Twittering caveman is in a Debbie Downer mood today (above).

• The upcoming Love and Other Drugs is about a fast-talking, philandering medical salesman. What does he drive? A Porsche ... of course.

• Krispy Kreme doughnut's latest filling: Meat.

• 1984: Gillette offers $1 million to ZZ Top band members to shave iconic beards; band declines.

• 2010: Rise-N-Shine's Go Away Grey offers $1 million to CNN's silver fox Anderson Cooper to darken mane; fans balk.

• Verizon's "Rule the Air" spot aimed at young women irks feminists and net neutrality activists alike.

• "A night in Paris" may become a reality for the mass market as Hilton heirhead contemplates her own hotel chain.

• The better mousetrap of the week: The Screw-In Coffin

• The only thing you'll read all week containing to term "French comic purists."

• Hostess Twinkie, deconstructed.

• Earlier this week we wondered about Best Buy and its "God Squad" trademark dilemma. The new trademark hotness? Warner Brothers' "Harry Popper" condom showdown.

• From the department of My Personal Experience: Eco-friendly Sun Chip bags will make you deaf.

• Lionsgate marketers take Chatroulette for a spin to promote new horror film, The Last Exorcism (warning: strong language):