Missing Person: Benny the Bellman

If the image above is confusing, it’s simply reflective of a confusing situation, for which I have no explanation — and, oddly enough, I don’t mean that sarcastically, I literally don’t know what’s going on as there is no information online and the one lead I had did not reply to my queries. The new hotels.com logo on the upper-left corner of the After section was first leaked at trademork.com back in early February when the Expedia, Inc.-owned reservation service filed a trademark registry with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; shortly after, it appeared in a TV commercial; and only this past week the logo was reflected in the hotels.com web site, with no fanfare whatsoever — the logo was designed by TBWA \ Chiat \ Day (they won the account