November 2007
My Halloween playlist
The Adams Family
Bad Dream Eddy Clearwater
Bad Dream Violent Femmes
Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead XTC
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen Santana
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) Concrete Blonde
Candy Iggy Pop
Creep Skandalous All-Stars
Dead Man’s Party Oingo Boingo
Do You Believe In Magic Lovin’ Spoonful
(Don’t Fear)...
October 2007
Damn, too late this year but next year remind me of my halloween idea: “Bush masks for the homeless”.
Saw a Walmart commercial the other night that reminded me of a Chris Rock comedy bit. The whole commercial was about how they provided health care for their employees. How bad is our health care system when that is a commercial? The Chris Rock bit was making fun of those who say “I take care of my kids”… his point was do you want a medal for doing what you are supposed to do?
10 Reasons To Hate Cellphone Carriers →
Great Wired article.
“I think whoever calls the shots for where (Bush) is going to land was being...”
– A quote from this article in the Cincinnati Post talking about Bush flying into Lunken airport instead of Greater Cincinnati. I think some of us know who that might be :-)
“If they can keep us fighting about marriage and god, there’ll be no one...”
– Lyric from Catie Curtis song “People Look Around” from the album Long Night Moon.
ars technica's leopard in depth review →
Steve Lopez is one reason we almost kept getting the Los Angeles Times. Out of control delivery problems, forcing customers to take Friday’s paper when they only want the weekend, and relentless marketing phone calls killed that. Anyway, Steve Lopez has written an article about the people comparing Sand Diego fire evacuations to Katrina: Katrina comparisons are a different class of wrong
“President Bush luckily came [to Southern California] and he declared California...”
– Bill Maher on his Oct. 26, 2007 HBO show
FOX news anchor or porn star? →
My nephew is 21 today, friend’s kid is 6 and another turns 2 tomorrow. Wow!
Car had ash on it this morning, slight smell of smoke in air. Saw Qualcomm stadium today on news where they are housing 15,000+ people displaced by the fires in San Diego. Hard not to draw comparisons to Superdome/Katrina. They said they have stopped accepting aid at Qualcomm because they have plenty and the...
Can you cancel a cel phone contract because you think their advertising campaign is awful? I greatly dislike the AT&T ads with combining places names.
Imus, NABJ, etc.
Al Sharpton and the National Association of Black Journalists are up in arms over Citadel Broadcasting putting Imus back on the air. I subscribe to Newsblues, that puts it in perspective:
We’re still scratching our heads over these recent developments. Religious leaders and journalists acting together as arbiters of good taste, determining who can work and who can’t, demanding...
iPhones on TV
iPhones have been showing up on almost every prime time TV show. We spotted them on “How I met your Mother”, “Chuck” and “Two and a Half Men”.
Charlie Sheen had some reality issues as he answered with a tap rather than a slide and the unit was shown illuminating the side of his face as he used it when we all know the proximity sensor would have turned off the...
Interesting Marketing
During a Bears football game we watch the HD feed on DirecTv and listen to the Chicago radio call on Sirius Radio. Sirius does not carry the commercials in this feed instead covers them with Sirius promos. This week they included a promo for OutQ - the gay channel - for “Humorless Lesbian Month on the Diana Cage Show”.
From the Sirius web site: All month long, Diana and her...
http://devinhesterisridiculous.com/ →
Iron Jeff
Tonight’s ingredient - Ahi Tuna! We seared up some beautiful Ahi with a side dish of toasted Polenta with cheese and Italian seasoning. Damn good if I do say so. Come visit, we’ll sear some up for you!
Shopping... our way
Shop, cocktail, repeat… eventually eliminate the shopping part. That’s the way we like it. Someone smarter than us decided Century Mall needed a Pink Taco. Excellent idea.
Fake names?
Do employees of car dealerships use fake names in LA?
First car we bought in Los Angeles was from a saleman named Johnny Pacific.
Second one was from Leroy Love.
This week our car was serviced by Willie Rocket.
The state of TV today:
Dialogue from “Big Shots”:
“You got a knobber from a tranny!”
Dialogue from “My Name is Earl”:
“Whoa, check out the vagina on Al Roker!”
Iron Chef secret ingredient: Frozen Peas!
What is the world coming to?
Bionics
I’m sorry! I grew up watching one Jamie Summers - can’t help liking the new one.
Nothing matters but the weekend...
on fridays I should just pack a rum thermos
mentally I do…
Daily show last night… wow! Great! Lynne Cheney as guest. If you missed it just go to dailyshow.com and watch the clips.
WatchThe entire Daily Show last night was great (and tonight he has Lynne Cheney!) Another clip…
WatchWhat Chevy Chase did in the 70’s was made us laugh at current events, clearly from the SNL appearance he cannot do that anymore… but thankfully Lewis Black can.
Chevy Chase on SNL…. really??? Wow.
XM / Sirius merger article →
Cool Historic Billboard Photos →