Super Bowl Ads
At the Super Bowl party last night, I was amazed at the interest in the advertisements by the other guests. Maybe half the people there even cared about the game at all. The cleverest ad, I thought, was the “Green… Continue Reading
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Parenting Fail
No one should name their children using acronyms. Doing so to honor your favorite professional sports team is a particularly flagrant violation of what should have been an unnecessary-to-enunciate social norm.
How Far You Get With One Piece Of The Puzzle Missing
If you’ve got an elite quarterback, outstanding receiving corps, a fast and aggressive defense, but only a mediocre offensive line, how far do you get? You get a wild card slot and you take the defending conference champions to overtime… Continue Reading
Leave Tiger Woods Be And Brit Hume Too
Brit Hume, a former anchor and host and still part-time commentator on Fox News, suggested over the weekend that Tiger Woods should become a Christian. He [Hume] is under criticism for saying he does not think that Buddhism offers the… Continue Reading
Snuck Up On Me
It’s really less than 40 days to the Winter Olympics? I’ve not been paying attention, clearly — and not watching television, particularly NBC. Or maybe the Vancouver 2010 folks have simply not established any kind of a web advertising presence… Continue Reading
Sixteen Guesses For 2010
Renewing my tradition from last year, I boldly offer the following predictions for the next year. I make no claim to psychic powers, clairvoyance, astral projection, divine or demonic information, or access to time machines. These are SWAGs and nothing… Continue Reading
Predictions for 2009: Mixed Report Card
A year ago, I made some predictions for what would happen in 2009. How’d I do? 1. The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. Check. 2. A human being will be cloned. Not Yet… Continue Reading
Disturbing Use Of Photoshop
Among other sources for sports news, I sometimes read Yahoo! Sports’ Shutdown Corner NFL blog. This week, that blog used the graphic posted at the left to advertise its live chat for the Monday night football game between Washington and… Continue Reading
Cheer Up, TL, At Least You’ve Got Time Records To Audit
In reading over my last three posts, you may get the sense that I’m bitter about something. And it’s true that it kind of stung to lose by one point to Pittsburgh as time expired after what I think was… Continue Reading
Weekend Weirdness, Volume X
To begin this tenth edition of Weekend Weirdness, I give you tens. Tens of weird commercials. Ten half minutes of a guy in a chicken suit playing “What is Love?” from Ring Mod on Vimeo. Okay, “ten half minutes” is… Continue Reading