Why do local TV stations treat their viewers like morons?
It’s the middle of November. The first snows came and melted a couple weeks ago. (Not here in the Miami of the North - Lockport, but down south of Buffalo, where it belongs)
Every 10 minutes, the TV starts beeping and a crawler comes on telling me what anyone with half a brain or a Farmer’s Almanac already knows: it’s going to snow. Read the rest of this entry »
I had thought about adding my two cents to the debate over NY Governor Elliot Spitzer’s plan to license illegal immigrants, but restrained myself until now. Now that the plan has been dropped (I almost said over, but I have a feeling it’s far from over) I’ll make some observations.
While thinking about favorite commercials, I remembered a Skittles commercial I saw. It was a stop-motion animation where the Skittles ran all over and made different things. Things like a merry-go-round, and of course the requisite rainbow. I don’t recall many details and thought sure it would be on YouTube, but I didn’t find it.
I did find another on that is just weird enough to share. Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, they found the formula - Beer + techno music + hot robot chicks. Put this in a loop with the Dell XPS commercial and I’m good for quite a while.
I found this one while looking for the clip from the Dell commercial. I’ve never seen it on TV, but that doesn’t alter the fact that it features more Devo. How can you go wrong with that?
It would be so easy to complain about all the commercials I don’t like. In fact, it might be an endless task.
But once in a while a commercial comes along that stands out from the crowd and I just have to enjoy for whatever reason. This is one. Never mind that it really has little to do about laptop computers. The idea of putting a big V8 engine into one is just silly. But silly is what makes this one fun. That and the hot techno-babes with wrenches and music by Devo.
And watch closely, it has just the right amount of cowbell!
The Grinch hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that his head wasn’t screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Perhaps it was because he was sick of being inundated by commercials with a Christmas theme starting before Halloween? Read the rest of this entry »
