I’m not exactly sure if this is a plug for the grocer Safeway or if I’m merely falling into a marketing person’s trap. For years we’ve been warned about the subliminal aspects of advertising and I never thought that I’d experience a Pavlovian moment until now. This commercial drives me nuts: [flv]http://heyitcouldbeworse.com/media/Safeway_USA__Commercial.flv[/flv] It seems fairly […]

I’ll actually post the junk in my head that I’ve been meaning to post soon 🙂

Christmas presents. Oy, oy, oy…what a horrible time of the year. I’m never good at finding and buying presents for people. It wasn’t until recently that I finished buying presents for my wife, Angela, and I spent a good part of the last few weeks trying to figure out a cool present to give her. […]

It’s that time of the year and, dang nabbit, the commercials are going to start hitting me pretty hard. For some reason I don’t think television is the same as it used to be – none of the shows really have a hard hitting Christmas story. You know what I’m talking about. Like ‘My So […]

The tag line for Pedro Arzipe’s Port Sherry web comic is “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man…”. The March 4, 2009 comic titled “The Obsolete Add-on” so deftly illustrates how far we’ve come with video games as well as how much we’ve lost.

I’ve been hearing a lot about ‘The Real World: DC’ over the past few months. Real World XXIII: Washington DC – MTV Shows Most of it has been pretty negative. Honestly, all I can really think is that I’m pretty apathetic about it. It’s almost ‘too late’ in a sense. Hell, I haven’t watched MTv […]

It’s almost December and I can already hear Andy Williams merrily singing everywhere I go “It’s the holiday season And Santa Claus has got a toy For every good girl and good little boy He’s a great big bundle of joy He’ll be coming down the chimney, down Coming down the chimney, down…” Which, I […]

I was talking to Matt today and we were tossing around tv shows that we thought should be required viewing for Thanksgiving. Here are two oldies but goodies that I don’t think kids these days would have seen. So, aside from the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving show or Adam Sandler’s Thanksgiving Song, I give you – […]

Currently, Angela and I don’t have kids. We have 3 dogs and a cat. Somewhere down the line we may have one or two (or 15). Are we missing out? Maybe, maybe not. I do know, however, that sometimes the thought of having kids to do stuff with is pretty cool. I dunno. Stuff like […]

I’m not terribly out of shape. If, of course, the shape that you’re thinking of is a round ball. However, I’ve come to appreciate the people who are athletic or physically fit. Today, Angela was on Boing Boing and she came across an article referencing the 1987 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMJOPlK-0E[/youtube] Oy. What […]

I have this waiting for me at home [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BHkAf9nO5Q[/youtube] and I can’t wait to watch it! Not only will Clarkson be testing numerous super cars with his trademark pompousity but we’ll also get to see Top Gears The Stig vs. (the currently cancelled) Fifth Gear’s Tiff Needell! It should be a good watch 🙂 I’ll […]

Marissa Miller is 8 years younger than me. Whereas I got to see Star Wars when it first came out she was probably still getting used to solid food. Another difference? She’s a wildly successful model who has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issues and a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Me? I’m crabby […]

Alice in Wonderland – Extended Trailer I watched this clip and the following immediately came to mind: Tim Burton must really have a thing for Johnny Depp Johnny Depp is about 46 years old and still called ‘Johnny’ Johnny Depp gets some of the weirdest roles and make up I wonder if the music will […]

I like Mike Rowe a lot. No, not in some kind of man crush kind of way, but more along the lines that his television personality seems to be the same way that he is in real life. His television show, Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, is in its 5th season and has reached […]

First off… I will not lie – I’m an avid anime/manga consumer. It gives you a warped sense of what culture is like in Japan. On the one hand you think that every scantily clad school girl has a kick ass robot that can transform into a spaceship, on the other hand you also get […]

Oy, it’s almost Halloween and I’m still working on two different posts: Michael’s Annual Halloween Candy Extravaganza Happy Halloween! Jane, You Ignorant Slut! (working title) However, I’ve run into a pretty bad roadblock: I’m lazy. I keep going back to my drafts and my research and then I get distracted with so many other things. […]

I didn’t know if I wanted to post this on my blog or on the Woofie’s blog. Seeing as how my friend Amy’s blog is slightly more professional, I opted to put this here: First off, there are so many weird things about this short clip – There’s a skunk with it’s head stuck in […]

Oh, that Hugh Laurie… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAE5z8Ct56g&fmt=18[/youtube] …he makes me laugh in so many ways. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Ministry of Silly Walks [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlBUglE6Hc[/youtube] Anywho, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry always manage to fascinate me. If it wasn’t for Jeeves & Wooster then it was the numerous other material that they’ve produced over the years. […]

The new Volkswagen website, thefuntheory.com, is being built around the premise that [It] is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change […]

I’ve been on the interwebs for a while. Yes, this ugly mistress and I go back quite a ways. There have been times when I’ve tried to ignore her beguiling charms but she always finds a way to sink her hastily applied Lee Press On Nails into my back and draw me in. It was […]

You really don’t hear about cosplayers outside of either Japan or the United States. I give to you an ingenius fellow from Mexico and his rendition of Bumble Bee from the Transformers [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8CUHGb1Y4[/youtube] That thing is freakin’ SICK! Angela and I briefly discussed how difficult it must be to design something like that. I kept […]

Waugh. After my last post about Kristen Dunst I was hoping that it was all just a bad dream. I mean, sailor uniforms, magical girl outfit, thigh-high striped stockings on the frame of a Hollywood starlet should make me giddy, right? Instead it made me feel conflicted. Then more images started to pop up (click […]

I’ll admit: I was a fan of Kirsten Dunst in “Bring It On”. She was cute, blond and in a cheerleader uniform. Then she sorta got weird. She would walk around bra-less and in hippy clothes. She was spotted on the beach with her bando top unceremoniously exposing her boobs (Aaaaaaaaargh! My eyes!!!). By the […]

I like cartoons. Sure, I’m all happy to see anime or the stuff that’s ginned up in Hollywood. Much of it all comes down to the base notion that I really ejoy watching children’s programming, not just when I was a kid but also as I’ve grown into a relatively well adjusted adult. And then […]

So, the other day I was sitting trying to figure out a ton of random stuff at work when, all of a sudden, I got LL Cool J songs stuck in my head. Luckily, YouTube was around the corner and I was able to load up songs like “Rock the Bells”, “I Need Love”, “Going […]

I’m one of those freaks that can’t work in silence. The unfortunate truth is that I also have a ton of work that I need to get through over the next two weeks. Work work and other client work is going to keep me chained to my computer for a while. It’s making my butt numb.

A few weeks ago I was scampering about the internets the way I normally do, reading all of my favorite columns and comics, watching my favorite pod casts and stupid videos. As I sat at my desk, with two sleepy dogs at my feet, I kept trying to dig from the depths of my mind […]