As many of you have no doubt learned by now, I like commercials. More specifically, I like to disapprove of them in various ways for sundry reasons.

This newest installment, however, concerns a commercial and related story that happened at my mom's house last month, when I was visiting. I don't necessarily disapprove of the commercial per se, ( Read more... )

so here's an interesting scenario i've found myself embroiled in ( Read more... )

there are two commercials that stick in my head recently. join me while i skewer them, won't you?

icecreamandcakeandcake!

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all i have to say about this, is that it reminds me - start to finish, sight and sound, of something that probably should have been on aqua teen hunger force; not comprising a commercial for baskin robbins.

dinner with mom ( Read more... )

a. RIP Michael Jackson.

2. RIP Farrah Fawcett. she had the bad fortune to not simply expire from a long, public struggle with cancer, but to do it on the same day as a. up there checks out, and it's an immediate b-story.

and d. i was actually kind of looking forward to watching Countdown tonight, because i read this earlier and i thought "oh ( Read more... )

well, not really ( Read more... )

-i woke up at 5 am this morning. i can't tell you why. 5 am, and i was wide awake. so, i got up. i don't like lying in bed awake. i made headway on a knitting project for my mom that i started a year ago...i realized i'd better finish it when she started telling me she didn't believe i was actually making her anything (since i was fool enough ( Read more... )

so last night, after work, i ran to target to get a couple of things and i noticed that they had the season 10 simpsons dvd on sale for 13.99. i was on the fence about buying this one; i sort of felt that this was the season where it got iffy and i didn't think i wanted that set. i have seasons 1-9 already, and i didn't pay more than $20 for any ( Read more... )

hmm, my first post in 4.5 months. and it's a doozy ( Read more... )

i don't know how many people have heard about this, but i saw on sportscenter that there's a big controversy surrounding the fact that one girls' private high school basketball team in texas beat another girls' private high school basketball team 100-0.

there's a story about it here. a lot of blame questions are being asked; about the ( Read more... )

1. one of the puzzles on wheel of fortune last night was "i'm on my way". i started laughing hysterically and i really think my roommate thought i was crazy. i had to explain to her that in an old episode of the simpsons, there's a part where homer is supposed to go get bart at soccer practice. marge is leaving the house with lisa and says " ( Read more... )