this post has no real purpose, except to provide you with the video of the most hilarious skit i've seen on saturday night live in some time.
i've been watching for the last three seasons off and on, mostly on for the last two since kristin wiig's emergence. her stuff is the most consistent, with andy samberg's digital shorts a close second - and then every now and then, samberg will bust out a gem like this.
the impression is dead on.
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Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Monday, October 6, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
what a disappointment
although i probably shouldn't admit it, i enjoy a bit of celebrity gossip from time to time. i have no idea why, honestly - something about the whole hollywood lifestyle, i guess. in reality, i feel like i really could care less about lindsay lohan's romances, unless she wants to get me involved .. but i just don't know. i'm fascinated. i check wwtdd and/or the superficial daily, if not multiple times a day. (shoot me.)
anyway, with that said, it should come as no surprise that i've been looking forward to my first nyc celebrity sighting .. and this morning, it happened!
any guesses as to who it was?
fucking brooke shields, walking around soho this morning on my way to work. what a disappointment. she's so unfamous that the only thing i can think of with her in it is south park: the movie, in the scene where she says that she 'farted once on the set of blue lagoon', and terrance slaps her in her face. and she didn't even want to be in that.
(the clip sucks, because i don't think you can just go posting movie scenes on youtube. but, yeah.)
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anyway, with that said, it should come as no surprise that i've been looking forward to my first nyc celebrity sighting .. and this morning, it happened!
any guesses as to who it was?
fucking brooke shields, walking around soho this morning on my way to work. what a disappointment. she's so unfamous that the only thing i can think of with her in it is south park: the movie, in the scene where she says that she 'farted once on the set of blue lagoon', and terrance slaps her in her face. and she didn't even want to be in that.
(the clip sucks, because i don't think you can just go posting movie scenes on youtube. but, yeah.)
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
just wanted to let you know
that i haven't forgotten about you, i just haven't had anything great to say lately. not that all the other stuff going on this here blog qualifies as particularly 'great', but you catch my drift.
also just wanted to let you know, on a sad note, that the beloved family dog passed away yesterday after a seriously unfortunate accident at home in massachusetts. no need for a detailed explanation.
otto lived an 8-year-long life of english bulldog luxury, consisting mostly of sleep and probably too much hand-fed 'people food' (it's the italian in us).
anybody willing to scratch near his ass was an automatic best friend.
he protected the front door and the top of the stairs - he loved his family, and his family loved him.
RIP otto .. you were a good boy.
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also just wanted to let you know, on a sad note, that the beloved family dog passed away yesterday after a seriously unfortunate accident at home in massachusetts. no need for a detailed explanation.
otto lived an 8-year-long life of english bulldog luxury, consisting mostly of sleep and probably too much hand-fed 'people food' (it's the italian in us).
anybody willing to scratch near his ass was an automatic best friend.
he protected the front door and the top of the stairs - he loved his family, and his family loved him.
RIP otto .. you were a good boy.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
the WORLD wide web
i don't read the free papers they hand out at the subway in the morning, but i do glance at other people's over their shoulder. if you're reading this and thinking, 'i HATE when people do that!' - i'm sorry, and i hate it too.
anyway, i digress. this morning's front page headline was 'fear of human crisis in ravaged s. ossetia'. the CNN.com headline on the very first day of this whole debacle was 'breaking news: russia invades georgia'.
i am not even close to educated enough on the issue at hand between russia and georgia to discuss the actual story - but what i will say is that it seems american media coverage of the happenings at this point has been pro-georgia. this is reinforced when you read today that president bush has warned russia to withdraw troops immediately, or face possible retaliation.
so i was curious as to what started this whole thing in the first place. apparently - and this is just from a conversation with a buddy - georgia is split into two territories, north and south ossetia, and each wants to withdraw from georgia to become a part of russia. there was civil unrest between the two, and russia got involved.
now again, i don't know enough - but that doesn't sound like russia 'invading' georgia to me. an 'invasion' is out of nowhere .. isn't it?
back to the point of this post .. on the WORLD wide web, you can check out BBC for news outside of the states, or any one of numerous other world outlets. so if you're looking for some additional coverage, there are places to look.
and i'm not really saying the US news coverage is biased, or not grounded in truth .. just that the web makes it possible to check other sources.
the internet rules!
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anyway, i digress. this morning's front page headline was 'fear of human crisis in ravaged s. ossetia'. the CNN.com headline on the very first day of this whole debacle was 'breaking news: russia invades georgia'.
i am not even close to educated enough on the issue at hand between russia and georgia to discuss the actual story - but what i will say is that it seems american media coverage of the happenings at this point has been pro-georgia. this is reinforced when you read today that president bush has warned russia to withdraw troops immediately, or face possible retaliation.
so i was curious as to what started this whole thing in the first place. apparently - and this is just from a conversation with a buddy - georgia is split into two territories, north and south ossetia, and each wants to withdraw from georgia to become a part of russia. there was civil unrest between the two, and russia got involved.
now again, i don't know enough - but that doesn't sound like russia 'invading' georgia to me. an 'invasion' is out of nowhere .. isn't it?
back to the point of this post .. on the WORLD wide web, you can check out BBC for news outside of the states, or any one of numerous other world outlets. so if you're looking for some additional coverage, there are places to look.
and i'm not really saying the US news coverage is biased, or not grounded in truth .. just that the web makes it possible to check other sources.
the internet rules!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
almost as good as a real beach!
go click around on corona beach. throw your blackberry into the ocean, put a lime in your beer ..
and draw in the sand. (yeah, i'm an artist. those are my feet, i'm lounging looking out at the water.)
i'm thirsty. for a corona. is that the desired effect?
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and draw in the sand. (yeah, i'm an artist. those are my feet, i'm lounging looking out at the water.)
i'm thirsty. for a corona. is that the desired effect?
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Monday, August 11, 2008
congratulations, you broke one MILLION points
not really though - apparently you can't get to a million, because if you could, this would have been the performance. there's nothing else in life for this dude to accomplish.
TWO HANDS!? really? i didn't even know that could happen.
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TWO HANDS!? really? i didn't even know that could happen.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
"find 5 differences" .. kinda, not really
print ads, in general, are not eye-catching. the reality is, it's not easy to make a reader stop and interact with - or even glance at - a magazine ad. it's even worse if they're in an awful position in the magazine, like smack in the middle.
i saw this ketel one ad smack in the middle of wired, and found myself spending time with it. after about a minute, i realized i had been duped - but as an advertising professional, i was okay with that.
you see, there aren't any differences between the two ketel one bottles. but, you sure have spent a hell of a lot of time staring at them!
good work.
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i saw this ketel one ad smack in the middle of wired, and found myself spending time with it. after about a minute, i realized i had been duped - but as an advertising professional, i was okay with that.
you see, there aren't any differences between the two ketel one bottles. but, you sure have spent a hell of a lot of time staring at them!
good work.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
THE blob
watch this video a half dozen times. the height on the launch, the kicking the legs mid-air, the back flop, the fact that she's probably 10 and crying when she comes up?
like a fine wine, it gets better with age.
also, the video is obnoxiously huge, and covering up some side-bar information .. but worth it i'd say.
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like a fine wine, it gets better with age.
also, the video is obnoxiously huge, and covering up some side-bar information .. but worth it i'd say.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
it's not a party without guinness (apparently)
this clip has been up on youtube for four months, and has 300,000 views. it's not the definition of viral per se (this ray ban viral video has 3.6 million views in a year), but it's gotten some decent exposure. i, for one, have had it forwarded to me by two friends in the last three days.
imagine if advertisers would go out on a limb more often and do something like what guinness did here. i've seen some of these 'never-made-it-to-TV' ads on youtube before, and they're usually a hit.
what does this say about this type of risque advertising? that people would like it more than the crap that's jammed down their throats? or does it not matter, because the realities of both the ad industry and society just don't allow for it to happen?
UPDATE: youtube pulled the clip. i hope you had an opportunity to see before it went MIA, but if not, here's the rundown. a naked woman (clearly on all fours) is slowly rocking back and forth, with a bottle of guinness resting in the small of her back. about 30 seconds in, a male hand from behind the woman reaches for the bottle, takes a swig, and let's out a refreshing 'ahhh.' 10 seconds later, a male hand from the front does the same. the tagline 'guinness: share one with a friend' comes up, then a third hand from the bottom of the screen reaches up for a sip, and the tagline continues .. 'or two.'
apparently the aforementioned 'realities of society' are responsible for pulling it down.
my question is - what the hell was the third hand doing down there?
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imagine if advertisers would go out on a limb more often and do something like what guinness did here. i've seen some of these 'never-made-it-to-TV' ads on youtube before, and they're usually a hit.
what does this say about this type of risque advertising? that people would like it more than the crap that's jammed down their throats? or does it not matter, because the realities of both the ad industry and society just don't allow for it to happen?
UPDATE: youtube pulled the clip. i hope you had an opportunity to see before it went MIA, but if not, here's the rundown. a naked woman (clearly on all fours) is slowly rocking back and forth, with a bottle of guinness resting in the small of her back. about 30 seconds in, a male hand from behind the woman reaches for the bottle, takes a swig, and let's out a refreshing 'ahhh.' 10 seconds later, a male hand from the front does the same. the tagline 'guinness: share one with a friend' comes up, then a third hand from the bottom of the screen reaches up for a sip, and the tagline continues .. 'or two.'
apparently the aforementioned 'realities of society' are responsible for pulling it down.
my question is - what the hell was the third hand doing down there?
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
my theory on color
i've come up with some strange theories in my day, but this one may take the cake. this is something i've been talking about for years, first mentioned to my buddy mike all the way back in middle school i believe, and mentioned to several people since then.
mike is one of the smartest guys i know. salutatorian of our class, straight a's at middlebury, works as an environmental geologist in boston now. when i gave him my theory on color, he just shook his head, told me i was being stupid as usual. so i asked him to explain why it wasn't possible, and he went off on this rant about the color spectrum and physics - whatever he said probably did successfully debunk my idea, but because i couldn't follow what the hell he was talking about, i still think it's interesting and maybe even possible. here goes:
when i see red, i see red. like a stop sign or a fire hydrant. and when you see a stop sign or a fire hydrant, you too see red. but who's to say that my red isn't your purple, and your red my blue? the same can be said for all the colors. because you really can't DESCRIBE a color without just naming something that is that color, i think it's hard to disprove this. imagine, if every single day we were all walking around, going about our business, but our physical perceptions of the things around us were just completely twisted. would anyone know?
is this (im)possible?
mike is one of the smartest guys i know. salutatorian of our class, straight a's at middlebury, works as an environmental geologist in boston now. when i gave him my theory on color, he just shook his head, told me i was being stupid as usual. so i asked him to explain why it wasn't possible, and he went off on this rant about the color spectrum and physics - whatever he said probably did successfully debunk my idea, but because i couldn't follow what the hell he was talking about, i still think it's interesting and maybe even possible. here goes:
when i see red, i see red. like a stop sign or a fire hydrant. and when you see a stop sign or a fire hydrant, you too see red. but who's to say that my red isn't your purple, and your red my blue? the same can be said for all the colors. because you really can't DESCRIBE a color without just naming something that is that color, i think it's hard to disprove this. imagine, if every single day we were all walking around, going about our business, but our physical perceptions of the things around us were just completely twisted. would anyone know?
is this (im)possible?
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