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In a spellbinding display of arrogance, Greg Daddytypes offers a dollar — no, make it two — to his readers who are presumably too cheap to buy his preferred brand of bodysuit. As for me, If I’mma afford a five-hundred-dollar stroller to load into my Audi A6 Avant, something’s going to have to give. I nominate the quickly outgrown and easily disposable onesie bodysuit spit-up formula catcher.

You know what, DaddyTypes.com? My New Year’s Resolution was to slim down the number of RSS feeds in my NetNewsWire, and… New Year’s just came! Keep your two dollars. Babycenter may not be powered by MovableType, but at least it’s given the wife advice she can use and a place to trade Enfamil coupons.

For those keeping track, this takes me down to 120 feeds. =(

UPDATE July 11, 2007: Daddytypes actually really took it to the upscale-baby-furniture folks today. Yes, this means I’m reading it after all.

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I feel compelled to note East Bay, a condominium community in Walled Lake. They have made awesomely cheesy radio spots which run relentlessly on the local irreverent talk-radio station. In the East Bay Village of the ads, the guys are all incredibly excited to be living so close to Walled Lake and are particularly jazzed about the volleyball court and the hot tub. Meanwhile, the women residents are near-catatonic, particularly with regard to “all. the. hot. guys.” that live in the neighborhood.

Everyone, however, is just delighted that they don’t have to live in Royal Oak, when Walled Lake is so close to Somerset, downtown Detroit, Michigan Stadium, and possibly the Outer Hebrides. [Yes, Bob Shuman is fond of noting that "Walled Lake is ten minutes from everywhere and five minutes from you," but come on. I drive through Walled Lake nearly every day, and it is a rather convenient location, but let's not get carried away. The closest Starbucks are still in the three towns bordering Walled Lake, although I suspect a Domino's may be on the verge of opening. Not that I'm saying that these are the superior choices, just widely accepted standards.]

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I would’ve really liked the white “Nation of Millions” shirt with the giant P.E. crosshair logo on the back, but who’s choosing? The product description on this one is not to be missed.

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CNN covers the denouement of the Wendy’s Chili Fiasco.

“Thankfully, law enforcement thwarted their successful efforts at theft,” said Deputy District Attorney David Boyd.

Well, which is it? Successful or thwarted? It can’t be BOTH, law enforcement.

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The P-Boink profile of the precocious Partridge brat brings to mind the old 70s Saturday Morning cartoon formula of rehashing prime-time sitcoms in space or in another preposterous setting that could only be animated.

There was a Gilligan’s Island cartoon show where they were marooned on an uncharted planet. There was a Happy Days cartoon where Richie, Potsie, and Ralph wound up stuck in some teenage alien girl’s time machine. I think Fonzie was in there with them, while simultanously running the motor pool at the Army base where Laverne and Shirley were stationed on their own cartoon show. Yeah, Laverne and Shirley’s cartoon show was about them being in the Army. Click the link, I swear I’m not making this up.

The P’Boink writer suggests “Yes, Dear” would best be served as a cartoon series about fighting robots. Which makes me wonder…

If “Friends” had spun off a cartoon series: the gang would all be living on a space station with talking alien pets. Perhaps they would someday travel to the WNYX space station from that one season finale of NewsRadio.

If “Everybody Loves Raymond” were a cartoon series: Ray would be a decorated race driver/crime fighter with a mad tricked-out car. The Barone brats would be replaced by a hapless toddler and a precocious monkey — I mean, the other way around — no, I don’t. Ray would occasionally be defeated at the checkered flag by his sad-sack archrival, an off-duty New York cop known only as “Robert X,” but who, the announcer reminds us, is SECRETLY…

I will endeavor to update this as other ideas come to me.

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If you’re trying to figure out what the story is with the Aqua Teens’ Foreigner Belt, to whom can you turn>? Why, Foreigner Files dot com, of course.

This still doesn’t answer my “what’s that song I hear in the mall that samples ‘Urgent’” question, of course, but at least it settles one argument.

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What I need now is an SUV desktop to put my ribbon icons on.  If only someone would make an antimagnet.com sticker into an icon.  I would change the default MP3 file icon to this.

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And the first blog this year to take off running with the gone to Epcot Center with Michael McDonald meme is U Mean Competitor.

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All right, everyone, just one more time. ow Ow OWWWWW HEY HEY HEY OWWWWWW

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First the U2 [X] Apple iPod, now the Gwen Stefani [X] HP camera.

Other musician-consumer goods collaborations I am also eagerly awaiting:

• LL Cool J [X] Panasonic Lasonic radios [Lasonic made the huge ones with about a hundred different, useless but impressive looking knobs and dials]
• the Freeway [X] Norelco beard trimmer
• Raymond Watts [X] Hormel canned ham
• Haze [X] Krylon spray paint

I still have yet to try the 50-Cent Vitamin Water, though.

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