September 13th, 2005 §
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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September 11th, 2005 §
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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September 10th, 2005 §
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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July 15th, 2005 §
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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July 4th, 2005 §
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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May 28th, 2005 §
May 28th, 2005 §
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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April 13th, 2005 §
Please remove the Last Name pronunciation. ONLY Japanese users should fill this.
[- Apple Certifications site, when I tried to put "Like it sounds." in the 'Last Name Pronunciation' field. Hey, it said it was required only for Japanese users, but it didn't say others couldn't fill it in.]
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January 8th, 2005 §
And not a moment too soon, William Shatner’s magnum opus finally becomes available on the iTunes store.
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January 5th, 2005 §
It figures that as soon as I go to install the WP Hashcash plugin to hopefully head the comment spam off at the pass, I go checkout ioerror.us [home of the SpamAssassin WP plugin] and find I can’t post because my IP is on a SPEWS blacklist. So I’m freaking, then I read the SPEWS entry… they have all of Local Cable Monopoly blacklisted. Whew.
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