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7. March 2010

A Crowd that’s Never Seen “Rent”

Filed under: No No NO, Real America, Failure, Elsewhere, North Dakota — admin @ 11:02

Over at Say Anything Blog “North Dakota’s Most Popular Political Blog™” it appears they’re featuring content from past years. Like this 1991 debate about gays, AIDS and blood donation.

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Oh wait, what’s that? This is a debate from two days ago? Oh my. Good to see rationality and factual information have finally started making it to North Dakota.

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I have simply no idea why so much of the nation thinks about the wonderful Peace Garden State as an intellectual backwater full of hypocrisy about free living and individual rights.

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6. March 2010

Red Dawn Warned Us

Filed under: Tricky, Failure, This Could be Longer — admin @ 12:10

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Remember when The Wolverines were favorably compared with the mujaheddin? I wonder if after they were victorious and drove the Russians out they instituted some kind of draconian rule based on literal interpretations of ancient religious texts? Guess we need a sequel.

Related: Rambo III has the greatest action film finale ever.

5. March 2010

UW’s Badger Herald Editorial Staff Learning First Lessons of Page-View Journalism

Filed under: Wisconsin, Failure, This Could be Longer, Advertising — admin @ 09:06

Student newspaper The Badger Herald recently made the very stupid decision to run a Holocaust-denying ad on its website. The editor’s defense? “As much as I hate what I think Bradley Smith [the man who bought the ad] was trying to say in that ad, and as much as I hate what the Holocaust deniers are saying, they do have a right to say it.”

Um… I see a fine future for this Jason Smathers fellow; In the current climate who doesn’t want an EIC who will take any amount of ad money for any crazy thing?

Following last year’s “East Coast Jewish Honeys” rap, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student body is quickly redefining the campus from a hotbed of crunchy hippie liberal idealism to one of cultural intolerance and antisemitism. That’s not going to help property values.

Full Disclosure: I wrote various (terrible) articles for The Herald’s competition “The Cardinal” years ago just before the Cardinal, the “commie” student paper, went bust after a century.

4. March 2010

Further Signs of Our Downward Spiral: Monopolies

Filed under: Gaaaah!, No No NO, Real America, Failure, North Dakota — admin @ 22:57

Yes, the post office.. the employer of Mr. McFeely and my grandma (no joke).. is now an evil socialist entity that is to be here on out referred to in right-wing blog headlines as a “monopoly.” You know, like the socialist monopoly held by the police force.

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Watch the Product Placement Failure

Filed under: Failure, This Could be Longer, Product Placement — admin @ 09:00

travolta_breitling_ad.jpgA while ago I took a look at the Righteous Kill watch product placement screw up and noted how watches, in general, make for bad product placements.

It appears Breitling not only seems to not care about this but also, with help from John Travolta, has taken bad watch product placement to a whole new level. And, despite my earlier claims about why watch placements are bad — “The brands don’t show up and even when they do they are onscreen for such a short period that there is just no way an audience is going to leave the theater an hour later remembering if Capt. Awesome wore a Seiko or a Swatch.” — Breitling has engineered a plan to help audiences recall its brand. Too bad the plan sucks.

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2. March 2010

Game Over Man. Game. Over.

Filed under: Awesome, Failure — admin @ 20:26

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Gamer is this generation’s Johnny Mnemonic… 

“Karate” First Problem for Re-Make “Karate Kid”

Filed under: No No NO, Failure, Branding — admin @ 08:26

karate-kid.pngThe remake of Karate Kid is also titled Karate Kid. But in China, where the film takes place, kung fu is practiced, not karate. In the trailer Jackie Chan even says “king fu.” Karate is Japanese.

But hey, Japanese… Chinese… they look the same and probably share a lot of cultural identity and stuff and get along great, right. They’re not going to mind being confused, right. RIGHT?!

Related: The Manchurian Candidate remake.

1. March 2010

How We Live Now: Stolen WiFi Stolen

Filed under: Real America, Awesome, Failure — admin @ 08:30

“This person probably caught on, and turned it off.”

28. February 2010

Mary HK Choi’s Skank Boots Bleeding into My Olympics

Filed under: Failure, Elsewhere — admin @ 08:33

Last Autumn Mary HK Choi’s skank boots started bleeding into my beloved Football. Now they are showing up in my Olympics coverage. Here is figure skater Joannie Rochette speaking with Bob Costas in a paid of swashbuckling skank boots. LOOK OUT BOB SHE’S GOING TO BOARD YOU!

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25. February 2010

British Columbia: You Gotta’ Be Here… In a Studio in Burbank

Filed under: Gaaaah!, Failure, Advertising — admin @ 11:41

Nothing endorses a place like a bunch of famous people who could not even be bothered to go to the place and instead are standing in front of green screen images of said place.

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