kidrobot mr. burns. with bobo!!!!
ps. if you haven’t read the bigfoot book get it now! funniest thing ever!
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
bad influence
steph got me started watching the hills several seasons ago and then last season she wanted to give it up. i won’t let her. the new season started today and i forced her to watch it too. i’m a jerk. hehe.
simpsons mania
unless you’ve been wearing earmuffs and a blindfold for the past month, by now you must have heard about the upcoming simpsons movie. the marketing onslaught behind the movie is nothing short of amazing.
my favorite is the kwik-e-mart conversions, where they took twelve 7-11’s and converted them into kwik-e-marts. canada got one and wouldn’t you know…it ended up in coquitlam. now being a fairly adept geek “internet researcher”, i found out about it quick early on and made the trek out to coquitlam the day before the conversion…doh! i have yet to make it back.
my next favorite is the avatar generator on the simpsons movie site. here you can create yourself as a simpsons character kinda like creating yourself as a Mii on the nintendo wii.
then there’s the simpsonize site where you can upload a photo of yourself and it’ll turn you into a simpsons character. i’ve yet to get it to work due to the heavy traffic.
then there’s the simpsons collabo’s with numerous greedy corporations innovative manufacturers which are too numerous to name here.
anyhoo…nice job simpsons marketing team! and don’t worry i’ll be going to see the movie.
oh and i absolutely LOVE the movie trailer where ralph wiggum is singing along to the 20th century fox song.
omfg
best two hours of television ever. that would be the season finale of lost. i mean hurley in the vw bus, sayid and his legs of death, indestructable cyclops man, flash-forwards, locke back from the dead, walt, “that’s your mother”, rousseau’s expression after knocking out ben!!! whose in the casket?
amazing race season finale
the blondies didn’t win but i’m ok with eric and danielle winning. they raced pretty good. i would’ve had a brain aneurysm if psycho-fake-accent-hysterics team won.
and my $.02… the final leg should not be decided by the quality of the taxi driver. the final pitstop and at least a detour and roadblock should all be within walking distince of each other so that the team’s efforts decided who wins, not the transportation method.
green
the universe has aligned against me to go green this week. during my little trip through peru, i had spent some time at a cafe in Cusco where they had this book called earth from above. it had amazing photos in it and i made a note to try and find it. well find it i did and in a monster coffee table book version which i finally broke down and bought from amazon. it showed up this week.
then a much anticipated DVD dropped this week as well. planet earth which has some of the most amazing imagery i’ve seen in a while. crazy time lapse and super duper slow-mo shots. i don’t usually watch nature shows but this one has been keeping me entertained (monkeys are funny). so anyways, shopping at costco (whose return policy rocks by the way) and there it was staring me in the face so i had to buy it.
then there’s the sorry excuse for a green initiative the canadian government announced this week.
and then i saw a picture of aston martin’s new racing team in…green.
then i was given a pair of shoes that i’ve been searching for. the adidas mark gonzales superskates in blue/yellow. blue and yellow combined make…green
its all going green…
rotten in denmark pt 2
ok…things are getting a little too obvious on the “helping things along”
tip on the amazing race. seriously, the blondes finish the leg some 16 hours ahead of last place teams and how do they start the next leg? get on a bus…in 16 hours. bullshit.
the producers knew what time people were expected into warsaw cause every team had the option of taking the pre-booked flight. so worst case scenario, teams arrive at 11:25AM, do their shit and are finished by that afternoon/evening. next leg they’ve obviously chartered private buses to Auschwitz so why 1:00pm the following day? why not 6:00AM, 9:00AM?!?! shit, why not let the teams get to Auschwitz themselves?
so its a pretty safe bet to say that they adjusted the schedule to accommodate the late racers in order to:
a) heighten the sense of “tension” or competitiveness
b) reduce the logistics expense of multiple production support teams scattered farther apart
c) get more dramatic shots of Auschwitz by shooting at night and backlighting the windows like some haunted house.
nice way to crush any sense of “reality” in your “reality tv” CBS…
oh please…
okay Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit…WTF… six seasons in a row there’s a mole?!?! who the hell does your hiring? high school intern? sheesh. way to ruin an otherwise good season of 24…
rotten in denmark
i’m really starting to suspect what the producers of the amazing race do to get the “drama” they think they need to make the show. are the non-elimination legs really pre-determined before the race starts (or just pre-determined as before the last team checks in). are detours or roadblocks designed to help some teams while hindering others? this season just seems a little too contrived for some reason.
unluckiest man alive
that would be me. found an old stack of lottery tickets from the past summer/fall…went online to check the numbers. out of some two dozen tickets not even a lousy stinkin free play. gawd. maybe next time i’ll just play the Lost numbers. they’re already ingrained in my head…4-8-15-16-23-42…plus i’m getting fat enough to qualify as Hurley