Call me cliche

But Levi's has a great thing going for them right now.

"Go Forth" just may be the best ad campaign of all time.

Sesame Street from Hell

Yes, this is a blatant ripoff from a Digg comment stream, but damn is it funny. First, it seems everyone's favorite cookie monster is suffering a relapse.

If you think that is really unsettling (it is) but mildly creative and funny, wait until you see Tickle Me Elmo (on of my favorite toys ever by the way) on fire!!!

Fall Break

Finally. Three tests today, one last Friday. It's been a long past 7 days.

In other news, new South Park tonight at 10. Check out the link of you are a fan of Cartman, Kyle, Stan, dead-Kenny, and Butters. Every episode free streaming. Boners!

HDT: better than Sportscenter

Ah yes, nothing like HD goodness in life size form. And don't get me wrong, I love seeing every dimple on Stuart Scott's head and the cheeto residue on Steven A. Smith's fingers, but Sportscenter is just an hour long. And when you watch it from 11 to 4, it gets a little monotonous.

Instead, I now see bears twice as big as me, cockroaches hiss, and (right now) watch a wolverine chow down on what looks to be a deer carcass (PETA eat your heart out) all thanks to Discovery HD Theater.

You don't wanna mess with one of these suckers.

This is starting to become a late-night ritual for me. Well, that or some super mario world (yes, on super nintendo) It almost makes me want to get off my butt, turn off the excellent programming, and actually do something radical like go outside or something. Creepy.

Theory: Quality TV should make you want to do something other than watching TV.

Food network is also great at this. I hate the Food network. It makes everything I eat seem stale and overdone. I try to avoid it but someone will inevitably flip to it and here I am, making a mental grocery list that only Mr. Jungle could possibly fill (and he may even have to make a few calls). //Small rant.

Then again, Lifetime and Hallmark channels also make me want to stop watching TV and do something else, so maybe this needs a little revision....

Black Light Special

I can say with a great deal of confidence that this past Friday was the first time I have ever woken up before the crack of dawn while on a "vacation" of any sort when fish weren't involved. Ever since I could recognize a good sale in the newspaper (and had the money to actually make a few purchases) I've had a sick desire to experience the "BLACK FRIDAY" (spooky sounding, eh?) rush.


So, this year, Dad and I (yes, I'm pretty sure we were the only two white males together I saw all day) woke up bright and early at 5:00, grabbed a coffee, and headed out to Staples to get in line for those thumb drives and DVDs. A couple observations I made throughout the day...

1.) DVDs are dirt cheap this year. You can get full seasons of anything that didn't air on HBO for $15 bucks or less if you look around (see: Target, Circut City).
2.) America really can be a sick, sick, place if you just stop and look around. I'm not trying to say, "BOO CAPITALISM!!!!!1!1!" or anything, I was there right along with everybody (see: below). Just the pure numbers of people everywhere from Target to friggin' Pep Boys (yes, Pep Boys, they had some great car-GPS prices) had a crowd.
3.) The downfall of the guitar is imminent. And don't think that it will stop there.
4.) Tickle Me Elmo EXTREME! is hilarious on four hours of sleep.

Our prize purchase of the day, you ask? Office Max, of all places, had some crazy deals on monitors of all types, computer, TV, and projections. For the past year or so we have been contemplating converting the basement into our own common-man-home-theatre (if there is such a thing), and when there is an HD projector with a free 80-inch screen included (which costs only a hundred less than the actual projector), we caved.

The conversion should probably have been a weekend project, but I kind of blew my load when I got home, and by 8:00 that night we were watching a life-size Will Ferrell in Elf.


Mom will kill me for showing the interweb the mess, and honestly the picture doesn't quite do it justice, but this is the best photo-evidence I have.

Note to self: 2,000 lumens is really, REALLY freaking bright when directly shined into cornea.

Hilarious

If this doesn't just perfectly describe nearly every (not all, but nearly all) organization, I don't know what does.

My personal favorite is "big talking" Jerome. "Let's do it!"

Funny Lines from the Family Guy premiere

EVERY FRICKIN' ONE.

I hate to admit it, but Simpsons really has disgressed in its later years. Either that, or Family Guy is still on its exponential-growth-of-funny stage.

Everything from start to finish (or, to put it better, from the whole family laughing at Meg's idea of reading during the power outage, to Stewies perfect rendition of Darth Vader, to Chris and Peter's argument on the quality of Robot Chicken) was AWESOME.

Sure, Simpons had a few parts (see below) that warrented a quick chuckle, but wow. The sad truth is that the apprentice has finally surpassed its master (pardon the slightly Star Wars reference)

This clip is the best I can do in terms of a preview. There is a longer 10 minute excerpt, but quality its notably crappy.

Funny lines from the Simpsons premiere

"Let’s enjoy the Miami of Canada, Chicago!"

"Commercial is for losers and terrorists."

"Bart. I’ll need some clean urine, STAT!"

"I didn’t think I’d be flying today so… I did heroine."

My Sunday TV lineup

In case you were curious.

1.) I still hate the Steelers, but Willie Parker can play on my flag football team anyday.

2.) The Cincinnati Bengals: Playing ourselves out of games since Paul Brown.

3.) This guy gives me a really uneasy feeling. I can't quite place my finger on it, and don't want to go on the easy route by just saying CAUSE HE'S CRAZY!!!!!!1!!!111!1!!!!one!!! There's more to it. More on that later, maybe.

4.) 60 Minutes this week was really freakin good. I want to put my money down now that Kasparov will be dead within two years. Stone.

5. & 6.) Fox Sunday nights are amazing.