watch it: “Miller Lite, 1970’s Classic commercial”
Hey, there’s 12 days of Christmas, and we’re not done yet.
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Hey, there’s 12 days of Christmas, and we’re not done yet.
Whoever said she enjoyed being a girl was insane: (via Jezebel)
Heh heh: robots are cool.
*sigh* And I remember when Grandpa fed me peyote, the most natural high a trusted older loved one can share with a child: Remember: Tuesday is “soylent green day,” and Thursday is “funky old TV commercial” day…
I traveled into Manhattan today for the first time since I returned home from England on Saturday. I was only away for 10 days, fer pete’s sake, and yet evidence of economic terror was suddenly everywhere. For one, two delis I visited in the theater district, hoping to pick up a soda to sneak into … more…
I don’t know why, but these garbage bins wrapped in Heroes ads — which are all over Grand Central Terminal — amuse me:
On Fox! At 8pm Eastern! I’d have had no idea if I hadn’t seen the ad on the IMDB this morning. Thank god for advertising. (If the spirit moves me after I see tonight’s season premiere, I’ll blog about this show again, too, like I did last season. I guess check back later tonight or … more…
Speaking of interesting ads I noted on the subway while riding bored… This one started out with just the regular Heroes logo, and then a week or so later, the “villains” bit appeared, apparently spray-painted over it (you have to get up very close to it for the illusion of the spray-paint to fall apart, … more…
License to Shill Explosions. Babes. Gadgets. Exotic locales. Nasty bad guys with German accents. A lovely, tuxedo-clad good guy with an English accent. Tomorrow Never Dies (starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, and Teri Hatcher) is a Bond movie. Nuff said. What it does, it does well. But it’s cinematic junk food that you … more…
Amusing, but it never approaches the deliriousness of A Fish Called Wanda.