A New Shark Has Hit Hollywood

Years ago, a new phrase came into existence. The reason the phrase was coined? Happy Days. The ratings just weren’t what they used to be. Fans of the show wanted something more. No show had thrown in a twist like this before. Fonzie jumped over a shark. It was so unbelievable. It was so unexpected. It was so … stupid. In an attempt to boost ratings and renew the show’s vitality, jumping the shark pretty much signaled the start of the end. Since then, any show on television that takes that path with some convoluted plot surprise has been said to “jump the shark”. Once this happens, you can pretty much stop watching the show because it is usually on it’s last legs.

There have been many shark jumping storylines over the years. Usually they are all unique to the show. Lately however, there has been a general theme that every show has seemed to jump on. Not that this particular story line hasn’t showed up in television before, it has, it just seems that this is the new “shark”. What is it you ask? Lesbionics.

Do not get me wrong, I am not making fun of, being prejudiced, or anything like that. I am just saying that it seems that whenever a show starts slipping lately, they bring in lesbian relationships. It happened on most recently on an episode of Desperate Housewives. Jackie was watching some DVR episodes so I saw the latest incarnation. A former stripper who is also a lesbian and is hitting on the ex asylum patient. If THAT is not a shark jump I don’t know what is.

With so many shows going this route, they are going to have to rename it from jumping the shark to … well something else. You be the judge. Give me some ideas. Short one tonight as we are going out to see a friend’s sister’s band. I think. Depends on how dinner goes. If we ever get there.

So, until next time … wow. I have no quote to put here. I am ashamed.

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How Much Is That Hot Dog In The Steamer

It has been enough days where I can finally talk about food again. I had an unfortunate experience at a Fuddrucker’s last weekend. Had a burger that was not the best in quality, or, some of the condiments were not as fresh as advertised. Either way, my Sunday and Monday were pretty much non-existent. It has also turned me off of hamburgers for quite a while. Most people who get food poisoning are turned off from whatever it was that got them ill. This got me to thinking, what would have happened if I had gotten sick off of something that I really love. Like Hot Dogs.

I could live off of hot dogs. I could eat them every day, as long as they are the right kind. It has to be a Chicago Style Hot Dog, preferably Vienna, on a steamed poppy seed bun. For those of you that for some ungodly reason do not know what a Chicago Style Dog is, first you should get out more, but it is the dog , with mustard, relish (bright neon green for real authenticity),  onion, dill pickle spear, tomato wedges or slice (NEVER diced),  sport peppers and celery salt. The bun should always be poppy seed and NEVER EVER should ketchup touch a hot dog unless you are under 11 years old. Occasionally, I will have a good chili dog, or some beans and franks, but those are never a substitute for a real dog.

Now, I am told that people in different regions of the country think that they have the best way to serve a hot dog. Please, sauerkraut on a hot dog? These are the same people who think that they know how to make pizza better than Chicago. Being the open minded person that I am however, I am willing to entertain the idea that there may be other ways to serve the venerable wiener. I open up this challenge, let me know your favorite way to have a dog (if it isn’t the right way) and I will try it. I will even buy the ingredients and prepare it myself. I promise I will give honest reviews of the culinary adventure.

Speaking of cooking hot dogs, a new device was revealed this week by bloom energy. (I am only adding this because I said I would say something on Wednesday and there might actually be 1 person looking forward to it) It is an electricity creation device about the size of a small freezer that could power your house. You could put it in your back yard. It can run off methane from garbage dumps. It produces half the amount of CO2. It runs at around 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. That would burn your dogs.

I know, that last bit was a stretch but it is done. It can’t be taken back.

That’s it for now campers, get me those dog suggestions. Until next time … Hi, my name is Squirrel. What’s yours?

It’s All Going Down Hill

Welcome again to another riveting episode of Techtainment Tuesday. I am going to start off by saying I will be writing an addendum tomorrow. Bloom Energy is supposed to be announcing some sort of revolutionary energy device tomorrow that creates energy and transmits wirelessly. And the kicker, you can do it right in your own back yard. This is all the info anyone knows right now. Yes, this is truly geeky. I will report more tomorrow.

On to the real stuff.

On Saturday, Jackie and I made our annual trip to Dave & Buster’s for a friend’s birthday party. This happens every year and we have been going for the last 3 or 4 or 5 years. I, myself, have been going to Dave & Buster’s every now and then, since they opened in Addison.  When they first opened, it was fantastic. TONS of video games, a nice amount of games for tickets, VR games, video golf (which I went and played quite a few times with some buddies in the colder months), and a host of other things to pass the time. For the tickets you did win, there were some pretty cool prizes. The food was pretty good and the prices weren’t that bad. Slide forward to this past weekend.

I had noticed the last few years that things have started to get a little cheesy. There weren’t as many video games and the “coolness” of the ones they did still have, just weren’t there. (personally, I think they should bring back TRON) We walked into the game area and I was shocked to see just how more sparse the video game collection had become. Most of the games are all shooting games, which in and of itself is not bad, but it was basically 4 games and they just had multiple machines of that same game. The games that Jackie and I wanted to play … one machine. One of the games I was really surprised to see that they had was Guitar Hero. Why? Doesn’t almost anyone who has video games have that at home to play for free? Or just play it at Best Buy and Walmart? Also, if you are good enough at it that you can play in public without embarrassing yourself, you aren’t old enough to be IN Dave & Buster’s after 9 p.m. to begin with.

Video games … FAIL. Once we played a few rounds of Aliens, we decided to go and add to our ticket cache. If I thought the video games were a fail, the ticket games … EPIC FAIL!!! When it comes to the ticket games I let Jackie play. (I would spend more on video games if they had some of the cool ones) We walked around looking for the particular ones she likes. Found one! Out of order. Found one! Out of order. Over and over and over. So, we decided to switch game type. Lots of games open that you need to get the tokens for first. COOL! Go to the token machine … yup, out of order. So I flip the switch to turn on the service light. I wait. I wait. A manager walks up. I think it is going to get fixed. He walks by and flips the light off without even looking. Now, I am sure that they get a lot of people just turning the light on to turn it on but at least check! So I chased him down and told him it was out of order for real. He looked at me like I was causing him severe pain by making him do his job. But, I kept my composure and did NOT break my New Years resolution #1.

Once we finally found a machine that was being generous with the ticket outlay, we sat and used up our “credits”. We collected our tickets and went to redeem our bounty. That is about all they had … a roll of Bounty. The prize closet was abysmal. It was like walking through a flea market at the end of the day. It was dirty, unorganized and everything was crap. They basically have gotten rid of all of the cute cheap little trinkets that you would redeem your tickets for if you were a tourist and just wanted a souvenir. Wait, I take that back, you could get a Dave & Buster’s ash tray. REALLY!?!?! An ASH TRAY!!!

The only “prizes” that were “worth” anything were Crock Pots, Video Games, etc, that cost well over 10,000 tickets, basically, things that would cost about 1/8 of what D&B is charging if you bought it at a regular store. They obviously do not care about the infrequent or one time visitor. They want to try to force you to come back over and over. If you don’t, then that makes them money too. They don’t redeem your tickets so it is all profit. I say all profit because they obviously do not reinvest a whole lot of money on maintenance. I understand that a business wants to have repeat customers. I do not have a problem with that. However, D&B has gone from being an entertainment Mecca to the quality of a strip mall arcade. Actually, I have seen some better strip mall arcades than what D&B has become. Might I also add that it cost me $3.50 for a freakin’ Coke!!!!

Wow, that was a long little rant. Before I run out of digital ink in this pen, I wanted to touch on one more piece of Techtainment. I was recently reading about a service called Chatroulette. Apparently you go to the website and with your web cam active, you are randomly connected to other “chatters” around the globe. I have not tried this myself as I am not a huge “chat” person. Also, the concept of this makes me a little nervous, and the reviews I have read have not allayed my fears. This is a webcam chat. Random. No clue what you are going to see. I have not read all the articles, but the gist is, that if you go on there, expect to see a large number of genitalia before you connect with a “normal” person looking to chat. And guys, that genitalia … mostly other guys. Honestly, with all the phones that can text that are out there, I didn’t think that people still chatted on line. At least not in that capacity. I use chat at work for quick answers to questions, but that is about it. Does anyone still use chat that often?

Anyhoo, like I said, I will be back tomorrow to condense the news stories on the “Energy Box”. Until then, remember, “Yes I’m old. Old enough to remember when the MCP was just a chess program!”

Calling All Designers

Short post today, but an important one, for me anyway. Now that I have a domain name and I am slowly going to be transitioning my blog, I need a new look. I want to start off with a logo of some sort for my web page.

The page will be called “voicesinmybrain”. I need something that will look good on that. Who knows, I may blatantly plug my page by setting up a cafeepress store so the “logo” will be used there as well. I am not as good as an artist as I would like to be so … here is the contest.

I am looking for a logo for Voicesinmybrain.com. It needs to be in electronic format obviously. It would be great to get an eps or some other nice hi res type thing that I can manipulate later if need be. (colors, size, etc.). Not many guidelines. I want to see what folks can come up with. Make it crazy, make it wacky. I am thinking along the lines of Herman’s Head, Max Headroom style of wacky. Now, here is the catch, I can’t afford to pay a lot for this, otherwise I wouldn’t be begging on here. However, I will offer a $30 gift card to like Lou Malnati’s or something like that. No real timeline on this at the moment. I have to first hope that I have some talented friends that want to donate some good creative.

Go ahead and leave a comment and let me know if you want to give it a go so I know who is working on something. Also so I know if no-one is working on anything J

Thanks in advance! Now, I am off to Dave & Busters for a bday. (not mine)

Until next time remember … It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

To Hell With The Groundhog!

No matter what the groundhog says, signs of spring are upon us! “A pox upon you! It is still cold out!” one might say. While this is true, to which my chilly, nighttime toes can attest, signs of the coming warmer months are cropping up all over.

First of all, pitchers and catchers report today in Mesa, AZ. That’s right, CUBS spring training is right around the corner!! As I am every year, I am excited. This is the year. It has to be, it was one of my predictions for 2010. I am pretty good with my baseball predictions. So much in fact, that I avoided having to have a tattoo of Ichiro Suzuki plastered on my left ass cheek one year. Soon, the rest of the team will be there, (at spring training, not on my left ass cheek) and then Pat and Ron will take us on that magical journey all the way from spring training to the World Series! I will also, albeit reluctantly, wish whi … whi … wh … White Sox fans (sorry, hard for me to say that) good luck for the upcoming season as well.

I have been leaving work earlier the last few weeks so I hadn’t really noticed, but last night, I was out running errands and I all of a sudden realized it was after 5 p.m. and I was not home yet. I tried to figure out how the time had slipped away and I didn’t realize it was that late. (I left work around 3:30) The reason, it was still light out! Indeed the days are getting longer. This is a sure sign of spring. Granted, it isn’t getting things warmer but still, it is a nice little bonus. Although, Tom Skilling did say that we are only 40 some odd days away from our first 70-degree day. As a side note to those of you that think it is a good idea to wear shorts on the FIRST warm day of the year … unless you fake bake with Snooki all winter, please don’t. Snooki … she is actually trying to trademark that name … and now we find out she isn’t even Italian. But I digress …

Spring also starts a little earlier these days thanks to good old “W”. Back in ought seven, they made Daylight Saving Time start 2 weeks earlier and end 2 weeks later. This gives us the illusion of longer days since the sun will set even later by the clock. Be careful though, this also means more unsupervised children running around in the streets later in the evening.

For any of you out there that might still be in school, spring also brings that time of year when Joe Francis makes enough money to pay all of his legal bills for the year … Spring Break. If you are a parent of any student, you may dread spring break. If so, I am sorry for mentioning it. Also a warning, if you are the father of a girl 16-25 who goes to spring break, you should probably stop buying those Girls Gone Wild videos. Serious potential for AWKWARD!

I can’t think of any negatives to the approaching spring. American Idol is already on and ruining my late winter, (which means it will be over by early spring god willing) Eureka doesn’t start up with new episodes until the summer (this is good because it won’t conflict with a lot of other good shows that are on now where I might have to choose) and the spring of 2010 brings the demise of the Tyra Banks show. (much to the dismay of Joel McHale and the rest of The Soup staffers. Thank god for Wendy Williams) See … SPRING IS GOOD!

So, grab your spray tan, go out and buy that first time of the year grass fertilizer, and pick up a few extra large garbage bags for that first trip into the backyard after the snow melts when the dog has been going out there all winter.

Until next time remember … To truly hock a loogie, one must not retrieve the phlegm from the throat, but from the soul.

Barbra Walters Drag Racing Halting 24

Welcome to Techtainment Tuesday. I know I missed last week because of my Lego Star Wars obsession but I am almost at 45% complete now. Thank god for walkthroughs. Don’t yell at me for using them. I am far to impatient to figure things out myself on video games today. When I was big into video games … never mind, that will be a blog for another day. Back to today’s topics most of which I hope you have already heard about unless, of course, you live under a rock. In which case I am providing a valuable service.

I will admit that there probably should have been a few commas in my title today, but then it wouldn’t have seemed as interesting. It will all come together as you read. I hope.

On the entertainment front … where to begin? I will start with the obvious, Kevin Smith getting thrown off an airplane for being too fat. I used to revel in the fact that I was a near dead ringer for Silent Bob. I even looked like Kevin Smith when he wasn’t in Silent Bob mode. Showed my mother a picture of Kevin with his wife once and my mom asked “Who is that girl you’re with?”. Now, after breaking a toilet and getting kicked off a plane, I am kind of glad I have not been trying to keep up with looking like him. In fact, I have lost 40 lbs since I most resembled the tubby bitch. One thing I have to say though, it happened, it’s over with, get it out of the news. I am sure this has happened to hundreds, if not thousands, of other “fat” people, but it is never heard of in the news. If it is going to be news, then let’s do it for all overweight people and not just center on one individual.

Barbara Walters (BaBa WaWa for those of you old enough to remember, here is a video if you don’t) has announced she will do only one more Oscar special. I don’t think I have ever watched any of these so I personally won’t miss them. Never been a fan of her to begin with. According to the stories I was reading, her View co-hosts were asking all sorts of inane questions like “why not 30 years”, and other such things. Whoopi was wondering how she could take over that show, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck was overheard saying “You had an Oscar show?” and then she started crying.

24 production has been halted because Kiefer is having surgery on a cyst on/near his kidney. Personally, I think they could have saved time and money having the Russian mob guy remove it when he had his finger dug into Jack’s side in last night’s episode. I am still convinced the cyst formed when he got that other Russian guy’s sweet, sweet eye juice jammed in there when it was still on the knife. I am getting real life and pretend mixed up again aren’t I?

In celebrity death news, we lost the writer of My Sharona and lead singer of the Knack. Doug Fieger succumbed to cancer.

On to some tech.

I LOVE MY DVR!!!!!!! I used to say “Why do I need a dvr? I have a vcr and a DVD recorder. If I need to record more than one show I can use two different TVs. I don’t need to rewind or pause live TV” WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?! DVR I think is the greatest invention since the Commadore Vic 20! Ok, there have been plenty of great inventions since then but still. The fact that I can DVR two shows and watch a DVD or something else is fantastic. And the amount of time I can record and the fact I can record in HD and … and … ohhhh yeahhhhhhh. Pardon me while I get a towel. What, I got excited and spilled my drink! Perverts.

The problem with DVR is that it is much easier to record one thing and watch another. Some may see this as a good thing. It is, don’t get me wrong. I love that … except when the wife, for some unknown reason, wants to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. If you don’t know who RuPaul is then you are lucky. Now, before anyone asks why I was watching the Logo Network, I was doing some things on the computer and Jackie was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which they play on that network. I think because of the whole Willow lesbian thing. Buffy ended and while I was getting the food from the delivery guy RuPaul started. A few minutes into the show, I looked at Jackie who had control of the remote at the time. I asked her if she was going to turn the Olympics on. She told me it was recording. I asked her why she wasn’t putting something else on. She told me she was intrigued. So, we watched a show about a bunch of gay men that would make Jack from Will and Grace look straight, dressing up as women so they can dance on a stripper pole in front of a crowd of men that I am not entirely sure knew they were drag queens. The show was disturbing. It was like an accident. You don’t want to look for fear of what you might see, but you just can’t look away. How does this fall under Tech? It is here because I am going to use the technology of parental controls to block this show so I never have to watch it again. Normally, I would have gone to the bedroom to watch something else but, I didn’t want to get rib sauce on the blankets.

Not sure what was accomplished here today. Some tears were shed, some nightmares have been spawned, and maybe, just maybe some lives were saved. So, until next time, I ask you this … “Did you ever suck the jelly out of a jelly doughnut and then fill it with chocolate swirl ice cream?”

Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes

Happy Friday all. They are predicting that by midnight tonight, there is a very good possibility that there will be at least an inch of snow in all 50 states at the same time. Yes, this does include Hawaii. Who says global warming isn’t changing things.

The fashion world was changed this week with the death of Alexander McQueen. Personally, I have never heard of him but, he made the news casts and since I am keeping track of the whole celebrity death thing, I thought I would mention it.

Another person who changed life as we know it died this week as well. Walter Morrison. Who is he you ask? I asked the same thing. He invented the Frisbee. He was 90. That would fall into the category of “he was still alive?” Even though I didn’t know him by name, I still thought he was long passed on.

Also changing this week, at least my page didn’t change until Tuesday, was Facebook. That is one change toward fulfilling my predictions for 2010. Now only 200 some odd updates left for the year for Facebook. I don’t really mind the change I don’t think since I don’t Farm of Fish or look for treasure. Maybe it affects them more.

Change is coming to corporate America in the very near future as Comcast plans to change it’s name. Welcome to Xfinity. Apparently Comcast is hoping that re-branding itself will make everyone forget about the horrible customer service that customers have endured for years. Personally, I have had very few issues with Comcast over the last few years. Maybe I was just lucky or maybe I keep getting helped by the few people who like their jobs and care about their performance. Either way, I really can’t in good conscience bad mouth Comcast/Xfinity other than their exorbitant pricing.

Speaking of changing names and updating branding … In the upcoming days, weeks, months, depending on how motivated I get, my blog will be getting some changes here and there. The name will be changing and eventually I will be moving to a self hosted blog. This will give me the availability to do a lot more as it will be more like a real website. It will still contain what you have come to expect (or dread) in my postings, but the new name will more closely reflect me. The new name will be “Voices In My Brain”. That will also be my new URL for the blog. The URL is currently alive and redirecting to this blog so if you want to get a jump on it and re-bookmark now, feel free. It is voicesinmybrain.com

The name on the blog will probably change this weekend. The moving of the blog itself will depend on the motivation of me finally signing up for hosting and then moving everything. So probably June or July at the rate I move sometimes.

That is about all the change I can handle for one day, unless of course anyone has any spare change they want to pass my way. Yeah, that’s right, I just cyber panhandled.

Until next time remember … Time may change me, but hippies… they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!”

Yeah You … Shook Me All …

For about 3 seconds. Yes I am talking about the earthquake that hit this morning. We live about 6-10 miles away from the epicenter, depending on where they finally nail it down. The dog woke me up about 2-3 min before it hit. Thinking she was just wanting to go outside, I ignored her and tried to fall back asleep. Just as I was drifting off … boom. Initially I looked out the window to see if a car ran into the house, a neighbors house blew up, then went around the house trying to determine which closet shelving collapsed. Nothing. Didn’t realize it was an earthquake until we woke up. I was a little disappointed that I was not more awake when it hit. I think it would have been cool. Jackie has been through a couple of earthquakes and apparently she realized it and claims she told me it was one. I didn’t hear her apparently since I would have stopped looking in closets and enjoyed it more.

That was my experience. I had to share. Now on to more pressing issues.

I missed Techtainment Tuesday yesterday. If there is anyone that really looks forward to it, I am sorry. I had a day off yesterday and I got caught up in laundry and Lego Star Wars on the Wii. By the time I realized it, it was rather late and I was kinda tired so I decided to postpone it. That and I was a little emotionally drained after watching the last three episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I will explain more next Tuesday.

Finally, I need to send my condolences to the Harris family. Captain Phil Harris, from Deadliest Catch, has died. He was my favorite on the show. It is really going to be strange without him being on the show. I don’t have much more to say on that.

I may write some more later today. Depends on how bored I am or if I think of anything mind blowing to write about. If I don’t, then until next time remember … it’s quite possible this asteroid is not entirely stable.

Geriatrics And Milk-A-Holics

Super Bowl Sunday has come and gone. It was a great game. The Saints won. Lots of my friends lost money because of it. The halftime show was interesting (more on that after my rant on the commercials) The commercials were back to being humorous … sort of. I was expecting a lot more from them this year. A lot of hype was put out pre-game talking about how the commercials would be back to fun this year. There were some, but others fell flat for me.

I have to admit I did not watch the entire game. I had no stake in the teams playing so we turned it off around the end of the first quarter and DVRed the rest of it. I am LOVING DVR but more about that in a future Techtainment Tuesday. One thing I will say however, and this can really be noticed when you watch the game at a later date, is that it seems that the game is more centered around the commercials instead of the other way around. I remember watching football and you would actually see them on the sidelines talking, watch some of the injuries being taken off the field, see the crowd reactions that aren’t placed advertising. Now, anytime there is the slightest break in action, the squeeze in a commercial. Granted this is the Super Bowl and they want the money … but still.

On to the commercials. I may have missed a few, or just don’t remember them if they weren’t that good, but a few did stand out. They are in no particular order of showing during the game, just as I remember to talk about them as I am writing. (You can see all of them here. I linked to the ones I liked individually below.)

First we have the much hyped and highly controversial Tim Tebow/Focus on the Family ad. I was expecting a much harder pro-life message that I saw. Despite my personal beliefs, I was a little disappointed. If you are going to throw a controversial message out there, go for it. Don’t wuss out. After all the talk about it, I think the soft message hurt their cause. But that is just me.

Next we have the commercial I was really excited about when I heard about it. The Snickers ad with Betty White and my main man, the defyer of the death pool, Abe Vigoda. Now I know they are both too old to actually play football, but I would have loved to see a little more Abe in there. I also would have liked to see a little bit more of Betty’s sassiness.  Overall, wanted more but still a good one.

Simpson’s And Coke. Since I love all things Simpson, and I am a Coke addict, this was a knock out in my opinion. Not much more for me to say on that one other than “Exxxxcccelent”

I don’t know about anyone else, but I was a little uncomfortable for the 10 seconds of the Leno/Oprah/Letterman ad. I understand that they have all had their feuds, but I just didn’t get it.

Doritos made me COL (chuckle out loud) with 2 of their spots. The “No Bark Collar” I thought was pretty good and I really liked the “Boy Slaps Man” spot.

Is Google trying to maneuver itself into being a dating site next? I don’t want to think that they will be the next great matchmaker. Too much creepiness when it is really thought about.

I almost forgot that I did like the Kiss Dr. Pepper commercial. Although I can’t stand Dr. Pepper. I would die of thirst first. But I liked the commercial.

That leads me to my favorite commercials every year, the Talking babies of E*TRADE. I am not sure why I like these so much but I do. They are hilarious to me. This year was no exception. My favorite of them was the “milkaholic”, That one was funny wolf style aaahhhoooooooooo. We talked about the Milkaholics, now is time for the geriatrics.

Moving on to the halftime show. I have to mention it briefly because I have learned something. I have to stop watching the Super Bowl Half Time Show whenever they have “classic” music acts. I was excited to see The Who. I have been a Who fan for years. I even watched Roger Daltrey as an immortal on Highlander. What I can say about their performance last night is … they had a cool light show. I hate to say it but they are showing their ages. (It looked like they even brought in Dr. Kevorkian on keyboards). I had the opportunity to see The Who in concert at Alpine Valley back in 1988 or ’89. I went with a couple of my buddies John and Mike. (Mike actually is the author of the Olive Oil & Garlic blog) Of course this was many years ago when they were probably around my age now. They were still good. Roger’s voice could still get up there. Watching the aging rockers, no matter who they are, make me cringe a little bit. They had a cool light show though.

Well, that is about it for today. Nothing profound, just wanted to get a few things off my chest. I am sure I forgot plenty of commercials and like some others didn’t and I KNOW I hated some that others liked. Let me know if you agree with me or not on anything. Especially The Who. I would love to hear from my more musically aware friends on that um … experience.

I will see you all at Denny’s tomorrow for the free Grand Slam Breakfast. Until then remember … Metamucil: It helps you go to the toilet so you won’t get cancer and die.

Are You Ready For Some Football … Commercials

Tomorrow is the big day of the big game…the Super Bowl. That probably just cost me a few thousand dollars to type. Anyhoo, I have never really been a big football fan. For me, the commercials are what I record the game for. If I go to a Super Bowl party, I don’t really watch the game, only the commercials and I pay attention to whatever else is going on. Hopefully this year’s commercials will go back to being funny and out there instead of the conservative and somber ads we mostly had last year. They say they will be a little better due to the economy so I am hopeful.

I don’t have much more to write about this I guess until after the game. If I remember, I will come on and list my favs from the game. Make sure you watch and let me know which ones you liked as well. If this link is any indication, then they should be good. After all, who can’t be excited about Betty White and Abe Vigoda in an ad?

Until next time, here is a word from our sponsor … Porsche. It’s a little too small to get laid IN it, but you get laid the minute you get out of it!