Wednesday
As I’ve been posting throughout the day, I’ll just wrap up by saying that it was a good day. And now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…

Song of the Day
Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer, from the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack

Stray Toasters

  • “Welcome to the fold…” to
  • Actual headline from a Japanese newspaper: Super hero uses perverted powers, then transforms into invisible man
  • Does anyone remember – not too long ago – when movies were about the story and the characters and not the merchandising and product placement? Me either.
  • S. Epatha Merkerson, from Law & Order, reminds me of a former manager of mine back home.
  • A Joy dishwashing detergent commercial featuring a woman talking to an animated drop of Joy came on a little while ago. The ‘drop was talking about it’s long-lasting scent: “I call it ‘Aromatic Release.’” Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!? “Long-lasting scent?” “Aromatic Release?” What were the folks in the marketing department thinking when they came up with this one? If only someone in that meeting had said:“Um… I don’t know about that. No, really… I mean… it sounds like it’s talking about farting,” I’m pretty sure that they would have come up with another phrase for it. *shrug*
  • Telemarketers’ Revenge
  • After seeing this item (National Geographic is displeased that the upcoming Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas ignores its Arabic origins), and I got into a discussion of how companies have adapted/taken liberties with stories when they bring them to the big screen. Politcal correctness, go figure. We seemed to focus on the liberties that Disney has taken in adapting fairy tales and other stories into feature films. (Grimm’s Fairy Tales, for example, were not very pretty or wholesome, overall….) She informed me of an injunction that California PTAs had brought against Disney after Pocahontas was released. It seems that kids were upset that Pocahontas didn’t go to England with John Smith… ostensibly, to live “happily ever after.” The injunction prevents Disney from making any further animated films based on historic event.
  • Willam Shatner was on The Late Late Show tonight. Starfleet’s favorite rogue captain himself.
    Hearing him say “Hey, baby…” Hilarious.
    Seeing him try – unsuccessfully – to blow a bubble (gum), as an example of the way that he would try to meet girls when he was in grade school: Priceless.

Quote of the Day
This came from tonight’s episode of The Drew Carey Show. Drew and the gang were competing in a karaoke contest. Oswald (Diedrich Bader) and Lewis (Ryan Stiles) were singing as a duo… but Oswald kept crying every time they would get onstage. This led to a discussion about things that he could do to keep from breaking down the next time that they performed. Which led to Lewis breaking out with this little gem:

I never had a problem with my dad spanking me. I just looked at him and said “Work the other cheek… it’s lonely.”

He never spanked me again. He didn’t talk to me much after that, either…

Namaste.