Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi had the award winning firm of Epoch Films make this commercial for J.C. Penny. It's an interesting little clip, but why would J.C. Penny want something like this associated with them? They aren't (nor will they ever be) A&F or AE, so why do it. Of course, J.C. Penny right away told Saatchi & Saatchi to remove it.
No, wait. I finally get it. Saatchi & Saatchi is/are way smarter than me. I doubt I would have ever typed "J.C. Penny" this year, and now I have typed it four times here. (And that doesn't count the times I put it in Google and YouTube.)
Sneaky little Ad guys...
On Thursday night, the 2007 college football season started with a 45-0 rout of Mississippi State by the LSU Tigers. Pretty much everybody knew it was going to end up like that. But a team can always hope.
Take for instance the video below. If your team plays LSU this year, you still have a chance.
How many jobs have you had in the past five years? Where and what did you do?
Submitted by M.
I have been at one job since 1996. I graduated fifteen years ago and went to work in a big city working for a international firm. After two years, I moved and went to work for a regional firm. Three years after that, I left and returned to my small hometown and went to work at my family owned business (actually, my brother and I now own the firm).
I'll tell you, the medium sized period of my work life was the worst. 'Tween-sized firms aren't big enough to provide the benifits of the large sized firms, and cannot match the quality of life of the small business. Large companies can provide security, experiences, benifits. Running your own company offers great quality of life and great pay potential.
My friends that work for medium sized firms still give you the impression that they are over worked and under paid. You always think, "when are they going to leave... The poor sap."
Anyway, thanks for asking, M. (as if we didn't know who M is...)
The Economist recently covered the 50th anniversary of of the European Union. Evidently the cover editor of the magazine was misunderstood when he said he wanted Iraq on the cover.
Normally, I thing of the British magazine The Economist as a very intellectual magazine. Typically, I find that they cover issues that are above the brain capacity of the average "Good Morning America" viewer. Well, obviously, a nice set of knockers transcends IQ. What is more amazing are the party hats that grand old dame, Queen Elizabeth, is sporting. Am I just a prude or do other people want to remember QE sans nips?
I hear August's issue will cover German Reunification at 20 years. Plans are to have the Kaiser's Willy on the cover.
Let me first say that I am a pacifist and normally a compassionate person. But as someone who has had one of the injuries depicted in the video, I can say they are scary, but still funny. Kinda like hitting your funny bone or a good puke. You're sure that you're gonna die, but laugh about afterwards.
btw, she was ok.
One of my favorite authors, Hollis Gillespie, wrote her weekly piece for Creative Loafing. The subject was the disciplining of children. It was such an eyeopening piece that I hope I never forget it. Every parent should read it.
Check it out here. Thank you, Mrs. Gillespie, wherever you are.
I sit down to make my goals for the upcoming year. Luckily, I find favorite notebook: the nice one with the goldenrod heavy paper in it. Sweet! I haven't seen it for while. Favorite pen: check. Coffee: check. Now to sit down and begin the great future ahead of me. I open it, and on the top page I read:
"If you only accomplished one thing thi"
I close the notebook and go outside trim the ivy.
Would you rather go back in time or visit the future?
Submitted by Auds.
Going into the past would draw me so much, if it were a possibility. In the past, you can be in the right place - at the right time. You can see your children as sweet little innocent babies again. You can go back to "better" times. Basically, you can take aim and go some place worth going. (Isn't that what going to Walt Disney World is, really?) (Ooo, scratch that if traveling in the past was Star Trek like, ala "City on the Edge of Tomorrow" where McCoy is psyco. That would not be fun.)
Going into the future is so, I don't know, unsure. When it comes to short term future - well, gee, we'll be there in a minute, anyway. A couple of years in the future? According to all the people who claim to know everything, it will be 120 degrees outside, everyone will weigh a quarter-ton, terrorists will have blown everything up, and we'll have no civil liberties.
Far future? I hope it's like Futurama. Being raised a Southern Baptist, when I dreamed of going into the future, I always feared that I'd jump past Jesus' return. It would be like, Bloop! "Uh, hello? Anyone here?" Then I would realize my folly. I had pushed science too far. Alone... Then I'd get a hover tank to drive around in, and blow stuff up. Maybe smoke and drink some beer. Yeeha!
Are you a re-gifter? Have you ever re-gifted?
Submitted by Sandals.
Re-gift? Never!
Keep for a year so you remember to give them a piece of crap in return? Guilty, with complete and unadulterated glee.
Show us a great smile.
See, I know this is a smile b'cos I said, "smile!"
