LOOK, I understand that it's in the interest of the NFL network to advertise during football games, specifically on sunday, but 360 days out of the year, I don't have HDtv. The commercials advertising the thursday game are preetty funny, don't get my wrong. The ESPN-patented "This is what's working, here's something ridiculous to entertain masked as an honest suggestion" will always be funny. It's funny enough to not upset me that I'm missing a football game, or will have to brave the fucking bar to see it if i'm really that intrigued.´
SO here's a bold suggestion: CBS, FOX & NBC all have HD channels. There's a chance if you're watching the big four in HD you have the NFL network. Could they pull off just advertising the thursday night football game on those channels? Maybe just do an "order the NFL network and the (regionally appropriate college football) network" advert on broadcast tv. Then you'll get two solid days of advertising out of it.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Headline Reads: Falling Novel Kills one.
1.
Aunt Nuria lived off an aspirator for years
and smothered under the tube last night.
She had skin that was like blue bic ink
and her mouth was agape, pink
around the white of what was a wad
that went the whole way down, into
everything she ever was. Obituary read survived
by one.
2.
She walked with a pad and a pen, then
had a laptop, then a typewriter, because
it gave the words weight. That was her
idea. But by the time she was bed-ridden,
she'd been on pencil.lin, because she
hadn't been writing, she'd been typing,
That was someone else, who
she misunderstood. She
inevitably would be.
3.
REVENGE at last: The heranucleous
survives. Life through the ingested
ball of paper. A decade
inscribed into a box. The maddening
end is both a death sentence and
an epiphany (mystical,
but with clarity) so she hid it,
like we do with all good things.
and there's the connection,
that and the artifact.
Aunt Nuria lived off an aspirator for years
and smothered under the tube last night.
She had skin that was like blue bic ink
and her mouth was agape, pink
around the white of what was a wad
that went the whole way down, into
everything she ever was. Obituary read survived
by one.
2.
She walked with a pad and a pen, then
had a laptop, then a typewriter, because
it gave the words weight. That was her
idea. But by the time she was bed-ridden,
she'd been on pencil.lin, because she
hadn't been writing, she'd been typing,
That was someone else, who
she misunderstood. She
inevitably would be.
3.
REVENGE at last: The heranucleous
survives. Life through the ingested
ball of paper. A decade
inscribed into a box. The maddening
end is both a death sentence and
an epiphany (mystical,
but with clarity) so she hid it,
like we do with all good things.
and there's the connection,
that and the artifact.
there's this guy, you might have heart of him
Basket
You should go
from place to place
recovering the poems
that have been written for you,
to which you can affix you signature.
Don't discuss these matters
with anyone.
Retrieve. Retrieve.
When the basket is full
someone will appear
to whom you can present it.
She will spread her wide skirt
and sit down
on a black stone
and your basket will bounce
like a speck in sunlight
on the immense landscape
of her lap.
Leonard Cohen, 2006
Book of Longing
You should go
from place to place
recovering the poems
that have been written for you,
to which you can affix you signature.
Don't discuss these matters
with anyone.
Retrieve. Retrieve.
When the basket is full
someone will appear
to whom you can present it.
She will spread her wide skirt
and sit down
on a black stone
and your basket will bounce
like a speck in sunlight
on the immense landscape
of her lap.
Leonard Cohen, 2006
Book of Longing
those flowing locks
you know what i think? they should have an actress play Thor. yes, they're making a thor movie now. iron man's a bad guy and he gets a movie. the hulk's a bad guy and he gets a movie. captian america dies and he gets a movie. thor comes back from the dead, just in time for a movie. impeccable timing at marvel.
at my dorkiest, i think katee sackhoff would be great for the role. most of that has to do with her playing starbuck on battlestar galactica where she constantly boasts and antagonizes colonel tigh into mutterings, not unlike the godchild himself.
really though, what brings on the impluse for gender-bending? THOR LOOKS LIKE A MUSCLE BOUND GIRL! pardon the outburst, but it's effective in a few ways. and honestly, any guy who can act won't be the right size either, so let's embrace it.
at my dorkiest, i think katee sackhoff would be great for the role. most of that has to do with her playing starbuck on battlestar galactica where she constantly boasts and antagonizes colonel tigh into mutterings, not unlike the godchild himself.
really though, what brings on the impluse for gender-bending? THOR LOOKS LIKE A MUSCLE BOUND GIRL! pardon the outburst, but it's effective in a few ways. and honestly, any guy who can act won't be the right size either, so let's embrace it.
The Art of Bringing the Rain Cloud
First, you must walk as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Of course, it isn't. Your heart and shoulders are light and carefree, so carefree, in fact, that you won't mind the inevitable downpour you're bringing on yourself and everyone else who shares your weather. However, you should assume the posture of a street light in anticapation of the increasing barometric pressure you thunderheaded thoughts are generating.
Dressing for the approaching storm: Your clothing is a function independent of the rain cloud you're attempting to gather. For the most part, adorn yourself in raiment indicative of the excitement that coalesces around a theme party particle. Really, whatever you deem appropiate will be so. If it feels like a wet t-shirt storm, then wear a white tee. If it feels more like a wet prom dress run through, make it so. It will be most certainly be soggy though, so over-sized black boots are a necessity and it's best to leave them untied. Let's let your friends in on it too.
The last and most important parts of the bringing the rain cloud are a full belly and an empty bladder. It's important to feel grounded. One of the realest and most visceral ways to do that is a hearty meal. However, since you'll be focusing on fluid transfer, it's best to go to the bathroom before leaving the house, at least to pee. You don't want to wet your pants accidently while you're willing the sky to transfer fluid to the earth.
Dressing for the approaching storm: Your clothing is a function independent of the rain cloud you're attempting to gather. For the most part, adorn yourself in raiment indicative of the excitement that coalesces around a theme party particle. Really, whatever you deem appropiate will be so. If it feels like a wet t-shirt storm, then wear a white tee. If it feels more like a wet prom dress run through, make it so. It will be most certainly be soggy though, so over-sized black boots are a necessity and it's best to leave them untied. Let's let your friends in on it too.
The last and most important parts of the bringing the rain cloud are a full belly and an empty bladder. It's important to feel grounded. One of the realest and most visceral ways to do that is a hearty meal. However, since you'll be focusing on fluid transfer, it's best to go to the bathroom before leaving the house, at least to pee. You don't want to wet your pants accidently while you're willing the sky to transfer fluid to the earth.
thoughts for the pre-school set
this means you nora-daughter-of-john
Do whatever you can to convince your parents/ teachers/ mentors/ everyone around you that everything you do is genius. Even when you go to the bathroom, you should be able to spin it into gifted and talented tinkle. If it's brown, before you flush it down, run and tell mom and/or dad just how great it was and how you even seem to know just when to squeeze your sphincter for the perfect brilliant length.
Why? (which, by the way, is a question your brain should never stop asking)
Once you have the educated people in your life convinced that your a smart cookie, they start doing the work for you. I'm not saying this to stunt your growth. Quite the contrary. Learn to read and do your times tables, but once you've got that down, start reading stuff in other languages, or learn to paint or play the oboe (do people still play the oboe?) my point is: convince everyone that your smart and they'll let your mind grow so that you'll be smart. Or maybe my point is that intelligence, like beauty, is in the organ of the beholder. I never know what half of the waste I spew means anymore.
Do whatever you can to convince your parents/ teachers/ mentors/ everyone around you that everything you do is genius. Even when you go to the bathroom, you should be able to spin it into gifted and talented tinkle. If it's brown, before you flush it down, run and tell mom and/or dad just how great it was and how you even seem to know just when to squeeze your sphincter for the perfect brilliant length.
Why? (which, by the way, is a question your brain should never stop asking)
Once you have the educated people in your life convinced that your a smart cookie, they start doing the work for you. I'm not saying this to stunt your growth. Quite the contrary. Learn to read and do your times tables, but once you've got that down, start reading stuff in other languages, or learn to paint or play the oboe (do people still play the oboe?) my point is: convince everyone that your smart and they'll let your mind grow so that you'll be smart. Or maybe my point is that intelligence, like beauty, is in the organ of the beholder. I never know what half of the waste I spew means anymore.
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