Hammacher Schlemmer has brought to market what surely is one of the signs of the consumerist apocalypse: for $20, they will sell you a plastic tong-like contraption whose sole purpose is to form perfect snowballs. Read that last sentence again. Think I’m joking? Follow the link and the ugly truth will be revealed to your horrified eyes.
Month: November 2000
How the Grinch Stole Election Day: an amazingly funny and literate parody featuring everyone’s favorite green grump.
“The wonder of this race is not that it boiled down to several hundred votes in the state of Florida. It’s that it was a horse race to begin with. You have unparalleled prosperity, peace and a candidate who’s much more experienced running his fourth national campaign. And he blew it, in my judgment. It’s pretty deeply ingrained in Democrats that he blew this thing to an empty suit, an intellectually lazy frat rat who just happens to be the governor of Texas.”
-Garry South, strategist for California Gov. Gray Davis
Can you say statewide hand recount? I thought you could.
I just added a link to my photo page in the left navigation bar. Take a look and let me know what you think. I’m just getting into both digital and film photography, and I love it. I’m also going to highlight photo sites on the web I like.
Word of the day (or the year): chad
Newest scary made-up world on the web: “merchantainment,” coined by Ralph Lauren’s son David at this year’s Comdex about their new site, Polo.com.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Learning nutrition with The Simpsons:
Homer’s horoscope predicts he will die today. At the dinner table, he takes one bite of broccoli and keels over dead.
Dr. Hibbert (zipping up body bag): Another broccoli-related death!
Marge: But I thought broccoli was…
Dr. Hibbert: …one of the DEADLIEST vegetables in the world. It tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste!
So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that with a mega-hyped live action movie starring Jim Carrey coming out, the Grinch is being used to hawk Nabisco snacks and god knows what else. But the final straw for me came in a commercial which ended with the line,
“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store…..BUT IN CASE WE’RE WRONG, THERE’S VISA!”
We’re doomed.