And by another one, I mean another kooky and zany tourist trap goes goodbye. One can only hope that its future self, a spot on a highway, will be just as crazy and send cars tumbling into the air.
Day: February 5, 2007
It’s the reason for the season
Chinese students are in trouble for giving each other pornographic cards for New Year’s Day.
In other news, Chinese kids apparently give each other cards on New Year’s Day? Man, and I thought the rituals of Boss’s Day were odd.
Irony imitating art
Granville Adams, former star of the HBO series “Oz,” could be facing some real time in a real prison after a scuffle he was involved in caused a man’s death at a Manhattan night club.
Adams allegedly was involved in a fight with another man who he pushed up against closed elevator doors, causing them to open. The man fell to his death in the elevator shaft.
Can you say, “party foul?”
A pair of grande mugs, please
While Starbucks has all the locations, smaller coffee shops are offering something that puritanical global empire can’t.
What a reach: literary analyses of Super Bowl ads
Now that the Super Bowl’s over, let’s look at the news reports. The sports pages have plenty to say about the game (Colts won), the entertainment pages are figuring out Prince’s name this week and the indoor kids are focused entirely too much on the commercials.
Our favorite reach:
“Then, too, there was the unfortunate homonym at the heart of a commercial from Prudential Financial, titled ‘What Can a Rock Do?’
The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, ‘Iraq.'”
The McBournie Minute: Super Bowl
Well, football is officially over. For those of you who missed it, the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears and Peyton Manning was named MVP despite doing virtually nothing during the game. Now what? What can we do to fill the football void.
More television. Forget those dreams of being productive, it’s time to find more shows on TV that you can watch while killing that bag of Doritos. Here are my suggestions:
“24” — Yes, it is one of those shows that you need to follow weekly or else you don’t know what’s happening. It’s on tonight at 9 on Fox, so I’ll catch you up. Jack was tortured for two years in China but was brought back to America to appease terrorists who later set off a nuclear bomb outside of L.A. Jack’s brother is evil and his father we’re not really sure about. The most unrealistic part is how quickly the federal government moves.
“The Office” — When I was in college, I didn’t really get this show. Who would want to be reminded of their long, nightmare-inducing day at work by watching a show ABOUT work? Then I got a job and saw, it’s therapeutic. More than that, it is the funniest show on TV right now. Or at least it is most of the time.
“Deal or No Deal” — Are you tired of shows that require thought? Do you wish there was a show that dumbed everything down for you? Look no further. It’s another one of those prime time game shows, but there’s no trivia, it’s just guessing numbers. On top of that, host Howie Mandel now looks like Mr. Clean.
“Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” — It’s on tonight at 10 on NBC and it’s hemorrhaging viewers. But I love it, so WATCH IT!