Catchy headline, eh?
Was in Montpelier, VT this past weekend for a family wedding, and was fortunate enough to catch, from our hotel room window, the tail end (so to speak) of a nude bike race through town to protest rising gas prices and oil consumption.
Today, Ad Age reports that GM is considering selling off its Hummer brand. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
I’ve been getting the usual stream of spam comments on my blog, but lately they’ve followed a new trend: all the poseur/posters have Greek names. What’s behind this new tactic in the spammers’ playbook? Do studies show that people are more likely to click on links from Greeks? Why am I being subjected to the wrath of these ancient gods? Evripides, Athones, Aikos, please explain yourselves. Oh, never mind - I just jettisoned you to WordPress’ version of Hades.
From WordPress’s metrics page under search terms used to find my blog:
“microwave popcorn and facial swelling”
I don’t remember writing about that.
From CNN.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) — All sleeping pills, including the blockbusters Ambien and Lunesta, may sometimes cause a bizarre but dangerous side effect — sleep-driving, the Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.
It’s like sleepwalking but behind-the-wheel: driving while not fully awake after using a sleeping aid — with no memory of doing so.
The FDA ordered the makers of 13 products to strengthen warnings on their labels about two rare but serious side effects:
• Sleep-driving, along with other less dangerous “complex sleep-related behaviors” — like making phone calls or fixing and eating food while still asleep.
• And life-threatening allergic reactions, as well as severe facial swelling, both of which can occur the first time the pills are taken.
I would hope that some savvy pharma marketer somewhere can turn these developments into a catchy new direct-to-consumer promotion - maybe a mashup of Lunesta’s soothing butterfly with the Ford Edge campaign. But we shouldn’t joke about these things. Seriously.
For the past few weeks I have been waking up just about every night at 2:18 a.m., give or take a couple of minutes. It’s starting to freak me out. So I Googled “2:18″ and, not surprisingly, found a lot of Scripture:
Ephesians 2:18: “… for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.”
Genesis 2:18: “The LORD God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.”
John 2:18: “Then the Jews demanded of him, ‘What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?’ “
Thessalonians 2:18: “Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.”
Conclusion: I need to get out of the house more.
Last night I caught the new ConAgra ad featuring a digitally reanimated Orville Redenbacher, and I have to say it was the creepiest thing I have seen in many years. Poor Orville, who died in 1995, has been brought back to life as zombie-like pitchman by Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and Hollywood special effects company Digital Domain. The spot features Orville - a questionable choice as a spokesman even when he was alive - hip-hopping around a modern kitchen with MP3 earbuds and a bag of microwave popcorn. The computer-generated images are truly disturbing - he actually LOOKS dead, even as he’s speaking. My kids nearly ran screaming from the room; I considered sleeping with the light on.
From ConAgra’s press release: “Orville … would have turned 100 years old this year, making this a centenary cause for remembering him.” And someone thought this was a good idea?
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Thanks to Churbuck aka Spiderman for the link.
Apropos of nothing - I just love the headline. Don’t let this happen to you:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –It is considered polite to light a match after passing gas. Not while on a plane.
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said.
The King (Burger, not Elvis) was in the audience at something called the Big in ‘06 Awards on VH1.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch mea-culpa’d all over himself today, cancelling OJ’s “If I Did It” book and related interview that Fox was scheduled to broadcast next week. From the tersely worded press release:
Mr. Murdoch said: “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson.”
I guess that means we’ll have to wait a few more days to see it on YouTube. Fox will now return to its regular tasteful programming.
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