What are you selling?

Do you all remember that old episode of The Simpsons from season 4 called "Krusty Gets Canceled." It is the one about a new rival show, Gabbo, starting. For weeks all everyone saw was this ad. Saying Gabbo was coming, and no one knew what it was. Was it some kind of product? Was it a restaurant? What? People start using the term "gabbo" in everyday language without even knowing what it was. Then it turns out it was a new show featuring a hand puppet.


Now we currently have two such commercials out there:

Who is that and what is he selling? This is America, I am sure you are selling something, tell me what it is. Today is 1.18.09 and I still have no idea what this is.


No really, what is G? I want to know. Apparently it is something about Gatorade, but how would one know by watching this commercial. Commercials are supposed to inform us about a product and convince you to buy something. If this commercial convinced me to buy something, I wouldn't know what to go out and buy. Stupid.

Award Season Continued

So apparently Larry the Cable Guy has some competition for the greatest actor of our generation. Larry the Cable Guy comes out with hit after hit. Yet today Kevin James came out with a beauty: Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Written, directed, produced, and starring Kevin James. You n=know it is a hit. Watch this trailer:



Wow, does that look like a P.O.S. Anyone who sees this should really consider doing society a favor and killing yourself. After seeing that, there is no way that you could positively contribute to society. I guarantee there is at least 1 toilet scene in there. Fat guy, trying to protect a mall all night, it has to lead up to a toilet scene.

The saddest thing about all this is that somehow the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gave it 2 1/2 stars. WTF? Once again proofing why the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is written by uneducated idiots.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Due to the wrath of Mother Nature I did not have to work today. It is cold out, the TV is telling me that the temperature outside is -9 degrees and the windchill is -33 degrees. WTF? I didn't even know those types of temperatures existed below Canada. It also seems as if there is no end in sight. Over night temperatures are expected to reach -15 degrees with windchills below -40 degrees. Around tomorrow at noon, we are suppossed to snap out of it and reach 10 degrees and only -5 degree windchills.

Just as a side note with work being canceled today, we do have to make up the day at the end of the year in June, so I am not totally getting out of working.

Idiots? I think so.......

Sometimes you read stories about idiots, and then sometimes you read stories about complete idiots. Here is a story from Monday's Journal Sentinel (was also on Monday's news). Basically this group of young people went up to an old lady and tried to convince her that they new her and tried to relate to a problem the old lazy is having in her life. They just want her address so they can mail her some flowers for sympathy. As soon as the lady gives her the address, the young people plan on going to her house and robbing her, because they know she is not home. These young people probably do this to people all time but most people don't fall for it. This lady did. These young people probably thought they would get a little cash and some jewelry, this old lady had $100,000 lying around. For shame. My guess is that we are going to see many copy cat crimes like this in the near future.

Also, if you do not know about the digital switch that is occuring to TVs in 2 weeks, you are an idiot. It is on the bottom of the screen during every TV show, it has been in the paper, I heard it on the radio, I got something in the mail, etc. Sadly there are extreme idiots that still don't understand it. It is as simply as if you use an antenna, you need a converter box. Period. If you have cable or satellite, you are fine. Yet yesterday on the news there was a 15 minute piece about what to do and who needs a converter box or not. Couldn't they just say, "Look at your TV, if there are two metal sticks coming out of the top of it in a V shape, those are antennas, you need to buy a converter box." The news even went as far as having a little test at the end of the program. If you are safe you saw a "Passed the test" image, and if you are not safe, you saw static. They then came back and explained what to do if you saw static. They then went on to ask people are safe to ask their friends and family members if they need help understanding the digital switch, and then helping them. If any of my friends and family need help understanding this, or are not ready, I will take them out back and put them out of their misery.

At least it's something

So I know it happened a couple of days ago, but I was waiting for the dust to settle on the Brewers signing Trevor Hoffman. Overall I think it was a good move. He was signed for less than Gagne a year ago, he has been more consistent, and has never been mentioned in the same sentence as steroids. It also brought out the story that players actually like playing in Milwaukee, and they are respected as a great franchise and city. I actually think he will be fine to close games, but I worry that this only beginnings the work that needs to be done, instead of just stopping here. I think Villaneuva is the perfect set-up guy, but outside of him, there really isn't anyone else in the bullpen to put in.

One of those articles also hints at with the Hoffman signing, the Brewers' starting lineup is set. What? It is far from set. There lineup currently looks like Gallardo, Parra, Bush, Suppan, McClung. As I see it that is 2 #2 starters on any other team, and 3 #5 starters. Gallardo is about 2 years away from being a star and a #1 starter in this league. Parra will be a career #2 or #3, good not great. Bush and McClung are nice guy to finish a rotation in the #5 spot, and Suppan has no tight on a major league roster. The Brewers badly need another starter, or even bring back Sheets at a low risk and low money for a year or two, until Gallardo is ready to be your #1.

Theproblem is that there really is no one left, and those left was super star money, and sadly will get it somewhere. I hope the Brewers don't overpay a subpar pitcher, but at the same time, something needs to be done to fix their rotation, which might be the worst in the NL Central. (That Nick Swisher for Cameron trade seems interesting, and also opens us to the idea of moving Fielder next.)

Fantasy Draft

With this whole little dispute between Time Warner cable and Viacom finally settled, I thought it would be interesting to look at what channels one would choose to have. What better way to do this is in the form of another Fantasy Draft.

Fantasy Draft of TV channels (Premium Cable excluded). You can only watch the channels of those that you drafted, and you CANNOT watch the other shows on the Internet or with any other means.

1. Fox (it's got 24, House, reruns of Seinfeld,baseball games, and football games)
2. NBC (it's got Heroes, The Office, 30 Rock, and some football games)
3. ABC (it's got Lost, Scrubs)
4. FX Network (It's Always Sunny in Philedekphia, various movies)
5. Comedy Central (Daily Show, Colbert Report, various movies)
6. USA Network (various movies, Monk, reruns of House)
7. Discovery Channel (Cash Cab, Deadliest Catch, Myth Busters, various interesting shows)
8. G4 Network (reruns of Arrested Development, Lost, Heroes)
9. TBS (reruns of Office, Seinfeld, Family Guy, but also the home of Everyone Loves Ray)
10. ESPN (sports, but you can check scores in the paper)
11. CNN (news, but again you could always learn to read and read the paper)

Waiver wire picks:

• CBS (CSI, that's about it)
• TNT (various movies)
• Local Networks (reruns of Scrubs, Simpsons)
• The WB (Smallville)

I actually think it would be a cool way to run a cable provider is to give every subscriber a certain amount of points, and they can "buy" the channels they want. If they want to buy more channels, they pay a higher monthly fee. Each channel could be a different point value, depending on how popular it is. This way you would only get the channels you wanted

My ear's are bleeding...

So we all made it through another New Year. I guess that Y2K thing was just a scare, but what am I going to do with all these canned goods and a generator? OOh well

Here is my list of the best music of 2008. They are not ranked, just good music that came out this year: (I hate describing music, because everyone hears them differently, so I have thinks to their videos)

• Hold Steady- Stay Positive
• TV on the Radio- Dear, Science
• Bon Iva- For Emma, Forever Ago
  
• Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
• Okkervil River- The Stand Ins
• Kanye West- 808's and Heartbreak
• Q-Tip- Renaissance
• Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
• Silver Jews- Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
  
• Airborne Toxic Event- Airborne Toxic Event
  
• Ryan Adams & The Cardinals- Cardinology
• N.E.R.D.- Seeing Sounds
• Kings of Leon- Only By the Night

That's it. I'm sure I left some out, but screw it, it early and it's a New Year. 09!


I watched this last night, and they went to Dick Clark a couple of times. Man, is that guy in bad health. I know he had a stroke a year or two ago, but many he can barely move his mouth or talk. All that plastic surgery has caught up to him. It's too bad, he is a legend.