When the Sheep do something unexpected...

Chevy's 'Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial' idea not exactly going as planned



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What is this? 1995, and oil is still in the teens per barrel price range?

Did the braintrust at GM actually think that everyone still shares the belief that SUV's are the greatest ever thing in the world?

Did they think that the barking seals they consider the general public to be would fall all over themselves to fawn over the latest representation of suburban soccer-mom arrogance and disdain for others on the road? (Full Disclosure: Yes I am biased against these behemoths and their purchasers desires to be "safe" even to the point of endangering the rest of the general public by driving vehicles waaaayyy too heavy to do anything other than kill the poor bastards they happen to smash into. But they don't really care about other people on the road do they? As long as they and their whiny brats are "safe.")

And considering the braintrust of candidates on The Apprentice Season 5: So Very Tired... is it any wonder that no one is monitoring the slagging that the general public is heaping upon this un-needed and un-wanted piece of crap.

Why is every Apprentice challenge some kind of 2nd year Business school marketing exercise? Next corporate victim irrepairably damaged by this crew of disfunctional MENSA-morons is Arby's. Can roast beef survive? Find out Monday.

Andale andale!

I had a '97 VW GTI VR6.

It was Ginster Yellow, had black leather seats...and was stolen during a business trip to Laval. Tabarnac!

When it was stolen, VW had already transitioned to the MK4 platform (you 'dubbers out there will understand) and I didn't really like it. Plus the newer GTI's didn't look all that different from the old people-high mileage model TDI...

So I wasn't really into VW's for awhile (except to have some fun in Rue's 2001 Golf 1.8 Turbo!) but I gotta tell ya - the upcoming '06 is making me drool!

Rue has already mentioned the unpimp your ride campaign, and the Spanish campaigns even trotted out one of my most hated rodents: Speedy Gonzales. One of the commercials treats him as he should be treated - I'll leave you to guess which one I mean.

Enjoy!








You guessed it. It was that one.

Google deletes own blog

Google deletes own blog

As if I didn't come close once or twice myself...

Red Ensign Standard #38

is over at Minority of One

Fussball Malaise

I remember my family celebrating Germany's World Cup win in '74. I remember little else that year.

Glory Days Over, Germany Hoping for Soccer Miracle



And as the first Canadian generation of European parents, German soccer was one of the only connections I had with the "old country..." During the 70's Dad and I used to get up early Sunday morning to watch "Soccer Made in Germany", a show that used to run on PBS (?) before we moved to B.C. It was a one hour highlight of the best of the games that week. That was the show that made me a fan of the game.



Sounds kind of like Canada and hockey, doesn't it?



Many of my relatives have fallen to arguing with each other over the state of Germany since reunification. Some are even regretting the Berlin Wall coming down because, in the words of an aunt who lives in what used to be West Germany, the Eastern relatives are lazy, stupid and "eat and crap all the tax dollars I've paid since the war." An attitude that goes little beyond ruthless self-interest, but an attitude that is common from what I've heard.



And that's why I'm going to watch: because the Germans now have something at stake and are underdogs. Every goal will mean something, every win will be a triumph - they now have something more than a game at stake. And it's usually those kind of tournaments that are the most entertaining to watch.

Same ol' Dirty Tricks!

This is too funny.

I wonder how many people took it seriously.

I haven't seen either movie (Crash is sitting on the PVR awaiting two hours of attention span that can be strung together sans children...) so I can't render a verdict either way, but the "for" and "against" hyperbole and conspiracy theories are quite entertaining. I mean the election bloggers haven't had anything to do since 2004...

After all it is only a movie.

As for the commentary that "red-states" prevented Brokeback from winning, are the judges who select the winners beholden to anyone in the red states?



Hardly a bastion of right-wing zealotry.

OK. I pose the question.

Which movie was better? Brokeback Mountain or Crash?

No conspiracy crap, homophobia, politics et al.

A straight up (no pun intended) decision as to which movie was better and why. I intend to see them both, so I have no vested interest either way.

Have at 'er!

Origami

From cnet





Now, who wants to sign up to test the bleeding edge of technology?

Creepy Dads

Creepy



Super-mega creepy!



That sound you heard is the regular, normal Dad's of the world (I am one) having to stifle themselves from proclaiming what ought to be very very apparent: children are not to be viewed or considered in such a way by a parent and the parents who do say such things (in PUBLIC!! dear God, in PUBLIC!!) about their children ought to be watched...very...very...carefully.

Every father likes to think his little girl (or girls in my case) are the most beautiful examples of the human race ever blessed upon us. I could watch my little girls smile and play all day through.

But the creepy sex-talk from these dads sound like they're viewing their daughters the way a strip-bar patron might cat-call a dancer from Gyno-row.

Shame.

It'll probably cost 69 gabillion dollars

When my Super-Villianing finally starts to generate some real hard currency flow (rather than the terrified shopkeeper IOU's that seem to make up the balance of my Villiany assets) I want one of these



That, and they invoked Steve McQueen. And the movie Le Mans

Now what they should do is have a James Bond-version for Casino Royale with some kind of remote spying device, or remote detonation controller, yeah! That's the ticket!

Battle Royale

There was a time where the term "foreign film" would send me screaming from the room...I'd always picture some long boring pretentious piece of existentialist crap that I would be forced to talk about over coffee afterward (God I'm glad that I'm not in the dating world anymore...Feigning interest in boring conversations for the hope of potential physical contact at the end of the night is so tiring...)

I think the Family Guy writers must've been tortured the same way by Foreign and Independant Cinema when they did the film "Lint" as a parody in one of their episodes - BTW I found a live action version here - ahhh, student cinema...

Well I've changed my tune in the last few years: There's no way in hell Battle Royale would ever be made here in North America...especially after Columbine. But I'd heard of this movie on several websites and decided to rent it. I wasn't disappointed.

Holy crap what a ride. And I love Chiaki Kuriyama



See that look in her eyes? She's about to neuter a guy who attempted to rape her because he made the mistake of scarring her face...Leg crossing time!

It was from this film that Quentin Tarantino decided to cast her as Go Go Yubari in Kill Bill Vol 1, where she played the only character that I thought was a good match for Uma Thurman's Bride (in the first movie - Darryl Hannah was totally convincing in Vol 2.)

I think that my attitude toward foreign films changed when I first saw Akira Kurosawa's Ran at the ripe ol' age of 22 - old enough to know something good when I saw it and young enough to be open to something new - coincidentally on IFC right now as I write this.

Think of a better King Lear than Shakespeare's King Lear and you'll get the idea.

I had more to say about the advantage of looking beyond Hollywood and even the English language for good quality films, but I have to go watch Ran again.

Great.

Another night of staying up 'til 2am watching samurai movies.

I'm going to have to go out and learn Japanese.