The Detroit Lions certainly have a catch in wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Early last season, there was a bit of a controversy regarding one of his catches, and whether it was a completion or not:
But I recently saw this commercial, and it surprised me:
Did it surprise me because they didn’t mention Johnson played for the Lions? No.
Did it surprise me because the Lions are owned by the Ford family and Acura is owned by Honda? Sorta.
Did it surprise me that Calvin Johnson would drive an Acura? Yes.
Of all the cars out there, it stunned me that an NFL player would choose to endorse Acura. That’s the latest controversial call.
Now an Olympic skier, on the other hand, I can see… (and Ashleigh McIvor’s a Canadian to boot):
I’ve had a busy week, but keep in mind it’s all for all of you! Here are a few of my Happy Finds…
1) If I could be a pinky’s worth of whatever makes up The Most Interesting Man in the World, I would be a happier man. I’m already a happy man because I’m not this guy:
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2) I once posted about a Happy Find upon discovering Garfield Minus Garfield. I also painstakingly edited Garfield into other comics before I discovered the Adobe Suite (MS Paint all the way). Now I present to you – Garfield Minus Garfield: The Movie…
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The next two are self-explanatory. Well, I guess the above two were self-explanatory as well.
This got me thinking… what other foregone technologies would I like to see return?
1) Spindle
In fairy tales, they were able to spin straw into gold. They also acted as GHB when it came to princesses. So maybe they shouldn’t come back.
2) Dick Tracy Copmobile
With technology like that, kids’ imaginations had to flourish. (See the original toy commercial down below.)*
3) Top Loading VCR’s
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” “The VCR heads!”
Nostalgia and functionality and purpose aside… look at how easy it was to use? With all those dials and switches and buttons, you could set the clock! (Ra-tat-tat-CRASH!) Of course I want it back for nostalgic reasons (but still not functionality and purpose).
4) Libraries
The Dewey Decimal System was "thisclose" to being the Huey Whole Number System. The Louie Lottery System wasn't even close.
There’s something terribly wrong with kids today, and I stand by two reasons why:
Siblings each having their own bathroom growing up, instead of fighting to share one.
Libraries aren’t used as social gathering places anymore.
Wait, what? Libraries still exist? I thought the Internet would have surely killed them. My bad.
SIDENOTE: While we await the Instant Cameras’ re-release, why not pick up this camera that logs every moment of your life? It’s like YouTube meets Twitter!
You know you want it
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This post was originally going to be about my investigation into the ripping off of Bruce Hornsby (and the Range)’s Mandolin Rain (or is it Tupac’s Changes?) in Proactiv Acne Solutions’ commercials, but then I stumbled onto a greater conspiracy.
What do these young ladies’ have in common?
LiLo, KelCla, JeLoHew
They had stellar careers, booming out of nowhere, sky’s-the-limit…
Then they did Proactiv commercials.
How have they fared since?
LayLow - Kelly Clark Bar - Mrs. Jamie Kennedy?!
(SIDENOTE: You may have noticed Jessica Simpson was also in their commercials, but did she really ever have a career?)
My biggest concern of late is this cutie:
Julianne Hough of "Dancing With My Heart"
She’s been in Proactiv commercials, and although she’s well-known (?) amongst Dancing with the Stars, country music, and Juicy Fruit fans, I hope to see more from her in the entertainment world.
Ultimately, this comes down to whether or not I’m reading into this (Coinkydink) or I’m onto something (Coinkydonk).
You may or may not have taken the “Awareness Test” before, but I couldn’t suggest it more. It was put together by this country’s forefathers’ forefathers’ (and foremothers’) decendents, over yonder, across the pond. (I’m talkin’ ’bout the Brits, you idiot!)
Anywhosyerforedaddy, I failed the test. Terribly. See how well you fare:
I remember being a lad of about 29 years old, and I finally gathered the nerve to ask my mom, “Where do babies come from?”
I often think back to my childhood, and remember Saturday mornings as a kid. Rolling out of bed from underneath my taped together Garbage Pail Kid posters. Grabbing a box of Cocoa Krispies and the biggest bowl I could handle. Turning on the TV without a remote control because we had none. Zoning out to crappy yet awesome cartoons and the commercials that sold me on Transformers and Star Wars and Centurions and M.A.S.K. with little to no effort. Then there would come along one of these ads:
Granted, it’s not one of the most heartwarming, but very often, they’d catch me by surprise and effect me on a personal level. Gee, maybe I should help my neighbor shovel the snow instead of throwing snowballs at them from my fort, I might consider. What I didn’t realize at the time was that it was a COMMERCIAL FOR A RELIGION! If I wasn’t born and raised RoamingRecovering Roman Catholic, seeing Jesus H. Christ’s name up there might have been a red alert, but I was, so it didn’t. (Also, I wasn’t raised in a way that told me we were the only ones that were right, so at least I had that going for me.)
So now this little vid is making it’s way around the web. I recieved it via a link in an email from frequent idea spurner Dave, and I watched it in similar wonder to the old LSD, er, I mean LDS commercials. It was beautiful, and in fact made me happy to be alive. Damn YouTube and their header captions:
I guess what I’m saying is it’s much more effective than this old thang:
In other words, how can so many inches of Tom Cruise can be wrong? (My guess: 60 of his 67…)
To start off… I know, I know, the last two posts have been kind of lady-centric (which literally meant something way different back in the Old West… say it slowly), so why stop now on this Memorial Day. In addition to the current state of this blog, my last Musical Musings was about songs sounding the same that may or may not have sounded the same. Don’t hold that one against my credibility. Heck, don’t even believe that I have any credibility. But this time – I think I’m onto something.
Listen to the background music in this Maybelline commercial featuring Adriana Lima (hey guys, at least it’s featuring a Victoria’s Secret model… and a golf ball for some reason):
Now take a listen to Regina Spektor’s On the Radio:
(For the record I was at that Lollapalooza concert performance. I think you can see me in the crowd at the end. I’m the guy in a striped shirt, clapping. My face was a little blurry that day, so I kind of blend in.)
Now I dare you to go back and listen to the Maybelline commercial and see how they ripped her song off. (Maybe I should have put them on this page in the opposite order… oh well, deal with it.)
The song is definitely not the original, and amazingly, it’s coincidentally similar. Kind of like these posters:
Okay, it’s even closer than these two posters… but still.
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