What happened to everything?

I haven't written in a while, but that's okay because nobody reads this anyway. Mixed feelings about Anna Nicole passing - on the one hand, should I feel bad? while on the other hand, why would I feel bad?

It's good to see Bob Nardelli taking some heat in his departure from Home Depot. I don't like Home Depot because a) there's never any help, b) I'm always afraid something is going to fall off of the pallett racking and kill me, and c) it's over priced. I can get a three pack of fuses at ACE for less than one fuse at Home Depot. They bullied out the knowledgable, helpful, little guy in many markets to replace him with a business model tailored for contractors.

Anyway, I'm glad that Nardelli's departure is again bringing some attention to overpaid CEOs. You look at his story and you're like, "this guy really didn't do anything all that special during his tenure, and yet he's walking away with MILLIONS!"

Nobody's here but me at work today, and I wonder if they have all quit. I am definitely not qualified to run my own business.

The price for terrorism

The whole fiasco in Boston did more for Turner and his networks than he could have imagined. The word of mouth spreading because of this is, the morning after the super bowl, giving Turner and his brands as much as if not more water-cooler-talk-time than any of last night's advertisers. Extinding the 15-minutes of fame by agreeing to pay Boston $2 million was a terrific decision, and well worth the investment.

It's not about Aqua Teen Hunger Force, or the Cartoon Network, with this one. It's about building equity in the Ted Turner brand.

RETIRE ALREADY!

You aren't that good any more. And everyone else has moved on. Your teammates aren't as good as they used to be. Save yourself whatever dignity you have left and just retire, please.

Watching you play is like watching a three-legged dog trying to keep up at the dog park. Or watching those birds at the zoo with their wings clipped trying to fly. It's just sad.

Toothpaste

I think the mint industry should sue the toothpaste industry for giving everyone mint burnout. Toothpaste should come in flavors of things that aren't that good for us but that we like to eat. Imagine what a better place this world would be with lard or taco-bell flavored toothpaste.

Biden for Prez!

Maybe when Biden get's elected president he'll name Mel Gibson as our official diplomatic ambassador to Israel.

That's disgusting!

Sarah Silverman is dating Jimmy Kimmel? What? And has been for 4 1/2 years? What? What a waste?

I would expect Jimmy Kimmel to date either a) some sort of walrus, b) Anna Nicole, c) Elvis' daughter, or d) some ditzy, blond arm candy.

Artists: Just say, "No!" to your own mediocrity!

The Shins are boring. They got on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago and made me fall asleep. They should not claim to be all artistic and that their music is all good and stuff when, in reality, it is boring.

Also the way they dress makes me want to beat them up and take all of their lunch money.

Fallon sucks!

Garmin's got a superbowl ad, put together by Fallon, the super-agency.  The ad is completely void of originality.

Read about Garmin's ad here: http://garmin.blogs.com/ 

Now look at this:



I have a real problem with the lack of originality here. This is a shame. Garmin is a great company that's totally been played by a lazy, unoriginal agency.  Garmin's forking over a small fortune for a spot to run during the Super Bowl, and sadly it's going to come off as a lame attempt at achieving the same level of "cool" as this Pepto Bismol commercial.

Fallon sucks.

Note: Jimmy Fallon is still cool