One More Detour on the Writing Road

...and it's snowing lightly. Could wind up with 3 inches by the time it ends later today. May be shoveling later.

( weather and Chili Fail '11 and other mishaps )

And for the record, I don't care who wins the Super Bowl. Won't be watching, not even for the commercials. But I was directed to this Super Bowl Volkswagen commercial the other day, and well, it's just adorable:

Timesink that it is, but...

Target commercial on TV. Song snags my ear. Google "William Rast 2010 Target commercial." Find Adtunes page with info about the song. Buy said song on iTunes. Total elapsed time? Two minutes, tops.

Entrance Song by The Black Angels.

Just checking in. Yes, I know the Twitter cup runneth over, but I was keeping up with Editor's tweets from San Diego Comicon, along with other stuff.

Tomatoes are still green.

Weather continues hot, although today was pleasant.

My stomach hurts.

The Illinois Lottery has a MegaMillions commercial that is the steampunkiest thing I have ever seen on TV. Well, I think it looks steampunky. It's the goggles.

I tried to embed the commercial, but the code wouldn't copy/paste. Best I can do is provide the link.



Summer is going by way too fast.

Working. Hockey game on mute. Caught a commercial, which turned out to be one of Danica Patrick's Go Daddy ads. I can understand her leveraging her looks in commercials, but those ads are prurient dreck.

Another ad that ran on Chicago radio stations had her repeatedly asking for directions to the same place because she kept forgetting them within seconds after hearing them. I don't know anything about her, but I wish she would appear in ads that made her appear intelligent. And not so much with the Bimbeaux.

Actually, the commercial is already playing, so it seems an appropriate time to admit that Leary is a guilty affection of mine. Yeah, he's a smartass, but. There's just something about him.



Denis Leary's Upcoming Hulu Commercial

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Sick of Toyota's 'Saved by Zero' ad? You're not alone.

As of Thursday night, the "Stop Playing Toyota's 'Saved by Zero' Commercial" group on Facebook boasted 5,141 members. The group's description states, in part: [N]ever before has a commercial this bad been aired so much."


Toyota is going to keep playing it, though, because they say it's bringing folks into the showroom. It stopped playing nationally on Nov 9, but it's still on local rotation.

The GEICO cavemen? ENOUGH ALREADY!

Love the gecko. You can keep the gecko.

But this is just neat.

Maybe companies twigged onto this years ago. You just don't hink of politicians doing it, though.

It's cool and rainy. Squirrels are still insane. I saw one bury a nut in the mop-end of a mopstick I left out on the deck--it just shoved the nut in there, then patted the strands back into place.

I've really hated the last few rounds of Hummer commercials. The ones where the wimps--a man who buys veggies and lets himself be one-upped by the guy buying slabs of ribs, and the woman who lets another woman's kid butt in front of hers in the playground line--get their glands back by buying Hummers. I also thought that the one where the dad and his kids release candle-heated mini-hot air balloons in a desolate wilderness area was kind of irresponsible given the number of wildfires we've had in recent years.

But, I really liked the H3 commercial that I think premiered today. Background music is the theme from The Great Escape. Bunch of guys trying to break out of the office for the weekend. I especially like the gate guard who looks like Steve McQueen and is bouncing a baseball off the inside of his guard shack as the H3 speeds through the gate. Organized insanity--always a hit with me.

Still writing. Closing in on 5000 words so far this weekend. I'd like a few more.

Two and a half weeks to go. And the Incident edits may show up this week just to add to the insanity.