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I am not the brightest man you'll ever meet or the most insightful, so I won't try to be and simply say that these new ads from Microsoft are great (although they don't directly advertise anything). The concept behind them, just being purely wacky and therefore making Microsoft a more approachable, cooler company is genius though, and they're very well done. I look forward to watching more of them hopefully.
A great book by an awesome writer I am lucky enough to call a friend has released "Violet In Private" this week, #3 in a series of 3 about the life and times of Violet Greenfield - a fresh-faced 19 year-old runway model headed to Vassar College. Those of you who know me know that I can barely read, and when I do read it's usually about fun things like the technicalities of disease and pestilence, but I really enjoyed reading these books. So, if you haven't read "Violet On The Runway" or "Violet By Design" you should click on the box below or to the left and order those from Amazon.com (or any other bookstore, Melissa just gets some sort of credit with Amazon if you click though the box) and pick them up. They probably won't change your life dramatically, but they will make your day a little brighter... :)
No way you'd see people this weird in the hipper parts of Manhattan or Brooklyn -- this is upstate weird; detached form reality in a scary/awesome way weird.
Middle aged people originally from Denmark who now support themselves making stained-glass portraits of the Virgin Mary in their back shed, who unwind after a long day of "work" with a crushed-up oxycontin stirred into a glass of Slo Gin mixed with RC Cola, while listening to bad world-music inspired drum and bass weird. David Lynch weird.
And I love it.
Yesterday Naval Academy "Plebes" attempted to scale a 21-foot-tall, lubed up obelisk. There is nothing homo-erotic about this, these young, virile, greased up young men working as a team to conquer this hard, slippery, historical erection, I can assure you.
Credit Angus with this =0
"The face of a man is usually an open book to most women.
They can read practically anything in our faces.
I’ve known ladies who could tell the size of my penis, bank account and the status of my sex life by taking only one look at me.
Of course, the look was followed by the lady’s departure in the opposite direction."
Wow.
I'm not too into video gaming anymore, but I do have to say that what Rockstar is doing leading up to the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV is most impressive. I especially like the following news widget:
I just came across this article about a 72-year-old man who was arrested for possessing and transporting what appears to be a couple of hundred pounds of marijuana. The gentleman probably would not have been caught if he hadn't popped the trunk to his car and asked the officer to assist him with removing the duffel bags the weed was in while his car was being impounded (any weed that's bunched-up into bales is also probably not of the highest quality) but no matter. The fact that a 72-year-old guy was hauling this much weed up-and-down the eastern seaboard is just plain awesome, and anyone that doesn't think so is probably a member of Al-Qaeda.
I really should be posting more regularly about more diverse subjects than weed and how to effectively break the law, and in time I plan to, but for now - baby steps.
Ok, why she may possibly not win anyway. I'm not writing off the Clintonses... they've got some evil devil powers and dark magic. Hillary reminds me of the voodoo woman with the wooden leg who kills Harry Dean Stanton in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart."
But Hillary just isn't cool. And Obama is pretty much the coolest dude ever. Compare these two photos from their youths:
This isn't going to cut it:
Hillary's like this midwestern mom who picks out the worst clothes when she drags her kids shopping, all the while referring to them as being "sharp."
Obama is the guy who is like, "dude, don't go shopping with your mom, lets smoke this joint, walk around the supermarket with our johnsons hanging out, hit on some cougars, shoplift beer and junk food and inhale all the nitrous oxide out of the whipped cream dispensers. Who is with me!!!"
