circus

Did Andrea Mitchell just say about the news coverage of the financial crisis, “We shouldn’t be gaming it minute by minute?”  Really?

That was the word out on the town Friday night. Some folks at Agave said that the pop singer had lunch at T.G.I.

And in the process, turn this election into more of a circus than it already is. That’s what Katie Granju want to do.

Remember back when Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld did that TV ad for Shoe Circus. Apparently they did so good, they are being considered for a TV show loosely based on the movie, Napolean Dynamite, and the Fox TV reality show, The Simple Life. In the pilot below, Bill and Jerry are awesome playing the parts of Paris and Nicole.

My blogofilter is lighting up this morning with, uh, observations about the 90-second shoe-store advertisement embedded below. Personally, I think it’s one of the best ads ever created for a discount shoe retailer. How they got Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld to promote the Shoe Circus brand, I’ll never know.

It is reported that Brett Favre has been traded to the New Your Jets for a conditional 4th round pick that could be a 1st round if he takes them to the Super Bowl.  Also there is a clause that if they trade him to the Vikings they will give the Packers 3 first round picks.

Chad Pennington will be released today according to reports.

Alan Kay (who I’ll get back to in a moment) is credited with a great quote: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Dear Politicians:

I went to the 34th annual Bethlehem Fish Fry today, an event that helps
the ministry of the church. One of the members had shared how good the
food was, the fellowship, the events for the kids. I was going because
of her personal invitation.

Imagine my surprise when I got there to see dozens and dozens of

All snark aside, there is a world of difference between defacto and dejure segregation. Jeff Woods, however, doesn’t seem to see that difference: