Thursday, September 29
coq roq
forget summer's pink panty marketing trend: the new thing for fall is dial-a-song (first reported by yours truly last week). the latest place i've spotted the (still shockingly cool, i think) technology is on Burger King's "Coq Roq" site - cp+b's latest wacky addition to their stable of chicken weirdness (see subserviant chicken). the difference from 411 song is that, as far as i can tell, 1-888-ROQRANT is free! i'll let somebody else test that out (hey, i'll be unemployed in a matter of hours) - let me know what you find out!
thanks to Greg Kirksey for pointing me to Coq Roq!
Thursday, September 22
thanks, craig
i'm a recent craigslist convert (think classified ads, but free and grassrootsier). a gem from the richmond board: this person, who's offering piano lessons in trade for a henrico ibook (they're willing to kick in the $50 selling price, plus an amount of lesson time equal to the time the seller spent in line for the ibook). call me crazy, but i'm gonna go ahead and say that the savages who made it to the front of the line to get an ibook aren't really the piano-playing type.
shamelessly self-serving use of blog space: my own post on craigslist, to unload my used VAIO laptop. works fine, i just eventually overloaded the 10gb harddrive and had to wipe it clean and start over on a newer, higher-capacity laptop. make me an offer.
another idea i wish i'd thought of...
no more racking your brain to identify that song wafting out of the ceiling speakers at ukrops: now you've got 411song. for just $.99, you can dial up 866-411-song and hold your cell phone up for a few seconds, and the magic on the other end of the line will identify the tune and send you a text message with all the pertinent details. SO COOL! no word on whether it works with muzak versions (zeppelin loses some of its edge when translated onto violin).
via daily candy
Thursday, September 15
he's no fool
i'm secretly excited for the new Mr. T. reality show ("I Pity The Fool", on tvland this fall), in which he will integrate himself into people's lives to help them with a problem. in one episode, he goes to work with a woman who's being sexually harrassed, and tells her piggish coworkers "Don't be disrespecting no lady, fool!" He's also vowed to give up his gold chains in the wake of katrina's devistation, claiming they are "an insult to God". i can't wait!
in other shameful celeb-tv viewing, i just finished watching the entire run of kathy griffin's "My Life on the D-List". i don't know how i ever got sucked in, since i used to not be able to stand the sight of her, but she has quickly moved up to my own a-list. how could i not like someone so catty and insulting?! she's still hard on the eyes (esp in the season finale when she runs around sans makeup), but she's a total riot. give her a chance if you haven't already.
Tuesday, September 6
the apple doesn't fall far from the bush
it's (almost) hard to judge GWB too harshly when his own mother shows this kind of outrageously smug class-ism: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is [the hurricane refugees] all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality... And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." and they get free pizza! some people have all the luck.
Thursday, September 1
apache boy
i came across this several months ago, and though we laughed ourselves sick over it around here i never got around to blogging it. so here, without further ado, is the best music video you've ever laid eyes on!! and the SONG, that song!! i only remembered to blog about it today because i found myself humming that infectious tune which, as kristin can attest, you can never quite place at first but then it will come screaming back to you: APACHE BOY. enjoy!