Not sure it has quite the Box Office appeal of "Snakes"...but if Samuel L. Jackson will star, the film version of the true story of a United flight that was taken out of service so that three ticks could be escorted off the plane should, err, at least go straight to video.
Well, since the airlines treat us like chimps, I guess we might as well pick bugs out of each others' hair while in flight...
Thanks to our bud John Groh for the catch...
Hey Budweiser...
Not that anybody watches the All-Star Game (only 12 million Americans)...but isn't there just the slightest bit of brand incongruency of taking a lead advertising position and stressing that you are "The Great American Lager" over and over, less than 48 hours after selling the company to a Belgian conglomerate? Couldn't you have, like, delayed the deal until after the game? Or brought back the Lizards in the interim?
I guess $52 billion in your pocket means you don't have to care about your brand anymore. But one would think that InBev should have known better...
Come Down Off Your Throne,
And Leave Your Body Alone.
The classic opening line from Blind Faith's "I Can't Find My Way Home," powered by Steve Winwood's ethereal vocals and Eric Clapton's acoustic mastery.
Sirius 14's Carol Miller recently asked Steve what that line means. His Response:
"I have no idea."
And yet...err, he WROTE the song.
Too funny.....
It's Ringo Starr's Birthday. His birthday wish?
That you say "Peace and Love" at Noon today.
After all he's given us over the years...it seems so simple a request.
Which I'm passing on to you...to pass on to your friends.
All we are saying...is give Peace a chance.
Thanks to Roy Williams for the catch!
First, the caveats. It's the close of a three-day 4th of July Weekend. The weather in Wisconsin this weekend has been the reason we put up with six months of truly horrible climactic conditions. It couldn't have been more perfect. Cool nights. Warm Days. Light breezes. Virtually cloudless. Nirvana.
Next, the background. While many travel experts were putting on the happy face that $4 gas wasn't going to keep people home, I have been increasingly cautioning that, for many, it would.
Apparently not this weekend in Wisconsin. My folks live in the suburbs of Chicago and I often find myself driving home from visits on Sunday evenings. Never, in 17 years of living in Madison and making this trek, have I seen what I saw last night (and captured at left). A solid, two lane stream of cars that extended from suburban Elgin at just after 8pm to Janesville WI (70 miles) at 9:30pm.
At times, we counted over 100 cars a minutes heading home to the Chicagoland area. From Wisconsin.
I silently thanked each one as they passed, knowing that our economy has been bolstered, my property taxes reduced and our collective Quality of Life improved.
Case in point: Last night's Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha.
The simply incredible 41 year old Dara Torres not only qualified for tonight's 100m Freestyle finals...she set a personal best time in the event.
Better than her time in the 2000 Olympics. Better than her time in the 1992 Olympics. Better than her time in the 1998 Olympics. Better than her time in 1984 Olympics.
Yeah...24 years ago.
Age Means NOTHING. Passion and Dedication is EVERYTHING.
UPDATE 7/4: Seeded third in tonight's finals, Dara takes first place and is going to the Olympics. Simply amazing.
From our friend Cole Carley (Fargo-Moorhead CVB)...gas prices are cutting into even the most basic of male urges. That's right, Nevada's Shady Ladies Ranch is experiencing slower than normal business since gas prices went intergalactic...and is now offering gas cards to increase business.
As Cole said, "they’re not going to take economic problems lying down."
Or, with gas cards....maybe they are.
Our "coverage" of Brandworks University over the past couple days pre-empted comment on the events of Tuesday night, when Barack Obama emerged as the expected Democratic nominee for President.
As the dust begins to settle, some thoughts:
• The whole concept of Super Delegates sucks...and subverts the American ideal.
• That said, it was the hubris of the Clinton campaign that cost her the nomination. I've watched most of the victory/concession statements in this too-long campaign...and whoever has been advising her on the tenor, timbre and tone of her public persona has done a disasterous disservice on par with Gore and Kerry's handlers. Honestly...what is it with the majority of today's Democratic strategists?
With the exception of Obama's campaign, Gore, Kerry and Hillary all suffered from personas that did not resonate with the American public. In Hillary's case, she was too often shrill and fell into the trap that so many women speakers fall into...trying to sound like a man.
It doesn't work. It never works. And why should it?
And, then, Tuesday night...she sounded like the kind of person we all wanted her to be. The campaign was clearly over. She dropped the attitude. She dropped the chip on her shoulder. She talked with us...not to us.
She was, at once, the likable candidate so many wanted to see.
And minutes later, Obama took the podium to announce his victory...
And I saw a different candidate.
Hubris had come to call.
That hubris misunderstands that a sense of being "right" will prevail when all the American public wants is to feel good. And "attitude" doesn't make America feel good. Authenticity does.
Here's hoping one of the two surviving candidates can find a shred of it.
• Oh yeah...besides the fact that Super Delegates suck, isn't it interesting that both the Electoral College AND the Democratic Nomination process have now both seated candidates that didn't win the popular vote?
Me thinks the rules of this game are long overdue for change.
Just a thought...
Bob Lefsetz absolutely nails it in his recent rant about American Idol. David Cook dominates the iTunes downloads. None of the bands that appeared with the finalists are even close.
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