IDWID: It do what it do

Here you go. Proof that anything and everything is available for sale. I don’t know how many of these will be sold, but one figures that if they are putting in the time to build and market it, they expect that someone will buy it. Read the rest of this entry »

As noted a couple weeks ago, I’ve had problems with someone in my building regularly stealing my Sunday newspaper. After months of putting up with it, I decided to take some action and call them out on it. Read the rest of this entry »

NBC, in its infinite wisdom, made some sort of marketing pact with Jerry Seinfeld and Dreamworks Animation to promote their upcoming “Bee Movie.” The promotion has turned into a series of lame sketches that are shown during “The Office” and other NBC series. This is marketing whorism at its most basic, but I simply have a question:

What the %$#@ is a “Bee Movie TV Junior”? Who came up with the concept, let alone the name?

And why, why, why?

Disney is a corporate media juggernaut, like Viacom and News Corp. As such a juggernaut, Walt Disney Company has more arms than, uh … well, a six-armed man. Yeah.

The Internet portal for all things in the Disney conglomerate is GO.com. What I can’t figure out is what the point of GO.com is. It’s your classic web portal … featuring a layout that looks like a cybersquatter’s default hosting page and the worst identity logo that I can think of. (A long time ago, the GO.com logo looked like a green traffic light, which was far better than that ugly, scripty, awful … thing they have now.) Read the rest of this entry »

The nerve of people. This just plain pisses me off. Every week — or close to it — one of my neighbors steals my Sunday newspaper, unless I get up early enough to take it before they can. Sometimes they leave me the front section and steal the rest of it (including all the ad inserts). More often, they take the whole damn thing. They never take my newspaper any other day (how nice of them). If I’m gone for the weekend and come back Sunday night, my Saturday paper will still be there, but I can rest assured that my Sunday paper will not. Obviously, they want the ads. Read the rest of this entry »

If you don’t understand immediately what the headline of this blog entry means, then obviously, you’re not a Duder.

Everybody quotes movies. But some of us quote movies more often than others, and some movies get quoted a whole hell of a lot more than others. Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to sports, I don’t write about them. It’s probably for the same reason that I don’t write about music. While I enjoy music and sports, I don’t feel that they fall within my area of expertise, so I’ll leave the analysis to people better suited to it. But I do enjoy watching sports, particularly when there’s something exciting going on. Being in a Chicago-dominated pro sports area, I was raised on the Cubs, the Bears, and the Bulls. Not so much the White Sox or Blackhawks. We’ll get to that in a moment. Here are my random sports thoughts thrown into categories. Read the rest of this entry »

If I managed to convert you to “FNL” with my write-up last week, this is your reminder that season two premieres Friday at 9/8c on NBC. Watch it so that NBC doesn’t feel the need to cancel it. Considering my high praise of the first season, I want to take this chance to retroactively undersell the show, lest you go into it and it ends up suffering “Pulp Fiction Syndrome.” Read the rest of this entry »