Excuses, excuses...
Just to catch up on the last couple of months:- Both my children and my wife celebrated their birthdays.
- If's and But's WERE candies and nuts, so we all had a Merry Christmas.
- I've had at least 4 colds and was on some antibiotics for a week (at which point I experienced a full week of good health).
- I quit smoking again (the September quit didn't last more than a week or so). I'm currently on day 14. It's going very well so far...
- Canada won the World Juniors - I caught an exhibition game at the new MTS Centre in Winnipeg. Man, Sidney Crosby is something...
- I ate nothing but the aforementioned candies and nuts between December 24 and January 4.
- I discovered I've been running a bit of a deficit over the last year. By "a bit" I mean "ridiculous" - like NDP-government ridiculous.
- Tsunami in Asia kills hundreds of thousands...world falls all over itself to help. UN coordinates.
"Excuses, excuses..." my junior high geography teacher used to say whenever one of his students would blame his lack of sharp pencils, hockey tournaments, illness, or grandparent's death for not being able to complete an assignment on time. Well, I have no excuses to offer for being off the blog for so long. Actually I do, but they're lame, so I won't bother. Be assured: now that I'm back, I'm going to blog like never before. I'm just making that up. Good day, sir!
Advertising McCrap
Whoa...uh...Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc.Canadiancomment has a post that sums it up about crappy advertising:
Jarrod should be in about as many commercials as Robert Blake, he has that kind of effect on people.
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The only team of ad gurus that are worse than the Subway gang, are the morons from McCains who thought it would be a good idea to bring back the little kid who eats fries and doesn't talk.
Amen! I've long despised McCains' ads - anything they're selling, the ads are guaranteed to be godawful. And as for Jarrod, well, to say "this whole Jarrod thing has been getting old now for about two years" is a gross understatement.
Although, as you can see from this ad by Volkswagon, there is some good work being done in the field of advertising. Now that we've free associated our way from Jarrod to McCains hell to good car ads, well, I can't let things go without a link to the Dancing Citroen...why it's dancing on the roof of a parking garage in Vancouver is beyond me.
All this thanks to canadiancomment.
