Love It / Hate It
Do you love Betty? Do you hate Betty? Either way you’ll chuckle at this:
Hairy?
Funny on a child’s toy, but even better if you saw it on something at Fairvilla Video!
It's Hairy
Crack?
Booyah!
Just read this on the PS3 blog:
New Ratchet & Clank game official; gets title
Submitted by Brodiesan on Thursday, 26 March 2009Ratchet, Clank, what more can we say?He promised he’d be back and, courtesy of Sony’s French PR division, news has just hit the tubes that Ratchet and Clank will be back this fall in Ratchet &
Clank: A Crack in Time
Another ribald name for my favorite game series, Can’t wait until the Fall when it gets released.
Cow Patty?
Here’s a Florida Agriculture license plate I saw:
Cow Patty's SUV?
BOHICA!
It seems a law suit has been brought against Best Buy and its price matching policies.
Here’s an excerpt of a supposed internal letter:
Price Matches
It looms on the wall, on a 9 foot sign. Our Price Match policy. There it is plain as day in English (Y en espanol para los de usted que puede leerio.) However, just because it is our policy, do we abide by it? Does it really help the customer?
What is the first thing we do when a customer comes in to our humble box brandishing a competitor’s ad asking for a price match? We attempt to build a case against the price match. (Trust me, I’ve done it too). Let’s walk through the “Refused Price Match Greatest Hits:”
Not same model? Not in stock at the competitor? Do we have free widget with purchase? Is it from a warehouse club (they have membership fees, you know)? Limited Quantities? That competitor is across town? We’ve got financing! Is it an internet price? It’s below cost!…
Pretty ballsy if it turns out to be true.
We were getting screwed by Circuit City. Now Best Buy is discovered to be doing the same thing. I wonder what H.H. Gregg has in store for us?
New Mormon Meddling Revelation
This from Joe.My.God today:
More Charges Of LDS Campaign Fraud
Californians Against Hate has filed a new complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission, charging that the Mormon Church created the National Organization for Marriage as a “secret front” for their anti-marriage equality activities in at least eight states. According to CAH, the church has not properly disclosed their costs in creating the organization.
The Mormon Church appears to have created the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in the summer of 2007 to qualify California’s Proposition 8 for the November 2008 ballot. They set it up as a Mormon front group, exactly as they did with a very similar organization called Hawaii’s Future Today (HFT) in that state in 1995. HFT was established to pass a constitutional amendment in Hawaii to ban same-sex marriage. Sound familiar? They have now expanded NOM into seven more states, specifically to fight same-sex marriage in those states. We are posting official Mormon Church documents on this web site, dealing with significant Mormon Church actives in Hawaii. These documents show just how the Church operates and they illuminate the replication of the strategy in California in creating NOM to qualify and pass Proposition 8.
Go to MormonGate.com, the new site launched by the CAH to provide documentation of their claims.
There’s not a lot of info yet on the Mormongate website, but with the mention of it on JMG’s site the word will quickly spread and that should change. Come on people. This “church” is waging a secret battle of hate. The way to defeat them is to expose their actions to the light of day.
Not So Practically Perfect?
A bit of news about the Chicago production of Mary Poppins:
Mary Poppins in Chicago to feature new song
The Chicago production of “Mary Poppins” (which is becoming the first national tour) is to feature a new song by composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, replacing the number “Temper, Temper,” which has been seen in all the other global “Poppins” productions to date.
The new song is to be entitled “Playing the Game,” and, according to producer Cameron Mackintosh, it’s going in all future incarnations of the show (and will probably be retrofitted into the Broadway production at some point). The number is getting its first outing in front of an audience at preview performances this week at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. “We think it tells a better story,” Mackintosh said.
I am wondering if this was done for staging purposes. In this number the toys come to life and the whole nursery “tears” itself apart as it stretches. Touring productions always have to make sacrifices on sets and props. Or perhaps it was just a bit too scary for little kids, though it’s still in the Broadway production. Or perhaps Mr. Mackintosh is correct, and it just helps tell the story better. I hope it comes through Florida in the near future. I really want to see it to compare it to the Broadway production.
