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This year’s Superbowl ads started off with a highly anticipated trailer.

• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It looks …OK. I’m not going to pan it just on this trailer but it could have been better.
• Hyundai Genesis You know. Fuck it. The car commercials all sucked this year. I’m just not going to mention any of them.
• Bud Light Don’t buy Bud Light for every meeting. This was a good one.
• Angels & Demons Trailer I never saw DaVinci Code so I can’t really comment on this.
• Jason Stathum Audi Forget what I said. There was ONE good car commercial. Statham basically shilling his Transporter role for what would have been a great car commercial any year.
• Forever Young: Pepsi Pepsi really failed this year. They only had one good commercial and this wasn’t it. To quote a fellow viewer, “Well that was a waste of 6 million dollars.”
• Doritos: Crystal Ball. While Pepsi’s soft drink marketing department sucked balls, the FritoLay division was kicking ass. One of the best of the night.
• Bud Light: Sweden I love Conan, and this was a brilliant ad. SKILLNADEN ÄR DRINKABILITY VROOM VROOM
• Movie Trailer: Year One Looks like a pretty funny History of the World: Part 1 redux.
• Bridgestone Tires: Mr. Potato Head Creative premise and it was pretty funny and memorable. Bridgestone had a good ad firm this year.
• Fast & Furious Four: The Fuck? Really. I think that’s the actual title.
• Castrol Oil: Grease Monkeys Pretty funny, nothing special but it was a pretty good one.
• Land of the Lost Please stop letting Will Ferrell make movies. Please.
• Doritos: Power of the Crunch This one was pretty good and was the first commercial this year to feature someone getting hit by a bus. Doesn’t top Doritos other offering though.
• Pepsi Diet Max Diet Cola for Guys. This was the best ad Pepsi put out tonight. It was better than the worst Coke ad. Good job guys!
• Pedigree Maybe you should get a dog. I liked it. It was cute.
• Budweiser: Showoff/Fetch Probably the best of the beer commercials (They were all pretty good though.)
• Budweiser: Daisy the Dancing Horse This one was great I enjoyed the epic “Last of the Mohicans: I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.” thing going on here. :)
• Star Trek I’m liking this revamp.
• Gatorade It was kinda forgettable. Hey lets flash a bunch of celebs/athletes on the screen.
• Cars.com: Confidence It was ok. The best part was when he applied to Princeton out of High School to be the Dean
• e*trade Not a fan of the talking baby commercials.
• Movie Trailer: Up This looks like a cute movie. Seems like it should have been a Hayao Miyazaki movie
• Bud Light: Drinkability The Madden marker things been used in a couple ads already so the newness of the gimmick isn’t there. Not the best BL ad, but still pretty good.
• Death and Taxes HR Block. Do people really need to be reminded of the only two certain things?
• Teleflora.com What do flowers in a box say? Good premise, the crudeness was a little shocking to the over 50 crowd. I liked it though.
• Cheetos: Attack of the Pigeons I love the passive aggressive Cheetos ads. This one did not disappoint.
• Monsters and Aliens I saw it with my 3-D glasses on. It looks like a fun movie though. I plan to see it. :)
• SoBe 3D Not as good as the “Thriller” one from last year but unless they were going to do “Grease Lightning” or “Footloose” I don’t think they’d top it. Last year they could have Rick Rolled us but that’s played now.
• Nextel: Rocking the Runway Entertaining. I kinda missed this one and it doesn’t seem to be on Hulu so I can’t rewatch.
• Priceline: Bill Shatner Fucking great. He’s such a whore, but he has a great sense of humor. I only wish it had been Takei imitating him on the other end of the phone.
• Arby’s Zoo I hate Arby’s with a passion, but this made me smile.
• Coke: Avatars I got it. Nobody else did. That’s not a good ratio. People just didn’t get the Coke/Internet brings us all closer message. I liked it but if people don’t get it, they won’t.
• Bridgestone: Moon Rover Funny, not as good as the Potato Head commercial though.
• Denny’s Serious Breakfast I’ve seen a similar one, but the whipped cream got a laugh out of me.
• Monster.com: The View Pretty simple, to the point and creative. The local news ranked this the best. It didn’t make my top ten. But it wasn’t horrible.
• Budweiser: Generations Kind of hypocritical of AB to make an ad about a hardworking immigrant Clydesdale making a mark in this country considering the traditions they just sold out. But I liked it.
• Race to Witch Mountain Meh. The Rock in a kiddie movie. Don’t go in the pimped out fridge!
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen OMGBARGLEDROOL. Can’t wait.
• Careerbuilder.com It was kind of stupid, repetitive, but I shocklaughed when they punched the koala.
• Coke: Insect Swarm This was an awesome commercial. Beautiful and just fucking enjoyable to watch. The feel-good commercial of the year!
• Jack in the Box JACK WAS HIT BY A BUS OHNOE. Nifty aside: One of my friends out in Pasadena saw this commercial being filmed.
• Coke Zero: Mean Joe Green Parody FUCKING HILARIOUS. Loved it!
• Cash for Gold Eh. It was ok. Local news had it in their top 10. I think they just couldn’t fill it with only Bud and Coke ads.

Wait… Al Michaels just used the word alacrity… Does the average football watcher know what that means? Shit. I don’t remember the context. I don’t even know if he used it properly now. Ok, continuing….

• Taco Bell: Expectations Yeah. I’m gonna take a hot babe to Taco Bell to impress her. But when you set the bar that high where do you take her for a second date?
• GE: Scarecrow Another just beautiful commercial. Coke and GE for prettiest commercials!
• GE: Wind Energy Cute commercial, kid used wind that he “catches” to blow out his grandpa’s candles. Very cute and it’s for wind energy, yay!
• Pepsi: MacGruber FAIL FAIL FAIL. Seriously. They couldn’t get Richard Dean Anderson to be McGyver? And that was the best fucking thing they could come up with? Really? Terrible! Worst commercial of the year. Seriously.
• Bud Light Lime: Summer State of Mind I liked it. It was a fun commercial.

That’s not all but the others were local or just forgettable.

Anyway, the top 10 commercials!
10) GE: Scarecrow
9) Priceline: Bill Shatner
8) SoBe 3D
7) Cheetos: Pigeon Attack
6) Transformers: Return of the Fallen
5) Coke: Insect Swarm
4) Budweiser: Fetch
3) Bud Light: Sweden
2) Doritos: Crystal Ball
1) Coke Zero: Mean Joe Green

My joke of the night: You know why Kurt Warner can’t throw a Hail Mary?

He’s not one of those heathen Catholic Mary-worshippers!

MVP: Santonio Holmes of THE Ohio State Buckeyes!

Way to go Steelers!!! Jen and I were probably the only St. Louisian’s rooting for you! Woot! For those not living here, there’s been a lot of Cardinals are the ex-StL team and Warner is the ex-StL QB talk all over St. Louis. Some weird sort of fannish claim. For some reason the Steelers are my “Not-Rams” team to root for. Don’t know why, but hey if people can root for the Big Red because they are a former StL team with a former StL QB then I can claim I’m rooting for the Steelers because Pittsburgh steel is what was used to build the Arch. See, they have a StL connection too!

So, I got married. Need proof? I have three galleries of photos. The official pics, my camera and Jen’s camera.

It was a great weekend among friends. Many of my friends came in town, and it was great being able to share my hometown with them. I’ve been busy so I haven’t talked to many people since. I still haven’t found a job and IT people in St. Louis are getting laid off in droves between AT&T, ABInBev, etc.

Anyway, enjoy the photos!

I am going to be moving back to St. Louis in less than a month. It’s a little frightening. Don’t get me wrong, I am excited but also am dreading the whole “don’t have a job” thing.

Not that I’ll have time to even think about that because I’m getting married 15 days after I move.

You might notice some changes here. I’ve updated the theme and added a twitter feed. Just what I need another outlet for everyone to follow that I will ignore for a month. At least I have been mostly keeping my foto gallery up to date, right?

Online stores have really pissed me off. Borders Dot Com was supposed to get me a copy of Absolute Watchmen. It’s going on nearly a month of “status: processing”. Hasbro Toy Shop Dot Com had a couple toys that I thought I’d go ahead and order, they had an expected shipping date of mid-August. They’ve sent me 1 of the 5 toys. That one has been sitting in Dallas since September 2nd. *grumble* The real shitty part is that I have seen each of those 5 toys several times in stores!

Anyway, I canceled the HTS order. It was just pissing me off. I need to call Borders Dot Com and figure out what is up with that. If they don’t have the damn thing in stock (or at least on pre-order) they need to not let people purchase them.

Anyway, the whole point of this post was really just to see if WordPress sends a notification to my Twitter with a link to this post. Hope you like the new theme. I plan on adding some more random banners… (I deleted two that really were just not me)

It’s my roommate. He says I don’t know how to tell you this, but we were robbed.

When I get there I see that “we” weren’t robbed. I was. His work laptop got stolen. It’s not even his. My roommate isn’t very much a capitalist or a gadget guy so unless the thieves were more cultured and wanted books on Celtic myth, history, or D&D they weren’t going to be taking his shit. No offense Jonathan…

However, they were very interested in my things. Like my 2 laptops, my 30gb iPod, my Nintendo Wii and all of its various accessories, about 10 Wii games, my wireless keyboard and mouse, and they packed it all up in my backpack and left.

And they did this (I think) between 10 am and noonish. I had woken up late for work because I wasn’t feeling well the night before so I slept in a bit and I had emails on server starting at 12:30pm.

I don’t feel all that violated. I know some people get unnerved by strangers/thieves having been in their home. Not really in my case. Everyone is surprised by how calm I’m taking everything. But what good will it do to rant and rave? Sure, if catch any shady motherfucker hanging around I might take my pool cue upside his face, but to bitch and moan and get all freaked out? Not my thing. Hell, Jen was more upset by everything than I was.

The thing I am most angry about is my primary laptop (the other was Jen’s old one that I had been meaning to sell for parts). It had emails from as far back as 2002 or so. It had all my addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, and photos. My resumes, portfolio (from when I wanted to be a Graphic Designer). Yes, even porn clips that I’ve hoarded since the late 90s from when I was in college. It was my connection to nearly everyone though. Through WoW, LJ, the VI and LaFa boards, I kept track of all my friends’ goings on. Now I have to do that M-F during work hours.

I have renter’s insurance, need to call them still but I wanted to research the cost of some things (also figure out exactly which games are missing). I don’t know how it will play out. I also need to figure out which Wii games I had downloaded and the dollar amount of those.

Ok…this post just kinda ran out of steam…
I think cowardly fucktard thieves should get their hands cut off for stealing hard earned from people.

He broke his dick for the last time.

I’ll miss rolling him up in a mattress burrito.

BROWN.