Waiting for Gouda

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your Cyndi Lauper song of the day, brought to you by my ongoing moronic quest is:
True Colors
Originally on the album of the same name, released in 1986. But of course, I know it only through Ms. Lauper’s greatest hits album (yes, that’s right), entitled Twelve Deadly Cyns… And Then Some. It [...]

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Halfway through the T’s, the Silly Music Project brought me a moment of unexpected joy earlier today, and oddly enough, it has nothing to do with music. Something popped up on the old iPod that I’d forgotten was on there.
It’s probably my favorite bit of non-music audio of all time. Better than Armstrong [...]

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So Circuit City has a new series of television ads in which relatively normal looking people go out on dates with large, walking, talking pieces of audio/visual equipment. Remarkably, this is even stupider than it sounds.
In one spot, a woman and a giant digital camera sit at a table at a restaurant, or perhaps [...]

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Well, would you look at that. You see that thing over there?
Do you realize what this means?
Now I have to start to care about stuff.
You know, stuff like… global warming, and the national debt, and sexual predators. And “No Child Left Behind”! I don’t even know what the hell [...]

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I am deep into the S’es now. I can almost imagine that the end is approaching. To the left you’ll see the current slider bar from my iTunes…. yes, it looks like we’re about 4/5 through the silly music project.
The sad part is, my iPod is actually less than half full, capacity-wise. [...]

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What does it take to become a writer in the advertising business?
Some recent evidence suggests that little more is required than a reptile brain.  I just saw a McDonald’s television ad depicting two semi-slobby looking dudes sitting in a booth (at Mickey D’s, natch) early one morning, stuffing their maws with giant eggy greaseballs soaked [...]

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