"Hear what you want" commercial for headphones by Dre Studio wireless

I'm sure you've seen commercials featuring Kevin Garnett, Colin Kaepernick, and Le Bron James.

Each guy is shown sitting on a bus, while outside maniacal people - white, of course - with twisted, hate-filled faces are shouting at them... but each guy is listening to his music and is bothered not at all to be surrounded by people who look like they'd like to beat each man to a pulp. (And, for the Kaepernick one at least, they are actually throwing stuff at the bus and breaking windows.)

One of the commenters on the Keapernick video said, "It's just a commercial. Fans don't throw eggs at buses."

Well, gee, kids didn't stop reading books, jump up and play for 30 minutes, before returning to their books (I'm being ironic about the book -TV or computer game is more like it) until they started seeing commercials that encouraged them...not to read and do well in school, but to get up and run around and play for 30 minutes.

Monkey see, monkey do is the premise of commercials - and an accurate one.

How many idiots seeing these commercials are going to buy these headphones and start wearing them to school so they don't have to listen to their teachers. (Or is that already happening?)

How many people who really need to hear and learn from criticism (Mathew Stafford rejecting any need for a quarterback coach, for example) are going to think, "Yeah, these guys are "da bomb." If they don't have to listen to people telling them what they do wrong, why should I have to listen to anyone either.

AT&T new smartphone commercial

Some idiot - male and white of course - wants to find out more information about AT&T's smartphone, so he's talking to a woman, asking her questions, not believing what she says,

"I'm going to need to speak to a supervisor."

The woman points out she is a supervisor, and he says, "Finally, someone I can talk to."

Is this supposed to be humorous?

Taco Bell commercial: Grilled Stuft Nachos

The commercial shows a teenage boy running down the street, a smug expression on his face. He looks back, then forward to bit into a grilled Stuft Nacho.

The announcer's unctuous voice says (a bit paraphrased), "Why should you ever have to eat nachos on the run? Well, maybe her parents came home early."

And then we segue to the father chasing after the boy...he's got a determined expression on his face and it's definitely supposed to be funny...

So we're supposed to assume that the boy had a grilled stuft nacho from Taco Bell, but instead of eating it was having sex with a girl - doubtless without wearing a condom - parents come home - and he then gets fully dressed , grabs his grilled stuft nacho and eats it while on the run because he's such a fast runner...

And what is this commercial telling people?

That irresponsible teens who have no respect for parents eat at Taco Bell?

That parents are stupid and slow?

What's the theme song playing for this?

"You're momma's got nothing on me...you're father's got nothing on me..."

What's happened to the National Geographic Channel

I'm not in the mood to do much today, so thought I'd improve my mind by watching an educational channel.

How about the National Geographic Channel? They're sure to have documentaries that will educate me about the world!

Not so.

10 - 11 am - Alaska State Troopers  - a reality series
11 - 12 pm - Border Wars - reality series about South Texas working to stop drug dealers, smugglers and "undocumented immigrants" - aka illegal immigrants - from infiltrating residential areas.
12 - 1 pm - Thrill Killer. an unscripted reality series, featuring a game warden
1 - 2 pm - HALLELUHAH! An actual scientific documentary!  Mammoth: Back From the Dead. "Follow scientists as they attempt to use preserved DNA to clone mammoths."
2 - 3 pm - World's Worst Natural - worst natural disasters in history are explored
3 - 3:30 pm - None of the Above -  A series featuring science experiments . (Seems like a clone of Mythbusters.)
3:3 0- 4 - Don't Try this At Home - same as above.
4 - 5 - The Numbers Game. - Statistics and tools for becoming wealthy are explored. WHAT'S THIS DOING ON THE NAT GEO CHANNEL?
5 - 6 - Diving into Noah's Flood - Archaeologist Jeff Rose searches for evidence of a colossal flood that he believes inspired the bibilical story of Noah's Ark
6 - 7 - Sex in the Stone Age - yeah, right.
the rest of the evening's programs are "to be announced."

Miley Cyrus

All I knew about  Miley Cyrus up until about a week ago was that she was some singer/actress who had a funny first name, bestowed upon her by father Billy Ray Cyrus.

Then came some Music Awards Show where she strutted around sticking her tongue halfway out her mouth, did twerking (thrusting the pelvis back and forth as if you're having desperate sex, a hip hop "simulated sex" move (you can't call it dance) that a growing generation of girls apparently think will attract the eye of boys and get them free sex and perhaps a baby and a baby daddy to boot - why else would they do it???

Anyway, although Miley, who is white, has come in for a lot of criticism over her tasteless performance, it is sad to think that if she were black, probably nothing would have been said. I say this because I'have seen snippets of videos of hip hop where that is exactly what the backup sex-objects are doing - twerking and fawning all over the male singer with his gold chains and his angry face and his utter contempt for the women fawning all over him.

Sadly, Miley Cyrus sees absolutely nothing disgusting in her behavior...and I really wonder if all her tweener fans don't either. That would be so sad.

Oscar meyer commercial

I've seen this commercial a couple of times.

Four teenage boys - well, maybe 11 or 12 - who clearly think they are God's gift to creation, are sitting on a couch playing a video game.

The dad of one of them comes in and starts talking hip hop slang.

the boys look at him like he's an idiot and his son talks to him like he's an idiot.

Then the boy hands over a plate that has a piece of bacon on it, and he eats it.

How offensive. How offensive.

Any kid who would talk to his parents like this kid talks to his dad should be spanked, sent to bed without supper, and his video game thrown in the garbage.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia

and never agree to transcribe 20 hours of meetings from an Australian business meeting.

That's what I've been doing for the last 4 days...utter nightmare. Could NOT understand their accents. Making it worse were the bad audio levels and the fact that a lot of the people preesnt insisted on talking over each other from all around the room except in front of the microphone... I will never transcribe ANYTHING every again.

Anyway, so sorry to be MIA from my blogs.