Fox News sucks, Mr. T rocks.

This morning, I was watching Fox News' guerilla tabloid journalism as they attacked Father Pfleger and continued their tired tabloid campaign to try to re-brand Rev. Wright as an anti-American bigot. It's hilarious to watch, but very sad when I remember that a lot of people back home actually think of Fox News as reliable source of information. I guess if they say "Fair & Balanced" over and over again enough times, these people believe it -- just like seems to happen if they keep repeating the flavor-of-the-week character assassinations of Obama.

But then... then!  Immediately after the interview, the following super loud WoW commercial took over and soon had me filling my empty room with screams of comedic agony.  "I'm Mr. T and this is my night elf mohawk!"

You have to see it.

awesome whopper freakout spoof

A spoof of the Whopper Freakout campaign, in which Burger King tells unsuspecting customers that their famous Whopper burger has been discontinued, and films their outrage.  The campaign reminds me of when Tom Sawyer faked his death and watched his own funeral secretly.

Watch the first five minutes of The Golden Compass

I'm not sure how this got online, but I hope it was intentionally leaked to YouTube in a brilliant guerrilla marketing move. I'm far more hooked by this five minute intro than by any pre-opening ad campaign in recent memory.

Whether it was intentional or not, I'm making this mofo viral. WATCH!




YES. MORE HIGH DOLLAR MAGICAL FANTASY MOVIES PLEASE.

awesome Fathead commercial (with surprise twist ending)

I've spent the week in LA at Shelly's apartment, which is awesome but for the fact that she works all day. So I've passed the time mostly by scarfing hummus and watching ESPN repeat the same hour of content six times a day.

Every once in a while during my sports binge, this brilliant commercial for Fathead came on. I needed to share it. I kept youtubing for "fathead" and "fathead commercial", to no avail. Eventually I just started googling random lines from the commercial's monologue, and found a blog post over at AdFreak.

Check it out:



I've gotta say, it's pretty shocking when volume goes up 20 notches and the script suddenly drops from brilliant to this:

Chubby Sports Infomercial Guy: GET YOUR FAVORITE FATHEADS FROM THE *CRUNCH* NFL PLUS MLB, NBA, *CRUNCH* NASCAR, AND MORE> GO *CRUNCH* TO FATHEAD DOT *CRUNCH* COM NOW.

Flex coolness: www.officialmancave.com

I was checking on a domain I wanted to buy, eless.com, and, much to my dismay it's owned by a domain farmer. For some reason, one of the ads these squatter-spammers had on the domain piqued my interest. Taking care not to click the ad, for this would reward the evil industry of squatter-spammers, I copied the domain and pasted it into my browser bar: http://www.officialmancave.com

It seems like this is an Alltel-funded advertisement experience. I see clear examples of Flex components such as the book component in use, and they feel really nice within The Man Cave experience. All hail Flex! Check it out!