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from East Lansing to a specific address in Ann Arbor

Google directions: to Ave Maria for the Conference

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/30/2007 05:31:00 PM | |

The Super-Hero Personality Quiz says...

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 80% Green Lantern 75% Iron Man 70% Hulk 70% The Flash 65% Robin 55% Superman 55% Catwoman 50% Wonder Woman 35% Batman 35% Supergirl 30%	You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/30/2007 12:39:00 AM | |

Stephanie Leonidas

This weblog is still on hiatus!!!

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/21/2007 12:05:00 AM | |

Television with the most erudite Caveman

It's not really news that the Cavemen ad campaign from Geico (the characters are usually referred to as the "Geico Cavemen") is being adapted into a television series, that is the characters are being taken from the ad series and ABC is considering a sitcom with the characters at the center. Slate has an article analyzing the history and possibilities.

Two comedic elements here: 1) the lighthearted satire of interest-group pique, 2) Neanderthals as urbane sophisticates. An amusing dual premise, but the elevating genius is completely in the details... The caveman (en route to or from a vacation) totes a wooden tennis racket in a canvas shoulder bag. The implication of these careful cultural signifiers: The caveman has grasped not just literacy and reason but also the affectations of the modern hipster aesthete... At the campaign's ancillary Web site, CavemensCrib.com (it lets you poke around their apartment), we learn that the cavemen are into (among other things): blogging, Tolstoy, yoga, smoked Hungarian paprikash, and Paddy Chayefsky movies. They have poetry magnets on their fridge … in Esperanto.

The ad folks are clearly having a blast curating the cavemen's highbrow lifestyle. But the joke, unlike the cavemen, is not evolving. We get it: Cavemen are historically portrayed as brutish oafs, not au courant intellectuals. This limited approach is no problem (in fact, it's a plus) in a 30-second ad. But can it sustain multiple episodes of a TV show?

I don't really share the writer's concerns, even though he has a point. What the article seems to be missing, ultimately, is that the cavemen in their characters, reversal of expectations aside, seem to be very very similar to Frasier, when it comes to the total package.

Labels: entertainment, television

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/20/2007 04:54:00 PM | |

getting ink stains out of stuff

apply Hair spray to the stain.

scrub the combined application with. a bar of soap from the tub. Bath soap.

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/16/2007 09:19:00 PM | |

at CPAC 2007

I report from CPAC 2007.

My only true regret is that I never heckled Arlen Specter.

"Please sir, if you may explain what a left-wing abortion advocate such as yourself is doing at the Conservative Political Action Conference? I mean, you are even speaking here! Did you get lost?"

He had a Q and A session.

I also apparently missed an opportunity to see (and likely pictured with) Newt Gingrich and John Bolton.

I deliberately decided (rightly or wrongly) to miss Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter's speech at 8:30 AM in favor of watching some episodes of Dogfight on the History Channel.

I saw someone's motorcade today. I got a few bad pictures shot off.

It is doubtful that I will be posting again before a week from Sunday. I would be even more apropriate if I do not totally end the hiatus before some weeks from now, as I would be re-equipped and re-tooled, re-enabled for action and life.

Labels: off-topic, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 3/02/2007 12:19:00 PM | |