I’m watching Season 3 of Lost on abc.com. Every 12 minutes or so you have to watch between 15-20 seconds of ads to advance to the next segment. Not too shabby I suppose.
The entire movie player is wrapped in the advertisers messaging on top of a commercial slot. Also not a bad way to showcase the ads.
But the weird and wasted part is that about every other commercial they’re showing is for… Lost. How is that helpful? I’m already here and captive.
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goddamn right it’s junk. uggs. gross. How did chanel and prada end up in the same email as uggs?
Warning: This is a really gay fanboy post that ogles Dylan McDermott mercilessly like a delectable cut of Kobe Beef. He is the hottest man alive, and if you disagree with me, then you are wrong. And possibly a little reeree. Move along, nothing to see here.
The TiVo has an anti-screen burn feature: If you let it sit in any menu area for too long it will switch you over to live tv — whatever happens to be on that tuner. Sometimes I get sucked into crap I would never watch. Like Murder She Wrote. And today, its Yet Another Movie in which the dad moves his dysfunctional family out to the countryside, into a spooky creepy farmhouse being haunted by the previous and late occpuants that only the children can see. I really dislike movies in this vein not only for rehashed storylines, but because they tend to build and release tension with 50dB blasts.
I like a good horror movie, but these bore me and give me a headache, so I don’t watch them anymore. And I think hollywood knows this, and have discovered an effective counter: DILFs (Dads I’d Like To beFriend).
First it was Ryan Reynolds in The Amityville Horror. He’s a good deal younger than me and very much a one off hotness thing for me. The combination of superhero build, cuts all over his face, being angry all the time, and the Best Beard Ever allowed him to slip through my twinky filter.
Dylan McDermott , on the other hand… well, I’ve always been a giggling fanboy for him. First in Steel Magnolias, crawling through that crying chick’s window in a pair of shorts with the hottest legs ever, later in Home for the Holidays (this is going to sound stupid) drinking orange juice from a bottle in a way that made my toes curl, (… everything he has ever been in…) and now in this dumb The Messengers movie.
I can’t look away, because I might miss Dylan (aka my next ex-husband) doing something that will make me feel funny in my dangerzone. Like opening a letter, tying his shoelace, using a styptic pencil, or doing his taxes. Damn you Hollywood.
Sphere: Related ContentGoogle earned $1.21 billion, or $3.79 per share, during the final three months of 2007. That’s a 17 percent improvement over net income of $1.03 billion, or $3.29 per share, in the same period a year earlier.
It’s the first time Google’s quarterly profit has climbed by less than 25 percent since the Mountain View-based company went public nearly 3 1/2 years ago. · (Read More)
Not that I usually post about or defend the GOOG, but seriously: what. the. fuck. ?. How is 17% growth is BAD?
Sphere: Related Content“what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards” (embedded somewhere in the run on sentence).
Sphere: Related ContentPlanetOut’s still struggling! Despite selling RSVP Vacations and splitting its stocks, the gay publishing company - which brings us Out and The Advocate [and gay.com, hello], among others - simply can’t find the cash to stay afloat.
In an effort to keep from going under completely, the company’s reportedly looking for a sugar daddy: · (Read More)
I still own all my PlanetOut stock - I think it was about 500 shares or so that I bought when I left the company—now about 50 after their recent 10-1 reverse split. I’ve kept it because it’s the only time I received an actual stock certificate, and having one with a tricker of LGBT is a cool piece of queer interweb history.
One of the comments on the linked post said “OUT once spoke to all gay men, it now speaks to a small percentage who buy Gucci and other fashion brands that have nothing to do with an average or successful gay consumer.”
I beg to differ that Out ever spoke for all gay men. For a period of time time, those magazines had the benefit of being novel and unique against a landscape of other lifestyle mags, but that time has passed. The changing landscape of queer politics and lifestyle have fractured and commodotized into a thousand different groups. Just like there is no monolithic “black vote” supporting Obama, queers are more diverse than a single, static, unpersonalized sheaf of pages can speak to.
With the web, they have the ability to behaviorally target the specific and varied interests of the reader, providing advertising and content that is relevant to different demographics, rather than just Guccigays. Sadly, PNO (and by extension out and the advocate) did not invest in their technology infrastructure to flex into this new mode of content delivery. They rested on the laurels of the gay.com domain, assuming that would bring in the eyeballs, while their competition became nimble and microtargeted their audiences… and as such, PNO continues its tailspin.
I want to see them survive - partly because of the staggering number of once prestigious brands that could go down with it, partly for the cool people who still work there, and partly because I can see a cool future for them, but they’ll need a massive infusion of strategy and cash in order to do so.
[dupe/repost with a different slug, since i linked to my blog from queerty’s comments and broke the link. duh.]
Sphere: Related ContentPlanetOut’s still struggling! Despite selling RSVP Vacations and splitting its stocks, the gay publishing company - which brings us Out and The Advocate [and gay.com, hello], among others - simply can’t find the cash to stay afloat.
In an effort to keep from going under completely, the company’s reportedly looking for a sugar daddy: · (Read More)
I still own all my PlanetOut stock - I think it was about 500 shares or so that I bought when I left the company—now about 50 after their recent 10-1 reverse split. I’ve kept it because it’s the only time I received an actual stock certificate, and having one with a tricker of LGBT is a cool piece of queer interweb history.
One of the comments on the linked post said “OUT once spoke to all gay men, it now speaks to a small percentage who buy Gucci and other fashion brands that have nothing to do with an average or successful gay consumer.”
I beg to differ that Out ever spoke for all gay men. For a period of time time, those magazines had the benefit of being novel and unique against a landscape of other lifestyle mags, but that time has passed. The changing landscape of queer politics and lifestyle have fractured and commodotized into a thousand different groups. Just like there is no monolithic “black vote” supporting Obama, queers are more diverse than a single, static, unpersonalized sheaf of pages can speak to.
With the web, they have the ability to behaviorally target the specific and varied interests of the reader, providing advertising and content that is relevant to different demographics, rather than just Guccigays. Sadly, PNO (and by extension out and the advocate) did not invest in their technology infrastructure to flex into this new mode of content delivery. They rested on the laurels of the gay.com domain, assuming that would bring in the eyeballs, while their competition became nimble and microtargeted their audiences… and as such, PNO continues its tailspin.
I want to see them survive - partly because of the staggering number of once prestigious brands that could go down with it, partly for the cool people who still work there, and partly because I can see a cool future for them, but they’ll need a massive infusion of strategy and cash in order to do so.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday slapped down California’s bid for first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, refusing the state a waiver that would have allowed those restrictions to take effect.
“The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution — not a confusing patchwork of state rules,” EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson told reporters on a conference call. “I believe this is a better approach than if individual states were to act alone.” (Read More)
There you have it: delicious greasy lumps of war-coal for everyone.
That EPA admin’s comments stink of a Karen Hughes’ condescending 3-word bumpersticker bullshit campaign. I’m reminded of commercials for as-seen-on-tv products, trying to sell me a solution for a problem that never existed in a tone that actually makes me question my sanity:
Sphere: Related Content[Narrator]: “The Vac-u-stick 3000. How often has this happened to you?”
Cut to…
[Scene of woman trying to get one of those clunky, old fashioned 300 lb. canister vacuums out of closet, only to get tangled up in the cord and hoses, fall into a tank full of pirhana, break the glass, and stab her eyes out]
Cut to…
[Mysteriously resurrected woman reading from cue cards]: “WHY… … … DOES. VACUUMING… … … HAVE. TO. BE… … SO COMPLICATED. AND. DANGEROUS? … … … … … OW.”
Under all circumstances, “people of faith” bashing those of other religions is just plain fucked up. I’ve found an exception: The neo-super-creepy-fundie christians are going after Romney/Mormonism, and it’s putting a microscope on the way their tiny minds work, making it crystal clear how completely inappropriate it is to have religion touch government in any way shape or form.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Wii was released over a year ago and they are still having production shortages. I waited a full year before even pondering looking for one, and it still took me about 3 weeks and multiple stores to find “The very last one.” I got lucky buy getting mine a few months ago, but I have friends who started looking right before thanksgiving 2007 and got laughed out of the stores with the intimation that they’d be gone till 2008.
We are now in the Wii’s 2nd holiday shopping season, and they are screwed. These puppies can’t be had for love, but occasionally for a very lot of money. Given that there has been a consistent shortage for a year, you’d think that Nintendo might have considered fixing the problem rather than just saying “oh well, we upped our estimates a tad, we met our projections, so we’ll pull the advertising.” Instead, their shortsightedness has created an outrageous gray-marketing scalping marketplace.
That’s just weird.
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