Root Vegetables

Both gadarene and janni linked to The Onion today, so I will too.

Product Placement Mars Otherwise Exciting Super Bowl

It was actually a very good game, and the team I was rooting for won (it was Anyone But the Eagles here in New York Giants land, and we like the Pats, and I like Bruschi, who took a comparative pay cut to stay with a team he believed in). But the commericals blew. Even for diehard football fans, the debut of the cleverest, funniest new commercials is a major appeal of the Super Bowl.

Total letdown this year. If I'm gonna revel in rampant, obnoxious, unadulterated capitalist consumerism, celebrate corporate greed and mindless acquisitiveness, indulge in the most egregious American worship of the boob tube and watch obscenely overpaid athletes do battle mainly on behalf of Budweiser, by God I want to see some creative advertising.

The pig with the furry draft-horse fetlocks was kinda cute. Otherwise, zilch.

I want to know who Paul McCartney's band members were. They sang awesome backup vocals.