This new product from Logitech is super awesome, and I don’t like Kevin Bacon, but this is hilarious.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t really help me remember the product name when I go into Best Buy.
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Best and Worst Commercials Currently on TV
Geico, “Warren Wallace”:
Hilshire Farms, “Go Meat!”
This, the short one, is the best by a “Whoo!”
Best moment: The woman on the left makes the commercial. Watch her face light up as she realizes what’s going on.
A longer version and loses out to the above for it’s slightly creepy mood.
Best moment: “That’s crazy, girl, I swear; there is so much stuff in there!”
Worst:
Cadillac CTS:
This a great example of good writing, nice visuals, and sellspersonship let down by the crappy idea that sex sells. It doesn’t. Sex doesn’t sell anything but sex. You don’t want your car to “return the favor.”
My Hypocritcal Real Estate Snobbery
Today I went to look at a condo being shown by a realtor. The reason I went was because it was relatively affordable and seemed like a place that Leah Beth, Joel and I might be able to live in after I finish school, especially for the area of town that it was in.
It only took two streets to get there, but it was in South Pasadena (or so I thought) and thus, Joel would be able to attend the prestigious South Pass public school system. I looked at the apartment because it was on the east side of the south part of the 110; on the west side of the 110 is Highland Park, an “up-and-coming” neighborhood that is still too scary for me to put my family in and part of the “improving” LA Unified School District.
So east side, South Pasadena = good; west side, Highland Park = bad.
Leah Beth and I have often laughed about Fuller students expressing incredulity at the fact that we live on the other side of the freeway, in this case, the 210 (in Pasadena, south of 210 = good; north = bad). They often ask us if it is safe over there.
Now, let me state that most of Fuller housing is south of the 210 but within sight, sound, smell, feel and sometimes taste of the busy freeway. But we live about a half mile north of the freeway, so we’re in danger? Yeah, like criminals come to the freeway bridge and think, “Oops, we can’t go over there; that’s the other side of the freeway.” I don’t think so.
Yet here I am in South Pasadena doing the same thing. I am a tenth of the mile from the Highland Park neighborhood on the other side of the freeway, but I feel safer. I would put my family here. This is silly.
What is even more silly is that the condo is on Monterrey Road. Monterrey Road runs through Highland Park, through very nice South Pasadena, through the nicest parts of Pasadena, through ulta-ritzy San Marino…you get the idea: ten minutes from a place that I would be caught alive in are places I will never be able to afford to live.
Location, location, location. And we (I) think that I’m so far away from crime and the world’s problems in a safe neighborhood. In LA, you’ve never that far away.
And the realtor told me the condo was in Highland Park after all.
