Pink and Red

Portman and Garner.

Reason Gone Mad

I Support the Troops by Bill Shein.

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero by Elvis Costello:

This is a scathing attack on Oswald Mosley, a politician who was popular in England at the time. Mosley was the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

I did not know that.

My Mom's on Metafilter

In the post An Octogenarian's Journal they want to fix my mom up with this guy.

Clint Eastwood's Baby

Million Dollar Baby - Official Movie Site.

Trailer.

Too Helpful

Maggie Mason went into The Container Store and the clerks couldn't contain themselves. She writes about it in Helpful:

Container Store? Get off my back.

I can find my own damn shelf extender. Tell your clerks to stand down, before I knock one unconscious with a Keepsake Shadow Box.

On my own shopping oddessey yesterday, I conducted my own informal survey of sales clerks.

#1 Annoying
I found the Best Buy sales clerks to be the most annoying. They huddle around in groups, laughing and telling jokes to each other, trying to arrage dates for later that night. Some clerks hunt the TV isles alone and pounce when you make eye contact.

#2 Annoying
The sales ladies at Chicos are in a world of their own. You'd think that they'd notice someone waiting to check out. But no. The two sales ladies were trying on a cute little scarf that one of them was considering purchasing.

Sales lady #1: Oh that looks so nice on you.
Sales lady #2: I might just buy it. It's the last one.
Sales lady #1: Well if you don't, I'll buy it.
Sales lady #2: It's so pretty.
Sales lady #1: Looks over at me and says, do you need some help?
Me: Yes. I need help.
Sales lady #1: I didn't see that you needed help.
Me: Why not?
Sales lady #1: We didn't see you over there.

Um, hello, lady. I thought it was your job to look over at the checkout line to see if anyone was next. It's sex discrimination I tell you. If I was a woman, I'd get waited on!

Hmm, and if I was a woman I could wear pretty lace underwear, high heels and nice little scarves.

Me: I want to buy that nice little scarf over there that you were just talking about. ;-)

Bienvenue A Montreal

Welcome to Montreal is "a rich media application site that enables the user to explore the city through 15k photographs, 400 texts, 50 hours of video, 40 sound bits, as well as 25 short films that truly capture the spirit of Montreal in a virtual experience."

I did a search for beer and found lots of interesting places. You can look at pictures and everything!
via [ Metafilter ]

Merry Hanukkah

It's the interfaith holiday of Chrismukkah.

A Klezmer Christmas - Oy To The World [ mp3 ]

It's my blog's 4th birthday!

Happy Birthday to my blog.

I started this blog four years ago in November of 2000.

I've been posting here, every day since then.

I don't need an intervention. I can stop at any time.

No really, I can...

Ok, I can't.

The past four years have seen lots of changes.

I've gone out and tested the limits of blogging. This year I started video blogging, and am working with a group of people to make video blogging a lot easier.

With the recent explosion of podscasting, I'm blazing the trail for video podcasting. If you haven't learned about podcasting yet, you should check it out.

Over the years I've tested out a lot of blogging tools. My friend Eric Rice just got me to try out BlogWare. It is very cool.

So cool that I'm in the process of moving my stevegarfield.com site over to it. It's going to make it a lot easier to find what you are looking for, when you are looking for info on what I'm doing.

Now it's time for some cake.

Hardees Girl is bad

Have you seen that Hardees Girl commercial?

If you are as disgusted, as I am about it, you can contact Hardees to tell them how you feel.

Dads - click here.

Moms - click here.

Our children should not be encouraged to eat hamburgers while riding electronic bulls. It'll make them sick.

And what about napkins.

Please.

This commercial makes me feel dirty.

iPod in-wall docking station

iPort pipes iPod music into whole-home system:

Sonance is now shipping iPort, an in-wall docking station that enables you to play the music in your iPod over a whole-home audio system.

That's cool if you have a whole-home audio system.

The Slim Devices Squeezebox is cooler though.

Turkey closeup

Here you can see that Mike has stuffed the turkey with a bunch of cut up oranges.

Frequent basting is required.

The results: Amazing!

Mike cooks the turkey

Mike has set a huge aluminum tray full of apple juice just under the cooking grate, on top of the heating element.

He's got a thermometer hooked up to the turkey, and is basting the turkey with a metal turkey baster.

I plastic one wouldn't do, since you've got to get the baster past the cooking grate, to get to the apple juice. This baster has a special thin extension to get down to the apple juice.

Matisyahu: Hasidic Reggae Superstar

Here's video of Matisyahu's national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel.

Whoa! He rocked the house!

Here he is in Paris singing in Yiddish.
via [ jewschool ]

Matisyahu - Official Web Site.

Regular TV looks lousy

Business Week helps you decide not to buy an HDTV in it's article, HDTV: A Shopper's Survival Guide:

The vast majority of programming is still broadcast in the old analog format known as the National TV System Committee (NTSC) standard. On higher-definition big-screen sets those pictures look, in a word, lousy. So, you'll have to learn to deal with occasional buyer's remorse until more HD programming becomes available and the benefits of crystal-clear TV shine through.

My friend says that a Toshiba tube TV can display both HD and NTSC nicely.

What are your suggestions?

My TV is dying.

Amazing Race Annoys TV Gal

TV Gal Chastises 'Amazing Race':

I'm tired of reality TV giving people in dysfunctional relationships a platform to showcase and celebrate their troubles. We should not get our entertainment from other people's unhappiness, even if they are willing participants. And I especially don't want to see this on my favorite reality show.

What do you think? Could a couple like Jonathan and Victoria take the fun out of "The Amazing Race?"

They already have.

Jonathan admits that he is a jerk.

Jet: Music Videos

I like Jet's new song, Look What You've Done.

The video, eh.

Bill Simmons: The Cartoon Series

"The Sports Guy" is getting his own show--on ESPN.com.

Bill Simmons--who pens "ESPN.com's The Sports Guy" on the popular online site, as well as a column in ESPN The Magazine--voices his own character for the animated series, which debuts on Nov. 24 on ESPN.com

There's a sample video that I can't link to over on sportsguy.net.

Bill Simmons is going to be the Jerry Seinfeld of cartoon sports comedy.
via [ Lost Remote ]

We're doomed

Economic `Armageddon' predicted:

Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish.

But you should hear what he's saying in private.

Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity.

His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic ``armageddon.''

Discuss.

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