Random Stuff: Snuggies, Kermit Bale, Halted, Lorax, Tron, Fake Gordon Ramsay Blog
February 11th, 2009
Snuggie Stimulus
I don’t understand the appeal of the Snuggie. As far as I am concerned, it’s just a bathrobe you wear backwards. But it also represents a pathetic last gasp of desperate consumerism, by people are too broke to flip another house – or even leave their house – but they want something useful, warm, and comforting to use at home as the economy goes to hell and the power gets shut off. Here’s a clue: buying more useless consumer stuff won’t make you feel warm and comfy.
After a bit of Internet searching, I learned there are two competing products called the Slanket and the Freedom Blanket which is basically the same retarded idea.
You’ve got to love this paragraph on the Freedom Blanket website:
STOP THE THEIVES – SNUGGIE & SLANKET STOLE OUR IDEA AND WE NEED YOUR HELP…Please send an email to info@freedomblanket.com or join our email list to support our cause.
Who knew the market for late night infomercial backwards bathrobe crapola was so cuthroat?
Kermit Bale
Somebody for some reason decided to compare Christian Bale and Kermit the frog. Maybe this has something to do with his tirade, maybe not. All I can say is the visual argument is humorously convincing – there are about 200+ images of both Christan and Kermit in similar poses.
Can this kind of image comparison be incorporated into the next version of iPhoto?
Halted Specialties
Never heard of Halted Specialties Company but it sounds like a cool place – a bargain bin of used computer hardware parts where Jobs and Woz shopped to build the first Apple. It’s in Santa Clara so one of these days I should check it out. I will offer up that there’s a similar place but for crafties called Scrap up in San Francisco.
Teach Recalls Getting Dosed By Acid By A Student
Ah, you’ll just have to read it. Along with The Lorax.
Please Raise My Taxes
Yet another reason why I love Netflix. Great idea. Wrapped up in this concept: as a proud card-carrying member of the middle class, I’m sick of being asked to go out and shop, stimulate the economy, or pony up micropayments to save failing business models. The average American consumer is tapped out; didn’t you get the memo?
So here we have the CEO of Netflix saying, I make a lot of money, and am willing to pay half of my earnings in taxes. I say take him up on the offer. There are a lot of wealthy people in this nation who still have a lot of money. Better them than us average folks who ain’t got nothing. I can’t even justify buying a Snuggie – you think I can stimulate the economy?
Tron
So as a kid I begged my parents to see Tron. Now there’s a new Tron sequel in the works. I am looking forward to it. Tron is cool when it meets Depeche Mode.
Fake Gordon Ramsay Blog
Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares are guilty pleasures of mine and while looking to see if Gordon Ramsay has a restaurant in San Francisco (he doesn’t) I happened upon a fake Gordon Ramsay blog. It’s freaking hilarious. Just read the posts with the stressed-out Ramsay voice in your mind and it makes sense. Here’s a post called “Newsflash Lardass: Cheese Fries Aren’t Good For You.” The secret sauce: the comments.
That’s it for this week’s random stuff assignment – more next week I am sure.
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Sadly I don't think the snuggie will be the last gasp of consumerism
I do find it hilarious though. It's basically a blanket muumuu. If you think about it (I realize I shouldn't think about it), it really appeals to 2 core values: Couch Potato Culture (the commercials I see on Youtube always show people lounging on the sofa with the thing) and Obesity (nobody can see how large you are when you're wearing this ridiculously huge fleece poncho).
Anyway, I'm much too busy enjoying my “Samurai Peeler” to worry about such nonsense ;-P
https://www.samuraipeeler.com/ver5/index.asp?re...
The Christian Bale & Kermit the Frog comparison thingy has been circulating for a few months but you can bet that the controversy of Bale's meltdown has certainly upped the site's hits into overdrive.
Heh – funny, obviously I never ran into it until this week! Waiting to hear the Kermit rant.
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Actually the Infomercial business is about as cut-throat as it gets. They will run a test of a new product for a weekend and if it doesn't show good promise you will never see it again. If you see it again it means it is working and all the competitors will start putting together their own version immediately.