Commercial time

Now that is why you hustle! Good play A.J. If the call is close, run to first and see what happens. Sure, I know that a lot of people are going to complain that it wasn’t actually a drop third strike and that the White Sox stole the game but the call is the call. Plus, if the Sox hadn’t been dumb enough to try to have Rowand score from third on an overthrow with no outs we would have won the game anyway. Nice way to even up the series.

A few more stories from last night. While walking around downtown Lawrence I saw a Dunkin Donuts napkin on the ground. For most people, that is just litter. For me, that is a sign that I really need to move to Lawrence. I’ve been searching like mad for a Dunkin Donuts in this town. My life isn’t complete without one. If I have to drive an hour to work every day I will accept it if that means I can fulfill my fix. You can take your Krispey Kremes and your health conscious bagels, give me artery clogging Dunkin Donuts any day of the week.

Oh, and to show how tired I was last night, I completely forgot the punch line to the Budweiser story. That story is proof that yes, I will turn down a free drink on occasion. It’s all a cost / benefit equation. The benefit of a free Budweiser doesn’t match the cost of knowing that I am actually drinking a Budweiser.

Ok, most interesting news story of the day. There is the coolest Unicef commercial in the world playing in Belgium right now. I know, most of you do not get Belgium television. That’s where I come in. Anyway, the commercial starts with a bucolic scene of the Smurfs dancing around their little mushroom village as they do in many a hippie’s acid dream. Then a dark cloud casts itself over the scene. Followed by fighter jets who proceed to carpet bomb the Smurf’s village. Mushrooms on fire. Papa Smurf fleeing for his life. Baby Smurf crying in the center of the screen. And in my mind, the piece de resistance, Smurfette lying dead in the middle of the road.

Have you ever heard of anything more bizarre in your life? I mean, this sounds like a comedy sketch you might see on Adult Swim, not a commercial for Unicef? How more intense could you be? Maybe Gargamel could have come out and stomped on the remnants of the city while the cat terrorized the few remaining survivors. And since when has Unicef been a part of shock television? Isn’t this the charity that I collected pennies for back when I was a little kid?

(For the record, this commercial is to raise money to help support those displaced by war, mainly those in the Sudan. So this is at least for a good cause.)