Frustrated with a thoughtless spammer

I was driving in the car this morning on an errand, flipping through the AM dial looking for something to point at with outrage, when I heard this ad: "... for the first time in 11 years." (Snippet of music: might be Journey, Styx, or any number of early 80s imitators) "If you order now, you can get the box set!" (more music). Basically, it sounded like some supergroup from my high school years had reunited. But never once after the opening sentence did they ever mention the name of the band.

I was maddened. Totally. Someone needs to remind these people that you need to repeat the name of the product several times if you've bought the ad-time necessary to say it! The band is the product, dammit.

Clue bat! Apply directly to the forehead!
Clue bat! Apply directly to the forehead!
Clue bat! Apply directly to the forehead!

Why good wins.

Yamaraashi-chan had her last concert of the season last night (I'll blog about it as soon as I get all the photos cleaned up and ready to post) but she's been singing little snippets of it on and off all week. I've been tempted to parody The Candy Man and see what I could do with it.

I've come to the conclusion that good wins the propoganda battle because it has all the good songs, and it has all the good songs because it has all the good rhymes. I mean, c'mon, The Candy Man has "rainbows," "sunshine," and "dew."

What has evil got? "Holocausts," "massacre," and "cataclysm!" These are not exactly easy words to work with. Their high syllable count, descending beats, and obscure rhyme pairs makes it hard for evil to write decent folk songs. Maybe Skullcrusher Mountain comes close.

Joss says it like it is.

I don't "get" Joss Whedon. I mean, in some respects I do. I admire his take on strong, powerful characters, and the way they interrelate. There are other aspects to him that I think Michael Straczynski does a much better job of capturing in fiction. I lost patience with Buffy early, for reasons not worth going into here.

But when it comes Joss's blog entry, Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death, I'm right there with the man. He's completely right on this one.