Of all the low down, dirty, rotten...

Say that you're a businessman and are looking to make a quick buck.  You want to join the ranks of the alcohol producers in America and you're looking for a new concept.  What to name it?  Hmm...

Jackass Boss:Give me a hot-button issue...any hot button issue...one that everyone in America knows about. 

Soul-less ad man:Hey boss, how about that hurricane that devastated the gulf coast and killed a whole slough of people...

Boss: What about it...you want to donate a bunch of liquor to a bunch of poor minorities who lost their homes?

Soul-less Ad man:  No we can name a drink after the hurricane...

Boss: That's so wrong...so wrong it just might work...now we need a soul-sucking slogan that will help us sell our devil hooch.

Ad man:  hmm...let's see...Katrina...it'll clear the ghettos before the hangover is done?

Boss:  No...to subtle...how about something a little more etherial.  We'll put a picture of the satellite image on the label and then something catchy.

Ad man: Let me brainstorm...ha ha storm...get wrecked like a category 4...

Boss:No

Ad man: Get Blown Away

Boss: hmm...nah

Ad man: The eye of the storm.

Boss:  C'mon that sucks...

Ad man: Floods your senses like broken Levees in New Orleans...

No...that's too funny.  We need something serious.  Like...Get Blown Away...

Ad man: I already...no...that's great...

check it out here.  Thanks to the Smoking Gun for the link.  Fucking Jackasses and their reckless, greedy capitalism...one more reason to love our great capitalistic society.

Emmys

Last night, like many people probably did, I sat down and suffered through the Emmy's.  I love Ellen Degeneres as a comic, but she was thoroughly unfunny as the hostess.  I know this was a more somber occasion with thoughts still on Katrina, but talk about boring...at least some good shows actually got awards that they deserved, though.  EXCEPT RAYMOND.  Thank GOD that show is off the air and this was the last year that they could win awards they didn't deserve.  That show was RARELY funny, and ALWAYS uncomfortable to watch...I know that we're a country of peeping toms, and we like other peoples' misery, but that show just made my skin crawl...so many other funnier shows to get awards that just got overlooked. But anywho...

shit...I was going to change the subject, but I just remembered how much I hate Patricia Heaton...I only mildly disliked her on Raymond, but then she became the spokesperson for Shaws supermarkets, and suddenly, it was on...I HATE her!!!  After last night, I DESPISE her.  She didn't clap for Johnny Carson when EVERYONE ELSE did, she looked bored the whole night, except for when she was onstage, and she didn't clap for the Peter Jennings memoriam, and when Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw got a standing ovation, she looked as if she was pissed she had to get her big ass out of her seat...

Kicking the soapbox aside, glad to see Desperate Housewives and Lost get their due and the DAILY SHOW get their well-deserved Emmys.  For me, the only funny parts were John Stewart's butchered speech about politics, and the little snippets of Family Guy. Better luck next year.