DUDE. I just got a call from an old friend asking if I would come out to Walmart and get a raffle ticket for a chance to buy a Nintendo WE or whatever it is called. I mean, first of all, I have not heard from him in over a year! Second of all, if I stood in line for two hours and managed to get a Nintendo WE, I would be keeping it for myself.

And I was at Best Buy today to pick up the Lupe Fiasco CD (finally on sale) and there were people outside in tents! With sleeping bags! All they have to do is wait a month or two and they'll have them in stock and on sale! Boys.

And please explain to me why the stupid thing has a remote instead of a controller?! I don't want to play Mario Kart (which I KICK ASS at, btw) with a remote! Yes, I fear change.

Microsoft is launching their Zune MP3 player just in time for holiday season, and they have announced that they will share revenue from the sale of their players with recording labels. The first such label is UMG, which refused to liscense their music to be played on the Zune unless they received a cut of the profit of EACH Zune player sold, in ADDITION to the usual liscensing fees. (Pause to WTF.)

These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,” UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. “So it’s time to get paid for it.”

And they say that we're the ones with the entitlement issues?

Happy NaNoWriMo to all of you crazy, crazy people!

I was watching The Wedding Planner the other night, and you remember how Matthew McConaughey only eats the brown colored M&Ms because the colored ones have evil artificial coloring in them? Well, actually, if you've ever opened a bag of M&Ms, there are generally a much larger percentage of brown M&Ms than any of the colored ones. That's because M&M uses leftover coloring from ALL of their colored M&Ms and blends them together to make the brown ones. I actually learned this in Stat class a few years ago, when our teacher explained why there are always more brown M&Ms than any other color of M&Ms.

So, in conclusion, Matthew McConaughey is stupid and this entry is entirely pointless.

Has anyone else seen the "Chain Hang Low" video (YouTube)? When I first saw it, I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek. But Renita swears up and down that it's not. I certainly hope that she's wrong, but if she isn't I am officially declaring satire dead. (I am going to stop my useless bitching about MTV as soon as I am out of their targeted demo, I promise.)

Also, if you're interested in the mechanics of TV networks, this chart is pretty nifty. It lists the prices of average ad buys for every show. CSI: Las Vegas is priced at a staggering $347,000. Veronica Mars cashes in at a sad $52,000. Apparently, most of the ad space is sold during the upfronts, but if shows don't perform as well as the network promises their clients (*cough* Studio 60 *cough*), they have to compensate their clients, usually with free advertising time.

Barack Obama is on the record as thinking about running for President in 2008. I have been singularly unimpressed with Senator Obama over the past two years for the reasons stated here, so I don't really know how I feel about that.

The RNC has been airing commercials that, should they be successful in retaining control of Congress, will probably be as famous as Lyndon B. Johnson's "Daisy" ad from the sixties. It contains ominous quotes from Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri about another terrorist attack inside the United States. In the background a ticking timeclock ticks faster and faster until a mushroom cloud explodes. Then in a scary font on an empty, black screen: "These are the stakes. Vote November 7." (YouTube)

The Democrats have already been all over the media whining about the poor taste and the complete unfairness of the ad. (Because that worked so well in 2002 and 2004!) You know what they should do? They should stop bitching and retaliate. They have footage of President Bush saying quote-unquote that he doesn't think about Bin Laden. They have CNN's footage of the North Korean bomb test. They have the footage from Katrina. We have everything we need to make one hell of a rebuttal.

ETA: And here their rebuttal is. Of course, it sucks. Of course.

Remember when Alfonso Cuaron asked Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint to write essays about their characters? And Emma wrote several pages, Daniel wrote maybe one or two pages and Rupert forgot completely? Yet more proof that Rupert Grint IS Ronald Weasley:

"I failed my [driver's] test, and I'm gutted and embarrassed that I can't drive. I only failed on one thing. I didn't look behind me on a three-point turn. But failing on one thing is more annoying than failing on a few things. But I'll pass next time."

*snicker*

ETA: OMG, this is why we still need feminism! Nine Reasons To Steer Clear Of Career Women. And this piece of crap was published in Forbes!

WHY can NO ONE in this curiously illiterate fandom spell "plagiarism?" I had no idea there were so many creative ways to spell this word.

>:|

Okay, as if I didn't have enough already...

New Pet Peeve: Girls who go around whining about how they hate girls in general.

Candie: Omigosh... I just can't stand women. They're so petty and shallow. My life has enough DR-ama in it as it is. That's why I only hang out with guys.

Guy 1: Yeah

Guy 2: *nods ferverntly*

Candie: (going on with a wave of her hand) Guys are just so much nicer than girls. There's no hidden agendas (I raise my eyebrow at Jenny because I'm pretty sure those guys aren't zeroing in on her face) and no backstabbing the moment my back is turned. Yeah, I can't stand girls.

Dude. If you're going to summarily dismiss your own sex based on crazy generalizations and sterotypes... just. I have no words. I hear this all the time, but I've always thought it is ridiculous! I know guys who are petty and high strung and gossipy. I know girls who are laid back and just not interested in that sort of thing at all. Besides, men invented the sterorypical temptress, seductress, back-stabbing women caricature that still plagues our sex today. Not all women are... *sputters* Delia's! This has less to with sex than with the type of person(s) you choose to associate with.