Why do they think we are morons?

I hate these commercials for the struggling US car manufactures. These “Red Tag Saving” events where they say “…the price on the tag is what you pay, not a penny more!”. WOW, really?!?! Hasn’t that always been the case? Have you ever walked into a dealership and the price was $16,000 and they said, “Well it’s actually $20,000…”?

They try to play it off like that is the easiest way for you to shop. They say it’s a “no-haggle” shopping experiance. Whenever I looked for a car, that was the fun part! Talking them down and seeing how much you could get knocked off. Not that it was actually knocking off money, because they had marked it up so muc already. That’s a topic for another day.

There you go… I just wanted to vent. So for the almost excessive use of “air-quotes”. I guess they aren’t air quotes if I’m typing them, uh?

Fancesca Battistelli – My Paper Heart

You guys know I like to talk about cool new music so here is one of my most anticipated albums of the year! Ok, ok, ok… I’m a little bias! I know Franny, I used to play for her when we both lived in Florida. We’d set up shop and play at the same spot, in front of the old Barnies Coffee joint, every Friday night. She’d pop open the guitar case, throw a couple bucks in to make it looked like we were already tipped, and we’d play all night. Franny on guitar/vocals and me on percussion… now she has a new album, she’s the #1 New Christian Artist on iTunes, she has her own ring tone on the verizon network for crying out loud! I’m excited about the album, and it’s not just be me. Enough of my touting, check out what her label has to say…

JACKPOT!!!

So today I arrived at work. The first thing I usually do is put my lunch in the fridge. So I head up to the 2nd floor kitchen… I pass the exec’s offices, wave to the dorky Star Trek IT guy, peer over the “talker’s” cube to see if I can avoid them while they are distracted by the computer screen, and and make a right into the kitchen.

The first thing that came to mind… JACKPOT!!! Right there before my eyes were 10 EASY-MAC containers with a huge sign, that looked like it was written by a blind person. “PLEASE HELP YOURSELF” it said… and I wondered if everyone would think any less of me if I really did help myself to all 10. But I thought better of myself, they aren’t very good for you. All that processed cheese crap gunking up my pipes… uuchhkk!