Tell Me The Old Old Story … As noted in the preceding post, Black Friday Commemoration – The Liaison Dangereuse Video Ad, Black Friday has become its own holiday with its own rituals, customs, and ornamentation. To bring consumer holiday cheer to those viewers who are resigned to missing out on the trappings of Black [...]
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Black Friday Celebration Continues With "The Wardrobe" Video Ad
November 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fascinations
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Black Friday Commemoration – The Liaison Dangereuse Video Ad
November 27th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Deck The Malls With Advertisements For Black Friday, perhaps the most important holiday of all as far as American retailers are concerned, Heck Of A Guy, appropriately enough, presents for the edification, entertainment, and titillation of our viewers, an ad. According to Ad World, the site where I discovered this Black Friday ornament, Liaison Dangereuse [...]
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Thanksgiving Commemoration With The 3 Poults
November 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Fascinations, Local
In order to offer a post connected, however tenuously, to Thanksgiving, Heck Of A Guy presents a reprise of The Poults Grow Up, 51 seconds of video views from 2007 of the turkey hen and her three poults that spent their summers in our back yard. Where’s Albert Noonan when you need him?
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I Wanna Be A Star Like Ajay
October 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
I may be the only fan of the IBM commercial that features Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB, strolling through the office to the adulation of all, especially the female staff, pouring himself a cup of coffee, and signing an autograph or two with a marker before the catch phrase,“Your rock stars aren’t like our [...]
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The Oh-No Button
September 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fascinations
AKA The Automated Aporia Announcement Some time ago, I came across The Drama Button, which is, as its creators claim, a useful tool “for all of life’s unnecessary drama.” As it turns out, my own life is so dull that even unnecessary drama is all too rare an event. Consequently, the Drama Button, through no [...]
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Zero Tolerance For Teachers Purchasing School Materials For Students
August 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Fascinations
Teachers Bent On Economic Self-Destruction An article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune, School supplies: Teachers, parents shoulder a rising share of the costs1 spotlighted the phenomenon of school teachers purchasing supplies for their students. These excerpts illustrate the problem. But in an era of cost-cutting and economizing, the expense is increasingly shouldered by parents and teachers, [...]
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Video Of Boxing Gloves, Stethoscope, & Monkey Sequence At Leonard Cohen Colmar Concert
August 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen
The boxing gloves and stethoscope, accouterments to lyrics from “I’m Your Man” deposited on stage (first documented in the photo posted at Leonard Cohen Equipped To Step Into The Ring And Examine Every Inch Of You), can now be viewed in this video excerpt of that song’s performance at Leonard Cohen’s Colmar Concert. Cohen, already [...]
Onion News Reports On Google Opt-Out Village
August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Onion News Network Precisely On Target I’ve long had a thing for The Onion, the most reliable source of consistently high quality, insightful, clever, funny satire in text form. I hadn’t paid much attention, however, to the Onion News Network, their mock emulation of CNN and similar television news shows. Today, however, I happened onto [...]
Tremendously Tasty Tuna Salad With Curry
August 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Barbie’s Tuna Salad1 From the kitchen that brought you dishwasher salmon, Chocolodka (also dishwasher processed), and 3 Dishes For Sustenance & Verve During A Chicago Winter (which are apparently dishwasher-free), Prodigal and I are proud to offer readers our highest endorsement of the best tuna salad recipe we’ve come across in years of research. Prep [...]
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Albert Noonan – The Man Behind The Camera Of Those Great Leonard Cohen Concert Videos
August 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Fascinations, Leonard Cohen
In fulfillment of my mission to serve and protect those who visit my Heck Of A Guy and LeonardCohenSearch blogs, I’ve screened most1 of the audience-filmed videos of the Leonard Cohen World Tour concerts that have appeared online since the first show in Fredericton in May 2008. One set of these concert videos – those [...]
