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As you can see, I’ve changed my blog again, but this time, I’m trying hard to take my content with me…

I’ve moved back to Movable Type as a platform, away from Wordpress, not because Wordpress is bad – I really like it, in fact! Well, I have my reasons, and I can’t really talk about them now, but I hope to be able to talk about it in about a month.

On other fronts, I found one of my old hand-written journals the other day. I hadn’t written in it in a little more than two years, but it had to be several hundred words that talked about nothing in particular. It was just a breakdown of the minutiae of my day. It was shockingly fascinating! Not because it was a particularly interesting day, but because reading that journal entry, and all the stupid details, brought me right back to the day I wrote it.

I could remember the day so clearly once I was reminded of it. The different sense-memories blended and reinforced themselves for my grey-matter to latch on to. Suddenly, I was transported back to 2005, when Heather and I just started dating. It was a cool fall day, and I could recall the smell of the air, the feel of my jacket, and the taste of the coffee in the little shop in Williamsburg. It was heady stuff.

Consequently, blogging was set aside while I kept that other journal.

So, I figured I owed a small explanation for my absence. I’ll be blogging here, still, don’t worry – I’m just trying to make sure I have good stuff to post.

I am in awe of Washington, Nebraska and Louisiana, giving a clean sweep to Barack Obama! That’s 158 more delegates for my candidate.

Oh, yeah, did I forget to mention? I’m pulling for Obama for President. I’ll give you a few reasons why.

1. While I’m fairly sure Clinton would be an effective executive, it’s not that ability I worry about. I doubt her ability to draw independent voters. I doubt her ability to change their minds about her already very poor likeability.

2. I am disgusted with the Clintons’ negative campaigning. They can’t keep things civil, and have to resort to taking quotes out of context. It appears as if they will subvert people making an informed decision to win. I can’t abide by that.

3. Most importantly – I like the man, and I think a lot of people do. I’ve spoken with many Republicans and Clinton supporters who think that’s a terrible reason to vote for someone, but I believe it’s one of the most important. Every politician has a vision – something they desperately want to do, and make speeches to that affect. Often, however, they lack the political will and capital to see their vision through fruition. I believe that if you can couple vision with a powerful personality, you can accomplish great things. Sure, that can go very badly with a negative vision, but Obama’s vision of a clean environment, energy independence, universal health care, and a balanced budget is one I share.

As I mentioned in my previous post, Heather picked up some kind of terrible bug that simply laid her out. She spent all night in and out of the bathroom. I really felt bad for her. There wasn’t much I could do, except try and make her as comfortable as possible. It was really heartbreaking.

Three days later, she’s still not feeling great, but is at least keeping jello and toast down. I can tell she’s stir-crazy, eager to go out and run errands, but not trusting her body to work correctly. I have no doubt she’ll be back to normal by this weekend, but it can be hard expressing that confidence.

Hi peoples! I saw and engaged the lizard-slash-male part of my hindbrain and watched the Superbowl. I liveblogged my reactions, mostly to the commercials. Click below to read my rather lengthy recounting of the evening.

6:30 PM – First commercial – the guy from Dirty Jobs talking about the Ford F-150’s tow hooks by attaching the truck to a giant centrifuge. Neat if boring.

6:36 – Bud Light Breathing Fire. Funny! Even the ability to breathe fire won’t make me want to drink that shit. Which reminds me – I’ve got a Samuel Adams in the fridge…
6:36:30 – Audi R8 – Ah, the old Horsehead in the bed gag. That’s not the same guy from The Godfather, is it?

Giants 3, Pats 0.

6:45 – What is Love? Diet Pepsi Max – Poor, LL… How I missed you in the smart-shark movie.
6:46 – Salesgenie.com – oh, are we back to the terrible Dotcom commercials? Where’s the sock-puppet advertising Pets.com?

6:48 – Bud Light cheese-party. Guys are dumb.
6:49 – Under Armor – I love their underwear. They’re making shoes now? The guy giving the speech could have been Lawrence Fishburne screaming at Zion in The Matrix.

6:59 – Bridgestone – Squirrels are funny.
6:59:30 – Doritos – Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Two million dollar music video. Gosh, I hope they make a return on their investment. They won’t.
7:00 – Local Commercial – Maryland Lottery – “Pull my finger.” Why would you pull it? Why?

Giants 3, Pats 7. Well, that didn’t take long.

7:03 – Wanted. Oh, I want to see this movie.
7:03:30 – Gatorade G2 – Meh. Totally uninteresting.
7:04 – GoDaddy.com – Bet you GoDaddy.com is about to get hammered.
7:04:30 – Did that cop just tap that dude’s ass? ’cause of his Dell? Are we retarded? Also, can we just be done with all the (RED) shit now, please?

7:05 – FedEx – Giant pidgeons! Awesome. I love this commercial!
7:05:30 – Cars.com – Maori warrior not always funny.
7:07 – Tide toGo’s talking stain reminds me of the funniest part of Bruce Almighty. Good concept, but they should have started slower then went for the crazy. Too much too soon made this commercial too long. Like this entry!

7:14 – Budweiser – Hank the Clydesdale. Does that make the dalmation “Mickey?”
7:14:30 – IRONMAN FTW!! “Yeah, I can fly…” I’m gonna love that movie. Robert Downey is Tony Stark.

Chris Hansen punts for the Patriots? Doesn’t he do that Predator thing with Dateline NBC?

7:18 – Toyota Corolla – Are badgers ferocious? Mushroom! Mushroom!
7:19 – Leatherheads movie. I’m not allowed to like this movie because Renee Zelweger is in it.
7:19:30 – Garmin w/ Napoleon. Cute car. Unremarkable commercial.

7:23 – CareerBuilder.com quitting Heart. W…T…F… Am I the only one who thought it weird that her heart came out of her boob?
7:24 – Sobe Life Water’s Thriller Lizards. W…T…F… part 2. Can we stop with the Thriller zombie dancing, please? A cool concept video, but will anybody remember the product?

Damn. This is a good defensive game. I like those. Double-sack, even from the shotgun.

7:28 – GMC Yukon Hybrid. Why are American car makers proud of 21MPG? Looks like Sisyphus finally made it.
7:29 – Bud Light foreign accent bar commercial – Not funny.

Tom Petty halftime show? Way to capture the pulse of American popular music, Fox. I say bring back Justin and Janet!

7:38 – Prince Caspian. Pretty, but I saw this trailer on the inkernet earlier today.
7:38:30 – Planters cashews – Hot unibrow chick. HAHAHA. I love cashews.
7:39 – T-Mobile w/ Charles Barkley. I love Charles Barkley, but this commercial is decidedly not turrible. Fans of Frank Calliendo will get it.

7:41 – Pepsi sucking Justin Timberlake. I’ll never get sick of seeing JT get racked in the nutsack by a mailbox.
7:42 – Doritos mousetrap. Laugh out loud funny! Totally didn’t see that one coming.

HALFTIME – Giants 3, Patriots 7.

7:55 – Geico Cavemen – It’s done, guys. Give it up.
7:56 – Acura MDX – Who cares except people already interested in it?

7:57 – The Sobe Life Water logo is prominent in the halftime discussion. That will help cement the lizard commercial with the product. One wouldn’t have worked without the other, IMHO.

8:02 – Constellation Energy – I’ve seen this already, right?
8:02:30 – NFL Network. Lost on me, but I don’t count I think. I’m not their audience.

Halftime Show:

In high-def, you can see that poor morbidly obese couple nearly get trampled by people trying to get to the stage.

Seriously, who thought Tom Petty would be a good artist for the Superbowl halftime show? I think he’s talented, sure, but he’s so wooden on stage. He might as well have a cardboard standee on stage in front of the microphone.

Now that I think about it, if I were one of those people in the field around the stage, I would grab a handful of sod and pocket it. I wonder what the field will look like when they’re done?

8:17 – Chevron Geothermal. Great. Now quit drilling for oil.
8:19 – Beatboxing McDonalds. Beatboxing is cool.
8:19:30 – Barack bought a Superbowl commercial? Yay!!

8:24 – SemiPro movie. Heh. I love Will Ferrel in a very unnatural way.

8:30 – Cars.com Plan B – Isn’t that the dude from Bones? Heh! Tiny head!
8:30:30 – Ting-Ting the panda for SalesGenie.com. Reminds me of TingTong from Little Britain.
8:31 – Shaq the Angry Viking for Vitamin water. The jockey smacking Shaq’s nuts was the funniest part.

8:34 – Bud Light with Cavemen. Wheel suck! Bottle opener suck! Heh. Beer suck!
8:35 – Carmen Elektra for Ice Breakers Ice Cubes. Dull.
8:35:30 – HAHA. Alice Cooper and Richard Simmons on a Bridgestone commercial. Why didn’t he hit Richard?
8:36 – Careerbuilder.com with the singing firefly. Very meh.

Side-note: Watched the GoDaddy.com commercial during the play challenge. So totally not worth it.

8:44 – Hyundai Genesis “Big Twist” commercial. Dumb.
8:44:30 – Pixar “Wall-E” – That’s not Tom Hanks, is it? It’s a cuter version of “Johnny Five.”

Ok, my DVR is pissing me off. The time delay between pressing the “pause” button and it actually pausing is about 30 seconds.

8:51 – Jumper movie. I really want to see this movie. Don’t tase me, Samuel L. Jackson!
8:51:30 – Investing baby for E*Trade. I don’t think anybody has ever thrown up on screen in a commercial, ever.
8:52 – Bud Light makes you fly. I still wouldn’t drink it, even if it made my breathe fire and fly.

9:01 – Chester the Oboe player for the NFL. Is that true? How cool!
9:03 – Wachovia Visa pennies (dollars) from heaven. Meh. The way the dollar is freefalling, people will be throwing away dollars like they do pennies before too long.

9:04 – Marilyn, Shakira, Madonna, for Sunsilk. I thought they discontinued this stuff. Better tell Heather.
9:05 – Stewie vs. Underdog for the Coke. Pretty amazing computer graphics. Finally Charlie Brown gets his. Anybody notice the little girl in the blue dress with the football? Looked like Lucy to me.

Giants 10, Patriots 7. Go Giants!

9:12 – James Carville and Bill Frist, best buds after a Coke. Makes me want to go to the National Gallery, not drink a Coke. As a bit of a wonk, I like this commercial!
9:13 – Toyota Sequoia covered in Big Wheels! Heh! That looks like fun.

9:15 – Zohan movie. HAHA. Finally an Adam Sandler movie I kinda want to see!

It’s 9:28, and Heather is upstairs being sick, so this liveblogging event comes to a close a bit early…

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