Thursday, March 23, 2006
This week's Thursday Tipsheet is brought to you by Penny Curtiss Premium, the official potato bread of the TimsHead household.
On 'HeadHood Heavy Rotation: The Fray, How To Save A Life; The Tragically Hip, Trouble At The Henhouse; Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience.
Celebrating: Underdogs and upstarts in the NCAA hoops tournament, as big surprises George Mason and Bradley -- and other lower seeds like Wichita State, Georgetown and West Virginia -- make shocking advances to the Sweet Sixteen. (Those who had teams upset by these squads going far in their March MadnessTM brackets are in the Not Celebrating category.)
Not Celebrating: Rioting Parisian students protesting a proposal by the French government to relax job guarantees. Depending on who you believe, the plan will either increase hiring flexibility or firing caprice, and the riots are either about preserving labor rights or a cry for continued entitlement. We report, you decide.
Pop Culture Will Eat Itself, Vol. XLII: Does anyone else remember when reality shows still tried to depict, you know, reality? The latest installment in mean-spirited exploitation, Fox's Unanimous, shows how far this genre has evolved or, rather, devolved. Here's the recipe: Take nine dim bulbs with various quirks and prejudices, put them in a room and tell them they must vote unanimously to give $1.5 million to one of them. The longer it takes them to decide, the less money remains to give to the winner. And the point of this is ... what exactly? To humiliate, degrade and unravel people for our entertainment? Compared to this, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance looks like Shakespeare.
Lost: The lives of more than 2,300 brave U.S. soldiers and 30,000 Iraqis in three years of action in Iraq.
Found: No weapons of mass destruction after three years of action in Iraq.
Elevator Up: Tennessee's fabulous freshman Candace Parker, who became the first women's college basketball player to dunk in the NCAA Tournament and twice in one game, creating a lot of media buzz.
Elevator Down: To the idea that a woman dunking generates a lot more media buzz than really important women's issues.
Huh? Headline of the Week: Flying Car Leaves Two Police Cars In Flames. (Thanks to Lady_Songbird for nominating something with livestock, violence and law enforcement ... pure gold.)
Strangest Hit: I've had a lot of visits through a search for zamboni+mastercard+commercial, but I don't have the slightest idea what the ad is.
Shoulda-Been-Obvious Lesson: You can dress a cat in an orange vest, but you shouldn't expect him to be happy about it.
Franklin PlannerTM Quote of the Week: The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. -- G.C. Lichtenberg.
Looking forward to ... : More March MadnessTM hoops hysteria, as the Sweet Sixteen pares down to the Final Four. w00t!
posted by Tim 6:38 PM
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