Thursday, February 15, 2001

From the same people who bring you custom candy hearts: custom license plate frames. For each state, they have license plates from different years.

Sometimes, something comes along that's so strange, you can only say: I have no response to that.

A translation follows. (links from Rich)

I know Valentine's Day is over, but you can still make your own custom candy hearts!

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Foster Farms is a poultry company in the Western United States, and for a while they've been running television ads with a pair of bedraggled chickens whose mission in life is to become Foster Farms chickens. Although the ads are sometimes funny, they creep me out.



First off, the whole animal-who-wants-you-to-eat-them thing. Just like that cow in Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Anyway, it's creepy.

Second: the ad always focuses on how these chickens eat junk food, never exercise, and lead generally slothful lives. They're always trying to scheme their way into becoming Foster Farms chickens, where, presumably, they'll get to be eaten. They often interact with humans, who accuse them of not being Foster Farms chickens, and How Dare They!

Okay...I don't know exactly how to put this into words, but isn't it odd we're going off on a couple of chickens for being fat and lazy, so their meat can be lean, so we fat and lazy humans can eat them? It's deep, man.

In case you live in the Bay Area: highway 280 is much more puke-on-the-side-of-the-road-friendly than highway 101. You know, most beautiful freeway in the United States, yadda yadda yadda. Plenty of bushes and trees. Not that I'm speaking from experience here.

Rob's Amazing Poem Generator takes a URL you enter and produces a "poem". I tried cnn.com and the last few lines are:

in Africa PICTURE OF THE Great
Communicator, revisit The desk and Al
had a dog lover Woof. Meow.