Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Why not?

"So you think you can tap dance?"

Or better:

"So you think you can whittle?"

In terms of viewer entertainment, aren't they all just about equal?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

All I've got

If Zenyatta is supposed to be one of the greatest ten racehorses of all time, how come no one had ever heard of her before last week? Admittedly, I don't know much about the sport of kings. But aren't there huge, triple-crown races where we'd have seen her run before? Or at least heard her name? How do things like this happen so suddenly? Overnight, something like this goes from obscurity to the topic of every sports TV show, and seemingly everyone's lips. For such an esoteric sport, it's odd how for a short time, its popularity skyrockets. Like soccer in America, during the World Cup.

Too bad the band in those Free Credit Report.com commercials came out after the Barenaked Ladies. Those mainstream, no-talent hacks would've been huge ten years ago, if they'd come first. Guys in the commercials, I mean.