These are the kinds of thoughts that pop into my head while I'm working:

- Why do real estate listings seem to feature almost as many, if not more, pictures of the realtors themselves than the houses they're selling?

- The commercial for the new Juicy Fruit flavors. You know, the funny one where the guy busts out of the filing cabinet disguise and steals the gum, and is then attack by a guy hiding in window camouflage, and then by the guy in the water cooler? I mean, the ad works...it is funny. And the window disguise is by far the best of the three (the water cooler seems a bit lacking in originality). However, the very beginning of the commercial has the first guy buying the gum and pulling it out of a vending machine. This whole fiasco could've been avoided if everyone just calmly bought the gum themselves. It might be understandable if we knew this was the last pack of the gum, but we don't. And now these three guys come off as immature, greedy bastards.

I overanalyze commercials too often.

- What is up with the "sudden" popularity in older women? Why I mention this: Demi Moore's reimmergance in the public spotlight, Lauren Hutton on the cover of the AARP Magazine with the title "Sixty is the new Thirty" (no, I don't read AARP magazine; my parents are just old enough to have it sent to them and I noticed the cover), that new video/song, "Stacy's Mom has Got it Going On" (or whatever the stupid title is), and that reminds me of American Pie and the whole "milf" thing. Or more accurately, people's growing use of, and other people's growing annoyance by the use of, the term milf.

- Speaking of the movie, my sister referred to Sean William Scott as "Stifler" when talking about his character in The Rundown. That made me laugh. Sean William Scott: he couldn't pick one name, so he chose three for his whole name. That's gotta violate a rule somewhere.

- Why is it that "fancy ketchup" comes in little packets you squirt all over your food? I would think fancy ketchup would at least come in a squeeze bottle...more likely a jar that you'd have to spoon out. Regular Heinz ketchup is packaged just as that; ketchup. But in a tiny little packet, now it's suddenly fancy.

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As I'm writing this, the A's have just won Game 1 of their series with the Red Sox, 5-4, at the bottom of the 12th, on a two-out, bases-loaded fucking BUNT. What the hell is up with that?! My immediate feeling is, maybe if I were a player, I might feel dejected as some of the Sox are probably feeling right now, but the way that ended, I would be angry and motivated to win tomorrow afternoon's (eep!) game, in the spirit of revenge. Show 'em how to really win a ballgame! I don't know, maybe I'm just looking to feel a little rage right now (which is not good so soon before bedtime, probably =P). If the Sox won that way, I might feel, well, good of course, but also that it'd just be another in a long line of weird Sox playoff victories.
posted by Tim at 3:02 AM