View from the Northern Border: 02/01/2009

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Lots of puddles and ice dams from the messy ice storm yesterday.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Lubbock, Texas (reading about Buddy Holly and old Rock and Roll, I bet); Cluj, Romania; Louth, Ireland; Dubai (Hi Hi Hi, Chris, Roseanna, and/or Rachelle); United Arab Emirates; Stavanger, Norway, and Farmington, Michigan.

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Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and especially Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.

Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's FIRST illustrator of the 21st, for including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art has Seldom Seen, from the Permanent Collection, First Nations Artists -- Contemporary / Traditional, Crown of the Continent, and Ace of Diamonds. Dan Fagre's new show about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park is a true labor of love by himself and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and now.

Media Watch: Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) by Gaetano Donizetti on the Met Opera broadcast today -- sonic heaven if you like Bel Canto opera. (Me! Me!)
Text in Italian by Salvatore Cammarano after Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor; Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Lucia: Anna Netrebko; (Bravo! Bravo!); Edgardo: Rolando Villazón; Enrico: Mariusz Kwiecien; Raimondo: Ildar Abdrazakov;
Housecleaning is easy with I Love Crazee Lucy! on the radio.
(There's no sex in THIS sextette.)
Chi mi frena in tal momento?
EDGARDO:
Who restrains me at such a moment?
Who disrupts the course of anger?
Her misery, her terror
are proof of remorse!
But, like a wilted rose,
she hangs between life and death...
I am vanquished... I am shocked!...
I love you, thankless one, I love you still!
ENRICO:
Who restrains my fury,
the hand that reaches for the sword?
But for the unhappy girl there rises
in my breast sounds of sympathy!
She is of my blood! I have betrayed her,
she hangs between life and death...
Oh, that I am not able to stifle
the remorse in my heart.
LUCIA:
I hoped that my life,
had ended all my fears...
But death has not come to help me,
I live still, to my torment!
The veil has fallen from my eyes,
earth and heaven have both betrayed me!
I want to weep, but I cannot...
Even tears have forsaken me.
RAIMONDO, ARTURO:
What an awful moment!
All words fail me...
Heavy clouds [veils] of terror
seem to hide the sun's rays!
Like a wilted rose
she hangs between life and death...
Whoever is not deeply moved by her
has a tiger's heart in his breast.
ELISA, CORO, RAIMONDO, ARTURO:
Like a wilted rose
Like a wilted rose ...

Spoiler: Everybody DIES! Well, most of 'em, anyway.

Here's a weird case -- (Quoted from The Associated Press)
BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday. Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand..."
... The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest...
Here's what makes it weird --
(The image used in Fairey's red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama) is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by "fair use," which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.

Right Wing Political Retribution?
A transformed digital portrait of entrepreneur/guerilla artist Shepard Fairey, and his iconic HOPE poster, admittedly derived from a fraction of an AP news photograph, which coincidently included movie star George Clooney at a Washington hearing sitting alongside then-Senator Obama. The photo was old news, and forgotten, before Fairey reinterpreted it, a circumstance which may change with AP's lawsuit. YOU can make a similar transformation at ObamIcon.Me
Whatever anyone thinks about Fairey's artistic merits, he sure tuned-in to a major resonator in our society, and his imagery helped make a change. (BTW -- I ain't payin' ya' NOTHING for this picture, Shep!)

Friday, February 06, 2009

Ice-storm this morning -- first thing I did was scrape ice a millimeter or more thick from my car windows. Oh, not quite -- I had to move the car to a place where I could place my feet without slipping, and I couldn't see out of said windows. Next thing was sliding into a curb at 2 miles an hour just as I got out of my alley. Luckily, the main road to my work was passable, and I got there on time, doing a lonnnng slow controlled skid into my parking spot. We delayed opening until 10 AM because of the dangerous driving conditions. When I left in the PM, most of the ice had thawed, but it was raining.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Oakland, California; McLean, Virginia; Saint Peters, Missouri; Toronto, Ontario; Nova Iguau (Rio de Janeiro) Brazil; West Chester, Pennsylvania; Davis, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dix, Illinois, and New York City, New York.

Check out: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's FIRST illustrator of the 21st, for including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art has Seldom Seen, from the Permanent Collection,First Nations Artists -- Contemporary / Traditional, Crown of the Continent, and Ace of Diamonds. Dan Fagre's new show about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park is a true labor of love by himself and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and now.

Ch-ch-changes: Today marks the birthday of Robert Nesta Marley (1945-1981). He was one of the few superstars of Reggae Music, and the genre's most popular performer by far, despite the wealth of talent in this prolific first-cousin of Funk. His death from cancer in 1981 turned out to be a harbinger of Reggae's decline in the worldwide Pop Charts. The music still exists, especially as a vital regional genre, but it competes with stylings from around the world, all of which benefitted from Reggae's success in the 60's and 70's. Congratulations go out to the late Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh, but also to the still-living Bunny Wailer, Toots Hibbert, Jimmy Cliff, and pioneering popularizer Johnny Nash. A couple of shout-outs to Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Sly & Robbie, Steel Pulse, Roots Radics, Israel Vibrations, young Morgan Heritage, and many others!
Besides Buddy Holly and Bob Marley, for me, the first week of February also marks the death of my father in 1986. My mother followed him two and a half years later. They were both fifty-six years old when they passed away.

Concert Review: Courtesy of Washington D.C. drummer "Father Thyme" -- from a so-called "youngin'" in Southern California last month.

I went to see George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic on Tuesday night at House of Blues. I remember a couple years ago in LA, I was debating whether to blow some money on James Brown tickets or yknow, continue feeding myself for a week. Being selfish, I chose the latter, figuring I’d catch JB next year when he came through. Six months later, my family’s driving home from a holiday at my uncle’s house in Orange County, only to hear on the radio that James Brown had passed. OUCH!!! Since then, I’ve tried to make it a point of catching the legends live as soon as the opportunity arises, lest they keel over the next day from complications from prescription drugs or something. I want to see them at least once before it’s too late.

Needless to say, it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, if not certainly THE best. The adage applies: “No school like the old school.” Highlights from the bizarre ride on the pharcyde ……

The bassist for P-Funk fronts a band called Naked Funk for the opening act. On their third song, he pulls out this utterly disgusting, hangover-in-your-mouth funky-ass bass solo. Thizz faces all around. I would’ve been a fan if he had stopped after that song.
P-Funk comes on-stage with some hella crazy costumes. One singer’s wearing a taxi cab outfit, this other girl’s cruising on rollerskates. The bandleader’s chillin’ in nothing but a banana yellow rockstar vinyl jacket …… and a diaper. I like that old school acts still value the element of theatricality and their live shows are the better for it.

George Clinton (center) and friends on his most recent album Gangstas of Love -- Kim Manning is pictured on rollerskates down front. (Inset) Ms. Manning's on rollerskates for real, with George, singing Red Hot Mama in California last month, from a photo by C.M. Talley (PfunkJazz).
Six guitars on-stage at once. SIX! Everytime they come together, it gets too crazy and your head’s about ready to explode and you think that they’re gonna finish the night on that note but then they just keep on rolling right into the next song.
Speaking of theatricality, the band’s stage-hand doubles as this spaced-out narrator of the funk telling us to get ready to board the mothership and stuff like that. And this one singer’s specialty is seriously just screaming wild, incoherent nothings behind the narration, all for atmosphere.
Some guy in a white, woolly mammoth oufit with a big-ass, fake plastic nose comes out every so often to diss the crowd. At one point, he grabs his crotch then picks his big nose with the middle finger on the same hand. My friend tells me his name is Long Nose.

Correction: SIR Nose, played by double-jointed dancer (and good guy) Carlos McMurray.

When George Clinton finally makes his way on-stage after like a half hour, he’s rockin’ like a rainbow, Troll wig or something. The way he says “f**k” is dope.
The most recent rap songs I’ve heard George Clinton on, the rappers use him to bring out this psychedelic, space-age element in the song. But I think those songs forget the other, hella raunchy, highly likable/charismatic side of him that g-funk latched onto. Hearing this geezer sing all these pervy songs like nothing is priceless.
This set is like a mini-history lesson in black music. There are entire sections dedicated to James Brown, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, and at one point, this drop-dead gorgeous singer came out and belted the blues, bringing the house to its knees like Sam Cooke or something.
Clinton brings his teenage granddaughter on and she raps about weed and d**k while her gramps trades doobies with someone in the crowd.
Every single one of the 20+ performers drifting on and off the stage can sang. They got a special singer for every mood you can conceive.

…… Yeah, I’m pretty sure the faded guy standing in front of me took a piss in his cup. Ignorant comment of the night: “Yknow, they’d really sound tight …… if they put their music on record and had a DJ cut them up. Then they’d be really live.” Win!

I wish I could say more but they’re too crazy, I couldn’t hang. Parliament alone rocked for two and a half hours straight before I called it quits at midnight. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went on until 2am and all the old folk in the audience stayed with them.

Speaking of Space People:

Queen Azura blows her enemies off!
At the suggestion of my friend Jessica, I made an animated image to use for my comparison pages between Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and the contemporary newspaper strip. The Martian Azura, Queen of Magic performed this trick many times in the 1938 serial.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

The trees are all coated with hoar-frost again. It may LOOK beautiful, but the roads and walkways are covered with the same slippery, treacherous condensation. Visibility is less than a kilometer. It cleared up yesterday about noon, and I'm hoping it clears up even sooner today.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Virden, Illinois; College Point, New York; Bors, Sweden; Davis, California; Jeffersonville, Ohio; City of London, UK, and Cinisi, Sicily, Italy.

Check out: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's FIRST illustrator of the 21st, for including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!

Charity Alert: Play the FreeRice Game -- improve your vocabulary, and donate food to the United Nations. Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. BTW -- AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a bit simpler than FreeRice Game.

In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art has Seldom Seen, from the Permanent Collection,First Nations Artists -- Contemporary / Traditional, Crown of the Continent, and Ace of Diamonds. Dan Fagre's new show about the vanishing glaciers of Glacier National Park is a true labor of love by himself and other scientists from the USGS. Here's another website comparing glacier photos from the early 20th Century and now.

Media Watch: Fifty years ago, a small plane crashed in Iowa, killing all aboard. Three of its passengers were Charles Hardin (Buddy) Holly, J.P. (Big Bopper) Richardson, and Richie (Valens) Valenzuela. Ex-DJ Richardson's songs were selling, and his career as a comedy act was beginning to go well. Valenzuela was the real star of their winter tour -- he had three major hit records at the time of his death at the age of seventeen. Holly had recently relocated to New York City after his marriage. The rest of the Crickets were back in New Mexico after an intense year or two on the road. Holly's new bass player, another DJ named Waylon Jennings, had given up his seat on the plane. Bobby Vee continued on the ill-fated tour with future Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes in tow.
Eddie Cochran recorded the syrupy, but sincere, Three Stars, honoring his two friends Holly and Valenzuela, plus Richardson. It is chilling to realize that Cochran died on tour in the UK little more than a year later, in an auto accident which also shortened the life of fellow great Gene Vincent.
The shine of newness wore off of Rock and Roll after 1958 -- Elvis Presley went into the U.S. Army, Little Richard went into the church, the Payola scandals upset the balance of power in mass media, and Tin Pan Alley tried to assert its old control. Some very good Rock music was made during this transition between the decades, but its potential was in eclipse for a few years after that Iowa plane crash, for a host of reasons.
The Beatles (inspired by the Crickets) and the subsequent British Invasion was a whole new day for Rock in the winter of 1963. The music of Buddy Holly colored much of its first dawning. Holly's name was on a half-dozen albums released by producer Norman Petty, containing lots of fabulous songs. (I know because I heard them ALL when my friend Jon Ludwig collected them from cut-out bins in the late 60's.) Major and minor British musicians mined a motherload of sonic gold, and sold it back to an eager USA.
Valenzuela's story was told in the 80's movie La Bamba. The earlier Buddy Holly Story turned out to be an important movie, and became a musical stage play which is being performed somewhere RIGHT NOW, no matter when you read this essay. Nobody's made a movie about J.P. Richardson, though. A few years before he died from diabetes, Waylon Jennings told a story on television about trying to take a nap on his tour bus before a show:
This man sits next to me while I'm resting, and says:
"I'm the Big Bopper JUNIOR!" Tell me about my daddy!"
I say: "Your dad was a dice-shootin' son of a gun, and a good ole boy! Now how in the Hell did you get on this bus?"

The 50's -- Bright and Dark
(L to R) Beauties Joan Collins and Jayne Mansfield, preening at the makeup table before an event. Ms. Collins achieved a private life, a long career in filmmaking, and is still with us. Ms. Mansfield was an archetypal Face of the Fifties. She starred in The Girl Can't Help It, which also featured Eddie Cochran (see above) singing 20 Flight Rock. Mansfield eventually lost her private life to the voracious maw of publicity, made films of ever-decreasing quality, and died in a late-night car wreck halfway through the 60's.
Her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, is a modern TV star.
I received a long comment about this post which quotes a man named Johnny Hughes, telling vivid stories about early Rock and Roll, Buddy Holly, and Lubbock, Texas. He jumps to the mid-70's for more tales about other Texas musicians, but that's OK.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

I'm seeing more Deer at Dry Bridge Slough -- especially in the twilight. Real snow yesterday, with attendant slickness in the morning, and melting/draining in the afternoon. It is foggy where I am right now -- the trees are coated with hoar-frost.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Grand Prairie, Texas; Vienna, Austria; Memphis, Tennessee; Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela; Toronto, Ontario; Kingston, New York, and Oakland, California.

Check out: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

(L to R) Actors Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swindon

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Winter will be officially halfway done tomorrow, no matter what the darn groundhog says. Feeding the birds is pretty important this time of year, but the squirrels and raccoons make it more difficult.

Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Zlechov, Czech Republic; Louth, Ireland; Bronx, New York; Spokane, Washington; Westminster, Maryland; City of London, UK; Atlanta, Georgia; Salamanca, Spain; Wigan, UK; City of London, North Arlington, New Jersey; Seattle, Washington; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Bors, Sweden and Tempe, Arizona.

Watch for revisions at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW UPDATES! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.

(Left) Alex Raymond's Witch Queen Azura from 1935. (Far Right) Beatrice Roberts as Miss New York in 1923's Miss America Pageant -- Roberts played Azura, Queen of Magic in the 1938 serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars. I'm launching a new addition to my Cellulose to Celluloid web feature with comparisons between Flash Gordon on Saturdays (movies) and Sundays (newspapers).

I'm working at the college today, overseeing the tech for a so-called Sober Bowl Party -- watching the Super Bowl on two LARGE screens. (Following are live-blog paragraphs, written during the event.)
Pre-Game: NBC's gang of coaches, former players, and sports announcers filling time -- Bob Costas, Keith Olbermann, Chris Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, Mike Holmgren, Tiki Barber, and assorted talking heads.
80's Rock Stars Journey, with their young Phillipines-born singer, doing Street Light People.
A taped interview with President Barack Obama, who was trying to remain relaxed as the questioner dived from serious to shallow, as the president hosted his own Super Bowl party at the White House.
What's all this about 3-D glasses? The crew just brought in a whole bag of them.
Faith Hill and Jennifer Hudson sing separate patriotic songs before the kickoff.
The miracle crew who belly-landed that passenger plane on the Hudson River stand mid-field to unanimous applause.
The Game: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals in Tampa, Florida -- play by play by Al Michaels and John Madden. Coin Toss -- Arizona gets their choice, and kicks. The Kickoff -- Pittsburgh runs to their own 27, but are stopped by the kicker. Quarterback seems to run in a touchdown afer a couple of great passes, but it's overturned on appeal -- field goal instead; 0 to 3
Arizona's first possession -- they face the NFL's #1 Defense, and have to punt; Great goal line save by defensive back Rodgers-Cromartie; Steelers on Cardinals' 5 yard line as the 1st Quarter ends; Three hard plays, but Steelers score a touchdown + extra point. 0 to 10
Cardinals' second possession -- first 1st Down = a good start, more please; Long pass, short pass, touchdown, extra point; 7 to 10
Cardinals' Rodgers-Cromartie almost intercepts a pass again; Steelers punt after taking hit after hit; Cardinals make a good run-back, but have to punt too; Steelers are deflected and intercepted 34 yards from the wrong goal line for them; What can the Cardinals do in less than two minutes? A 4th Down becomes a 1st Down; Cardinals' MVP Larry Fitzgerald catches a critical pass; 1st and Goal -- Steeler #92 (James Harrison) intercepts the ball and run 100 yards to the far end zone, but does it count? It does! Point after -- good! 7 to 17

Halftime: Here comes the 3D commercial. A trailer for Monsters and Aliens from Dreamworks. The 3D effect worked fine, and the audience laughed at the jokes.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band -- "Turn that TV all the way up!" said Springsteen. (Yes, Boss!) The vocal mix was a bit muted at first, but it was alright for the magnificent Born To Run, a gospel choir showed up, and they ended with a delightfully extended Glory Days.

Sober Bowl at F.V.C.C. February 1, 2009

Back to the Game: Cardinals have first possession in the second half; Edgerrin James is running a lot, but they have to punt anyway; Everyone's starting to play rough -- we're seeing stupid penalties; Steelers slowly drive to the red zone; Stupid defensive penalty on field goal attempt, meaning an automatic First Down; Goal Line Stand -- works to an extent, and Steelers are 'forced' to kick a field goal; 20 to 7
(I don't think any Steelers are sad about the score.)
Cardinals have seventeen minutes to score two touchdowns and somehow stop the Steelers; Offensive holding, and the Cardinals have to punt at the start of the 4th Quarter; Two major defensive plays by Dockett, and Steelers have to punt also. No-huddle offense by the Cardinals; Fitzgerald gets the ball to the 10 yard line; Fitzgerald catches the ball at the 5; Cardinals on the 1; Fitzgerald catches a pass in the End Zone; Extra point -- good! 14 to 20
Anthing can happen now, but the Steelers have the ball; Dockett flattens the Steelers' quarterback deep behind the line of scrimmage, and Pittsburgh has to punt;
Stupid penalty by a Steeler gives 15 yards to Cardinals, trouble is, Arizona has committed over 100 yards in penalties; Crazy playing and a well-placed punt leaves Steelers at the wrong 2 yard line; Touchback caused on an offensive penalty; 16 to 20
Cardinals have the ball on their own 36 yard line with three minutes to go;
CRUNCH TIME -- Cardinals' Warner to Fitzgerald, who goes all the way to the End Zone; Point after -- good; 23 to 20
IT'S YOUR TURN, STEELERS -- Two and a half minutes to go; Two Minute Warning (no commercials of note here, just lots of them); Steelers throw a long one, and run it to the seven yard line; It looks like a touchdown deep in the End Zone, is it? YES! Point after -- good; 23 to 27
The Cardinals have twenty nine seconds and 77 yards to go;
Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
One long pass -- complete; Time out; Medium pass -- complete; Time out; Fumble or incomplete pass? FUMBLE! The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl #43!

Commercials of Note: Anti-steroids "spot;" Ageless Jane Seymour; LeBron James clowning; Dylan's Forever Young reinterpreted; Trailer for a lame-assed DaVinci Code clone, with Tom Hanks no less; Low-comedy Bud Lite spots, per usual; Expensive car chases and stunts; Chimps as "grease monkeys;" Ultra-low comedy Doritos number; Cute animals of all sizes; Pepsi jumps on the slapstick wagon; Upcoming Star Trek movie with young actors as Kirk, Spock, McCoy etc; Stupid talking flowers; Funny Pidgeons and Cheetos; Lots of obnoxiousness, but that's neither newsworthy nor notable; Many movie trailers of varying quality; Elaborate Coca Cola CAD/CAM animation; Exploitive references to the recession; Does NBC owner GE really have a brain? Alec Baldwin stars in a masterpiece from HULU -- an evil plot to gelatinize YOUR brain, too! (No commercial was better than this.)

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