I don't ever want to hear or read anything from Ms. Patrick about how she doesn't get the respect she deserves as a professional race car driver. I don't want to catch even a whiff of a whinge about how she's put up as a s3x (to get around your filters) symbol and isn't taken seriously. When you sit on a couch with Bob Parsons--who always reminds me of Larry Flynt, when I see a picture of him--and blow smoke about how you and GoDaddy are a perfect match, you should just go cash your check and shut up.

I generally have a favorable impression of GoDaddy and the quality of service they provide, but I was a lot happier when I thought Parsons was some Mormon who produced genealogy software and not some dirty old man. I made it through about 15 seconds of the video before the BS got too deep, and the perviness of the repeated tight shots of Ms. Patrick's right breast made me feel like Aqualung.

Nossir... I didn't like it.

Since you didn't get to see it, I can tell you that the MSNBC video had precious little to do with an ostrich, except perhaps as a MacGuffin. However, as a satire of our "news" media, it was... priceless.

The cassette brought back some memories. It reminds me of one rare Christmas (1985) when we were all together at my parents' place and decided to record a couple songs together at the little recording studio in the local mall. Our tape reads "The Talentless Bucketheads" and remains one of my most treasured possessions.

The helicopter video is amazing, if it's for real.

Bob Parsons--who always reminds me of Larry Flynt

Couldn't agree with you more.

However, I don't fault Patrick for making hay while the sun shines. She's playing the game as it was laid out well before she was conceived (and I mean that in several different ways). I don't for a moment believe that even her protests about a lack of respect are not carefully orchestrated. Really, it's all just WCW at 200mph.

The helicopter video is amazing, if it's for real.

Do you really think The Gazette would bring you a fake video?

Up next: Who can use the whirling blades of a Huey to create the thinnest slice of cheese?

So if you're The Ant, who are "The Gazettes" and what are they...oh, never mind... 8-}

Who says I'm The Ant?

But we are setting up auditions for The Gazettes. Can you play tambourine?

Heh. No, but I think I could learn. Is there an opening for triangle?

Ah, you're getting into a whole other genre, there. Well, I guess we could be crossover artists. Or artistes. Or just cross.

Since when do the tambourine and the triangle not mix? With a little glockenspiel or marimba, a drum kit and some tubular bells, we'd be jammin.' ;-)

I like your style. You can be the Lead Gazette, assuming your audition tape holds up.

Audition tape? Okay, well, um, let me talk to my manager. ;-)

There's one in every crowd, in't there?

That's odd; my blacklist software says that comment was deleted, and yet...it wasn't. But, it is now.

Note that Foo was not referring to Gwynne, although the conversational thread does work. There was a sp@m cømment immediately following Gwynne's, which is there no more. Hm. Like some posts around here, now that I think about it.

Firefox 1.5.0.4 for OSX doesn't seem to be that bad -- at least it's not magically shutting itself down like the previous 1.5 version did (running on OSX 10.3.9), and the MSN video does play, though it gives you one of those pop-up windows instead of just opening the player in the OSX Windows Media Player (probably because Microsoft hasn't updated their Mac WMP software since about the time the abacus went out).

As for Danica, given GoDaddy's promotions, it wouldn't surprise me if they had to move her driver's seat back before the next IRL season, so her surgically enchanced breasts can again fit behind the steering wheel.

Like some posts around here, now that I think about it.

Wha...?

Jim, welcome back to the "real" world! Things haven't changed much, have they?