A Reptile, A Black Woman, and Capitalism

While I am by no means against Capitalism, a line has to be drawn somewhere. I may have seen the most ridiculous commercial ever to be created. It was no normal commercial. It had been spawned out of the minds of those that brought us the Geico Gecko. Yes, the minds of Geico. This particular commercial left me hungry. For pancakes. The computer generated Geico Gecko was nowhere to be found, for he had been replaced by a more multicultural symbol, Aunt Jemima.

This talking bottle of syrup was narrating a customers car claim. I didn't hear anything she said. All I could thing of was geckos and pancakes. Not a very savory combination, to say the least. And while my mouth was inexplicably drooling, I realized that Capitalism had reached a new level. Here was a commercial with two completely different products, one being car insurance and the other, pancake syrup. Both products were benefiting from one advertisement. Not only that, but Geico was distracting my fantasy of squeezing Aunt Jemima's innards onto some lightly fried confectionery. Sick, yes, but completely true. Call me crazy, but the fact that one company's logo narrating for another company is a bit annoying to me. And by annoying, I mean delicious.

With that said, we can only hope for more of the same, however weird it may be. I think I would be good at shoving as many products in a consumers face as possible all at once. It would be a good day for all when the Dunkaroo's kangaroo (nostalgia, anyone?) has Nike Pumps on and is using an Ace Hardware toilet plunger to do a new dunk style into the frosting. That would be badass and delicious.

First Post

Alright, so seeing as I have no idea why I started a blog and attribute the creation of this to being bored as piss, I believe I'll start off by saying what I plan to post about in this little beastie before my ADD gets the better of me and I wander off.

I will be writing a lot about music, for starters, as that is what I know best and also what I enjoy the best. For anybody out there that believes that the cream of the crop in the world of music ends at that which graces the presence of the radio (93.3 anybody?) you will probably learn to hate my guts and refrain from reading any blasphemy that comes out of my mind (my fecal brain matter, to be exact). Some of you will actually expand your mind to other sources of music beyond the easily accessible and will enjoy listening outside the box. That's good too. Hopefully I'll be able to put some of my own garbage up here for digestion as well once I stop being a lazy bastard and actually record something worth listening to.

I will also probably deviate to the painful topic of politics from time to time. This may get ugly, so I will try to use this sparingly and only when something interesting or just plain ridiculous happens in the world of politics.

Last but not least, I will be putting up things from my daily life for your general amusement. In any case, everything I have just written may end up being complete bullshit, as I may forget that I even have a blog. If that proves to be true, it has truly been a pleasure through the good times and the bad times and I will miss you all.