Wednesday's this and thats

Just a quick update since I know you all are on the collective edge of your seats. Well, plans do change and the dinner I was going to add to the list of restaurant reviews disappeared, but will be replaced by a luncheon at a spot people have been asking the feeder about lately. So stay tuned….and patient with your hard working food critic..

Couple of odds and ends..

Since MFO has been gone lately, I have had the opportunity to watch some TV and there are a couple of commercials that have really gotten under my skin. Far and away the worst is the one for the ATT 4G/smartphone. Have you seen it? There’s a couple versions, both involving a couple of idiots sitting either in an office or a tailgating situation side by each, both thumbing their phones and staring at them. A self gratifying smirk is on their faces, and they delight in the fact they might get a text message a whole 17 seconds before somebody else, with slogans like “that is so 17 seconds ago”. One scenario has a fellow office worker (and why aren’t these guys working, one might ask) come by saying “did you hear (somebody) got engaged?” they condescendingly peer up just as (somebody) walks by with flowers saying “thanks for the flowers”. Are you kidding me? Flowers delivered in less than 45 seconds? Impossible. And am I a worthless person because I don’t get a text message a few seconds after somebody else does? What have we come to??
Then the other one that drives me nuts is the series of commercials from AAMCO. Each one has some fool imitating some “noise” complete with insane body gestures for the clean cut smiling AAMCO man, who eventually pleasantly tells him “don’t worry, it was just a flabbergoogle valve” much to the relief of the gullible customer. And then there is also one where the lady marvels in astonishment when she learns that the little yellow outline of an engine on her dashboard is a “check engine light”. Egad. Mute – mute – mute……

While those are sort of “in your face” approaches, the folks from Subaru take a different tack. They’re not selling cars, see, they’re selling warm fuzzy, cuddly little moments with cute dogs or animated butterflies. Or goofballs who lose their sunglasses in caves. Love. Who cares what the car does… flower power lives.

Last Bite

Watched the “Finals” of the Westminster Dog Show last night. Although to them it is the “Best in Show”. I won’t spend much time on the handlers, although God knows I could write paragraphs on them (and have in the past I believe)… who dresses them, anyway? Are there mirrors where they can see themselves? But the focus should be on the four footers. After a couple of class finals, they got down to the best in show activity where winners of each of the various categories compete. There were some pretty classy dogs; I thought the German Shepherd, the Doberman, and the Irish Setter were nice. Real Dogs. But I suppose you know who won, a little six inch tall mop at the end of a rope, Malachy the Pekingese took the cup or whatever it was. You couldn’t even see the face of the little mutt. And I won’t even say anything derogatory about the lady judge who chose her/him/it. In this case it was the dogs who were



DFS(how)

MFO returns to the digs today!!