This isn’t really about the King of Pop
Yes. We had a party this weekend. Yes, I may have kicked people out at 2 a.m. They may have just gone out on the patio and kept drinking; I’m not sure, I went to sleep. Yes, someone may have walked out to move her car -- when the cops said it was blocking the neighbors -- with a beer in hand. Because you always need a driving beer. No, it really wasn’t me.
Sunday, Natalie and I went to Sports Basement because I needed a new sleeveless wetsuit. I decided on a Men’s XS BlueSeventy Helix -- a super fancy wetsuit -- which was on sale for $250, usually over $300. They went to ring it up and it didn’t have a tag. I said ‘It’s a Men’s extra-small Blue Seventy Helix’ and the woman looked at me like I was speaking jibberish. She called to the back for a price code and the woman back there apparently didn’t realize there are multiple kinds of wetsuits either. She didn’t even ask what kind. She called up a code for a much, much cheaper wetsuit. Specifically, a wetsuit on sale for $150. And I had a 10% off coupon.
I figure I tried. Kinda.
But, if they work at a sports store and don’t know that there are different models of a given brand, then...
No, there aren’t picture of any of this. If I had an internet phone, then I would take pictures of shit (maybe). But apparently we have to buy new brakes for the car, so there go my dreams of a Blackberry Storm. Also, my dreams of saving up money and taking a sabbatical. SIGH.
Steve gave me a good demonstration of what is wrong with the car on his bike. He says its like we wore out the brake pads and started scraping the brake shoes on the wheel and need to get all new brake cabling. It might be a little cheaper on a bike, though.
Today, Katie taught me how to do flip turns. (OK, side note, here, it’s not that I don’t know how to do a flip turn. I just don’t know how to do it fast.) It was tiring. My arms hurt now, but we can’t go to bed, because we’re watching the Dateline: Michael Jackson special. Here’s my question: from a TV/money standpoint, you run a special like that because you’ll get lots of viewer, which means you can charge double or whatever for ads --- so, did they sell specific ads for this special? Or are they just running the same ads and charging the people more after the fact? What happened to the ads they were going to run? Are there clauses in the contracts for this kinda shit?
I suppose the other reason you run a special like this is, in the macro, to keep NBC (or whatever) relevant, give people what they want and the idea that they should come there for what they want. And it definitely isn’t costing them money to re-air old B-Roll of the Jackson Five
Thursday, June 25, 2009