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Wally says Happy Halloween.

Mad Men intro now with 100% more Simpsons.

Love it.

Obama, the infomercial.

For the last three minutes.
To learn where to vote, www.barackobama.com or text VOTE to 62262. He is that cool, he has a text thing...it's like American Idol, come on America! You LOVE American Idol. Please vote for him and be nice and don't mess this one up, too. Please?

This is how I feel about the election.

Queen |MTV Music

Can you believe that MTV is actually providing the world with music videos again? Finally. http://www.mtvmusic.com/

OMG, did you know there was something called Bacon Salt?

I just learned of this fabulous product. I am purchasing a three pack of the natural. I will share results once this arrives.

I just want to be clear, this is a salty seasoning that makes things taste like BACON.
BACON.

For real.

I have to try this...because it might just be a freaking miracle.

Plus, Baconnaise.

UPDATE: It appears to be available for purchase at Lund's and other local food places.
UPDATE: Here is a great article from AdWeek about Bacon Salt.
UPDATE: I love this quote from the article, "For some reason, roller derby girls love bacon," said Lefkow.

The Valentino dockumentary is going to be splendid.

I am very interested, extremely interested, hope this movie is playing here soon, very soon. Fashion porn is my favorite treat, it is like candy...better than candy.

The economies not great, no holiday party, very sad.

From this source, a letter to employees of ABC News from company president, David Weston (poor David, that must suck...he has a nice way about his writing style, though):

We report every day on the economic climate and the effects being felt throughout the country. We are not immune from the downturn. At the same time, the importance of the election and economic stories reminds us how much we have to do to help our audiences absorb and understand what is going on around them. What we need to do—and will do—is to make sure that we have all the resources we need to cover the news.

To that end, we (together with the rest of the Media Networks Group) are adopting the following, new guidelines to reduce some of our administrative costs.

1. All executives are asked to fly one grade below what they're entitled to. Some have contractual provisions on air travel, and the company is not breaching any contracts. But we are being asked to use our discretion on this.

3. All executives are asked to stay in "B" level hotels. I'm told that Travel knows what this means.

4. Starting immediately, the only business meals for which we will be reimbursed are those with third parties. Any meals (or drinks) with ABC or Disney employees will not be reimbursed.

5. All non-production (i.e. administrative) travel must be pre-approved by the CFO (in our case, Jim Hedges) in writing. Your finance and operations people can help you with this.

6. As of December 1, we will cancel all subscriptions (newspaper and magazine) for executives and production employees and move them to on-line. This change will have the added benefit of helping the environment. If there are particular circumstances where you believe this will materially impair your ability to get your work done, you should make your case to your executive producer or supervisorby November 15th. Dave Davis, Kate O'Brian, and Paul Slavin will review these requests and submit their recommendations to me.

7. We're asked to keep any convention or conference attendance to an absolute minimum. Anyone who attends things like NAB or RTNDA, we need to have a conversation. If someone needs to attend, it will be a skeleton crew.

8. We'll forego all holiday parties this year. This means that the company parties in LA, NY and DC are cancelled.

Thanks again for your understanding and cooperation. I won't pretend that this won't be difficult. But, I truly believe that there is a way for us to do this together that will result in a stronger ABC News.

Icecreams Art.

TIMOTHY BERG "TASTY TREATS"

Sarah Palin porn as reenacted by Ricky Gervais.

Found a full clip. NSFW or MSFW or TSFW depending on your work and what not, you know, if you like to use those headphones on your head and such, then you might be able to listen like a maverick porn listener and join the real Americans...who love America and love freedom and guns and pie and porn like Joe Six Pack the Plumber. He sure can clean the pipes, if you know what I mean. He can snake a drain like only a true American can and you can bet your gosh-howdy that he loves America more than those New York elitists, with their book readin' and learnin' and sciencey things and such that only goes to say that they spend more time noodlin' their noodles than ka-noodlin' thier wives, like they ought to be doin' with their kamasutras and their liberal, un-American ways of love making, what with knowing about the female parts that god intended to hide away like a little sad flower so as to protect the purity and sanctity of lady-ness.
So, in conclusion I would just like to say that yah, you know how to be truely American when you can bang it out like good-ole' Joe.

We were so close, but we just couldn't find the Northrup King Bldg.

The Northrup King Building in NE MPLS is a rather famous and frequented artist studio building. Whole weekend long events use it as the center point. Everyone in the are community seems to know someone who has a studio at the NKB.

So, how can two relatively smart ladies on a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon fail to find this building?

Turns out Jane and I were only a few 100 feet from the building at one point, but we turned the other way and became further confused by stupid dead-end Jackson street.

We left with the address, 1500 Jackson St. NE. No need to look at a map, it is in a familiar part of NE to be sure. The streets are the names of Presidents and the numbers get either bigger or smaller. It is a huge building. I think we have been there a few times before.

We drove to University, went to 15th Ave, took a right drove to the end of that street, did the jog over to 14th, but then went right again and not left. Ended up back Broadway and then found Jackson continued on that side, that was useless.

We went back towards the 331, pulled over to ask a Dad out biking with his three young children. He walked up to car window and said in a joking tone, "I am sorry, but I am married. Otherwise, I would love to."

He did not elaborate on what he would "love" to do...you will have to fill that in on your own.

We asked him how to get the Northrup King Building. He immediately began saying something about going down Broadway and turning on Kennedy. He tried to confirm his vague directions with his children. His children ranged in age from about 3 to 6 years of age. They still had training wheels on their bikes. How could they possibly know whether their father's ramblings about which street and which building it was and how to get there were accurate?

Still, he was persistent and tried his best to provide direction. Ultimately, only convincing himself of his accuracy and usefulness.

Not convinced, we pulled up in front of the 331 and asked again. Two typical boys, black tees, dirty jeans, converse, 20 or 30 something, who can tell anymore, came up to the car window. They said, "You are looking for some men? We are right here."

They were cute enough, but we were not looking for boys and drinks, we were looking for my friend's jewelry sample sale.

We asked them how to get to the Northrup King Building. They puzzled for a minute. They said, it was up Broadway and something...then yelled to a girl for further clarification on their ramblings. She, being a waitress at the 331 and I know for a fact a long-time art-type person gave us directions very confidently.

The directions were to a completely different building in a completely different part of NE. She said, got down Broadway to Stintson and then turn right and then right again.

Now, those of you familiar with the area will know that going all the way to Stintson means you are at Hennepin East and no where near the Northrup King Building.

So, having nothing better to do and no clearer idea, we took a lovely driving tour of all of NE. We followed that with some yummy snacks from Azia. No jewelry show, no Northrup King Building and no longer will ever bother asking directions in NE.