From Super Sunday to Super Tuesday and beyond

LFAQs of the DAY::

With the the merger of politics and sports evident in the fused coverage of Superbowl Sunday and Super Tuesday, it is natural to wonder: Will we, at the Democratic Convention, see the winner of the nomination turn to the camera and declare as his or her first words as the party's offical candidate, "I'm going to Disney World!"?

Who, come to think of it, is most likely to enjoy going to Disney World: Obama, Hillary or McCain?

Assuming they all went to Disney World: Match each with the rides he or she is most likely to enjoy the most:

a. Frontiereland Shooting Arcade
b. Pirates of the Carribean
c. Hall of Presidents
d. Haunted Mansion
e. It's a Small World
f. Swiss Family Tree House
g. The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
h. Big Thunder Mountain
i. Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
j. Carousel of Progress
k. Cinderella's Golden Carousel
l. Enchanted Tiki Room
m. Liberty Square Riverboat
n. Main Street Family Fun Day Parade
o. The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
p. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
q. Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
r. Peter Pan's Flight
s. Pirates of the Caribbean
t. Pooh's Playful Spot
u. Space Mountain
v.Toontown Hall of Fame
w. Woody's Cowboy Camp
x. Hanoi Hilton's Bamboo Basement

(I'm thinking Obama would be loving "It's a Small World." Hillary would like "The Carousel of Progress." and "Cinderella's Golden Carousel" but be really ambivalent about "The Haunted Mansion" where she spent 8 years. McCain? He's all about "The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm", "Frontiereland Shooting Arcade" and "Space Mountain.")

Will Hillary turn out to the the New England Patriots of the Democratic race--the season long frontrunner and overwhelming favorite who stumbles on the Super day and sees her dreams dashed?

Would it have been a political liability for any of the candidates to acknowledge rooting against a team called the Patriots?

Which is the most compelling rivalry: The Giants vs. The Pats, Hillary vs. Obama or Punxsutawney Phil vs. Staten Island Chuck?

INANE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

I just heard Donnie Deutsch say that "Positivity is the new black."

If Obama wins today, will he modify that to the more racially provocative "Barack is the new black?"

ART PROJECT IDEA:

"Veiled threats." Weapons wrapped in beautiful, form -fitted wrapping paper--to reveal the menace that lurks just beneath the veneer of loveliness. A huge knife wrapped in a paisley patterned rice paper. An ax in beautifully dyed pulpy paper from a fine papeterie. A Glock 9 in yellow gossamer or tulle. etc. It could be called "Not Quite Naked Gun" or "Scantily Clad Gun." Or it could maintain its dignity and skip the spiritually diminishing word play.

SUPERBOWL NOTES:

Overall, I would say that the event was a bit less objectionably excessive and empty than it has been in recent years and hence functioned a bit less as a high budget recruitment film for Al Qaeda. The football game was great. The ads were a bit less lavishly gratuitous (and some like the Tide talking stain spot, the Doritos giant rat spot and the Coca Cola Thanksgiving day battling balloon spot were actually inspired) and, thanks to Tom Petty, the half-time show featured beautiful music performed with some dignity and restraint. It was wonderful to be spared the spectacle of sexagenarians strutting about in an overproduced celebration of preening narcissism and steroid enhanced consumption.

PROPS OF THE DAY:

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message497703/pg1

To Montel Williams for pulling the best impression of Peter Finch in Network since Bill Maher and committing career suicide by speaking about the obscenity of the fact that we as a culture spend all our time talking about Heath Ledger and Brittney and The Super Bowl and not a word about the troops who are dying daily overseas. For exposing the ratings-driven distraction industry for the shameless war-enabling apparatus that it is.

Speaking of which: I really wonder who Eli Manning will start dating now that he's won a Superbowl!

RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY: (Dumbed down in honor of the Super Bowl).

He never metamucil he didn't like.

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