Yep, it’s FINALLY here! The Barack Obama commemorative plate. Watch the whole commercial on the website. I laughed my ass off at the end when the dude and his family are like “I thought this day would never come.” Is he pissed? He sounds kind of pissed. Of course he isn’t pissed! He wasn’t talking about the election of an African-American president. He probably voted for McCain. He was talking about the firing of a ceramic plate commemorating the election of an African-American president. I want the commemorative plate commemorating the first commemorative plate commemorating the election of the first African-American president.
Now that’s a PLATE you can believe in!
I think my favorite part in the commercial is when the guy is at his desk writing a letter or something and he glances over at his Barack Obama Commemorative Plate and nods his head and smiles like he was all “Man I just CAN’T write this letter to the editor of Readers Digest. “YES YOU CAN” -Thanks Barack Obama!!”
Check out the image, they spelled certificate, cirtificate. Now that’s a Spell Checker you can’t believe in!
UPDATE
Check out Lewis Black and the Daily Show’s take on the Obama Commemorative Victory Plate. Just remember, you heard it here first at OnDeafEars.com.
UPDATE 2 (GW): Here is the commercial on YouTube. The official site may not be there forever, and we can’t have a classic like this going away just because the election is fading in the rear view mirror.
UPDATE 3 (GW):You may also want to check out the report I filed after my trip to the Obama store. No, I’m not joking.
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Here’s a video of Fleet Foxes performing tunes culled from their Sun Giant EP and their self-titled full length on La Blogothèque’s “Take Away Show.” They’re performing outside and inside of Le Grand Palais in Paris to replicate that cathedral sound of their two releases. Such a great band…
Alex’s post containing lots of information and photos related to the upcoming Star Trek franchise relaunch with new actors playing the original cast has been one of our most popular. It’s clear that there is a great thirst for information about the film.
I’m generally not the type to obsess about behind-the-scenes stuff. I almost never watch the special features on DVDs, and I don’t read film gossip sites. All I really care about is, “Is the movie any damn good?”
But with this one, I understand. The original Star Trek series is something I have loved for as long as I can remember. These characters are icons. My childhood heroes. I would take it personally if they screwed this up. It would be blasphemy to screw this up.
I think they’re about to screw this up.
The excellent film blogger Dirty Harry continuously rails about the metrosexualization of leading men. I couldn’t agree more. Previous generations had Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne. We have Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, both fine actors, but does anyone really think they can kick anyone’s ass? OK, Damon was almost convincing in the Bourne series with the help of a lot of fancy camerawork, but he’s no Steve McQueen. Sometimes it seems like Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, and Bruce Willis are the only leading men left with both an X and Y chromosome, and the youngest of them, Crowe, is in his mid-forties.
Captain Kirk kicks ass. He kicked Klingon ass. He kicked Romulan ass. He kicked Khan’s ass. If he needs to, he’ll break the Prime Directive and kick your ass.
Spock uses logic and the Vulcan nerve pinch to kick ass. Scotty uses engineering to kick ass. Bones can kick ass with a scalpel or a phaser, and then wash down his ass-kicking with a mint julep. Sulu kicked ass with a sword once. Chekov enjoys vodka when he’s done kicking ass.
They had to kick ass. They were exploring the final freaking frontier.
Dirty Harry states what is unfortunately obvious. This Star Trek crew looks verymetrosexual. The only one of this bunch who looks like he’d be able to deliver a good solid ass-kicking is Uhura.
The real Uhura once helped commit Grand Theft Enterprise. Now _that_ kicks ass!
The extra-cantankerous Ace at Ace of Spades HQ, commenting on the picture below, remarks, “Somehow Nimoy and Shatner managed to take that same pose without looking like they’re about to make out.”
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