A Michael Vick promo during In Living Color’s Lassie ’90 skit? I salute you, BET, for your comedic timing.

Have the Sham Wow and Vince become contemporary cultural icons?

As usual, I’m up early on a Sunday morning working on ideas related to personal projects that build up in my head during the week. I like to keep the TV on for background noise since there’s nothing worse than absolute silence. Anyway, I’m clicking away on the keyboard and begin to hear a Sham Wow commercial, complete with a song.

Seriously? There’s something that’s just a bit fucked up about all of this. The Sham Wow is made in Germany though, and you know they make good stuff, so I guess that sort of makes up for some of the absurdity of it all.

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I went to go see God of Carnage with a couple of friends last night. The show was absolutely fantastic! James Gandolfini had the crowd falling apart with his character’s mob references in how he made his kid’s hamster “disappear” and his childhood gang talks with Jeff Daniels. Hope Davis’ character’s vomiting all over the set was a bit much, but certainly broke up the long dialog it followed. Marcia Gay Harden really looked like she was giving James’ character a serious beating at one point, and she flung herself at him like she was going for blood!

The tickets were a bit pricey, and I think that I ended up getting a little more than I paid for…

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