To keep you up to date on my mundane life, here’s a picture of a squirrel hanging out on my window sill; first time I’ve ever seen that one!
Oh, and how do you like the racing stripes? They were Heidi’s idea and I think they’re all right – she likes anything with racing stripes…
watched this in Denver with my friend on opening night and it was awesome!
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SLC > MSP - I can like Soderbergh, I want to like Carano and the supporting cast is pretty awesome but this movie felt like a big miss. The acting was not great (that was expected), the story was incomprehensible and could only be traced by action scene to action scene and the characters were very under-developed. The stunts were (probably) all done by Carano which for the fighting scenes was pretty cool but lots of the other stuff felt like it could have been better. All told, I'd love to see her in more movies (or a tv show) even though this one was not that great.
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Good performances, interesting characters, good location, and a simple story well told. All that said, I liked it, but I didn't love it. Best quote was, "Give you kids enough money to do something but not enough to do nothing."
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An honest look at the most successful but certainly not the most loved athlete in UFC history, Anderson Silva.
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Documentary about the rise of Air Guitar in the States and it's popularity worldwide. The first few minutes it seems to be really bizarre to be taken so seriously but by the end it begins to seem much more normal.
0.3This time I went with the Sloan quote from Coax Me, “It’s not the band I hate, it’s their fans” due to its applicability in so many situations. Eg. As a Montreal Canadiens fan, it’s not the Maple Leafs I hate, it’s their fans. There are so many sporting situations where this works so well…
Thanks to Michale for the background pic of my newest header.
I’ve also decided create a little bit of header history. I’ve found all of my past headers and listed them for you here…
Hope you enjoyed what felt like the DVD extras of this little website.
Rick’s been sending me some pictures over the last few months and I’ve uploaded them today, so if you want what new with Ezra, check out the pics…
I remember reading this article on Listerine in Freakonomics and recently found it again on wikipedia. A very interesting article about the power that marketing has to create markets that didn’t even exist in order to sell their product into it…
Listerine was invented in the 19th century as a powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in a distilled form, as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn’t a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for “chronic halitosis”—a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerine’s new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate’s rotten breath. “Can I be happy with him in spite of that?” one maiden asked herself. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered a catastrophe. But Listerine changed that. As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, “Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis.” In just seven years, the company’s revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million.
