Four Miles From Boring

Upside Down, Mixed Up World

It's snowing in Seattle... Nearly 60 degrees in Boston... What a weird season!

At least I have new coffee mugs to make things normal!

posted by Allison @ 6:29 PM 0 comments

Wickid Retahdid

Check out Dunkin Donuts new commercial and see if you make the same observations I did:



Observastion 1: The people who this ad appeals to are too stupid to understand anything beyond a second grade vocabulary.

Observation 2: Dunkin Donuts needs ads to try to brainwash people into drinking their swill..unlike my other faves who never need TV ads.

Observation 3: The makers of this ad are hypocrites..being as Dunkin Donuts also offers such nonsense drinks like the Coolatta and the Dunkaccino. WTF are those?!? NONSENSE!!!

posted by Allison @ 5:35 PM 1 comments

Read 'Em And Weap

FCC clears way to seal WLVI sale
Deal brings a new 10 p.m. newscast
By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff
| November 21, 2006

The Federal Communications has approved the transfer of the broadcasting license of WLVI-TV (Channel 56) to WHDH-TV (Channel 7), the last major hurdle to the sale of Channel 56 to Channel 7's parent company.

The approval, which came last week, clears the way for the sale to close Dec. 18, with WHDH launching a new 10 p.m. newscast on Channel 56 the following night, said Michael Carson, WHDH's vice president and general manager. More than 100 employees at WLVI will lose jobs when the sale is completed.

WHDH's parent, Sunbeam Television Corp., owned by Miami media mogul Ed Ansin, agreed this fall to buy WLVI from Tribune Co. of Chicago for $113.7 million. The two local news broadcasts will be consolidated at WHDH's Boston headquarters. WLVI's building on Morrissey Boulevard will be sold, Carson said.

Also yesterday, Carson, 65, said he would retire in July after leading the station, an NBC affiliate, since 1993. He will stay on as a consultant for a year following his retirement.

Randi Goldklank, the sales director, will succeed Carson. Goldklank joined WHDH in August 2005, after working four years in sales management at WSVN-TV in Miami, also owned by Ansin's Sunbeam Television Corp.

The transition at WHDH comes as traditional media -- broadcast television, radio, and newspapers -- grapple with new competitors and fragmented audiences as Internet, cable, and satellite technologies advance.

WLVI, an affiliate of the new CW network, was among several properties put up for sale in recent months by Tribune Co., which, like many other media companies, has come under pressure to improve financial performance and boost stock prices. Tribune Co., which publishes the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, is now considering selling itself.

WLVI in 1984 launched the Boston market's first 10 o'clock newscast, but has struggled to hold on to viewers in the face of competition from WFXT-TV (Channel 25), the Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliate.

WHDH is expected to revamp the 10 p.m. newscast to appeal to younger viewers. Owning more than one station in a market allows companies like Sunbeam to reach more viewers, while cutting costs by consolidating operations

posted by Allison @ 1:13 PM 0 comments

Required Reading

If I ever teach a class, I'm making T.C. Boyle's *Tortilla Curtain* mandatory. I don't even care that I'm not teaching Lit. Holy crap that book will make you think. Heartbreaking..thought-provoking...well-organized...symbolic...

Damn, that's some of the best $6.50 I've spent at a used book store yet!

Read it. Now.

posted by Allison @ 9:39 PM 0 comments

You're Gonna Make It After All!

Ah...the land of opportunity!! Because here in America, my friends, you can do anything!

Just look at what these people created! Sheer genius!

Carpe carp! Seize the Fish!

posted by Allison @ 5:23 PM 0 comments

Another Reason Massachusetts Sucks

MASSACHUSETTS BALLOT QUESTIONS
Voters reject three statewide questions

BOSTON (AP) - Wine drinkers must continue to visit liquor stores
for a bottle of red or white after Massachusetts voters rejected a
ballot question that would have allowed sales in grocery stores.
Question One went down to defeat after the most expensive ballot
initiative campaign in state history, with opposing sides combining
to spend more than eleven (m) million dollars.
The opposition was led by a coalition of independent liquor
store owners who warned that wine sales in grocery and convenience
stores would lead to more underage drinking and more drunken
driving fatalities.
Chris Flynn of the Massachusetts Food Association -- which
backed the measure -- said voters (quote) "were misled by a
negative, scare campaign."

*******

What every happened to the land of liberty? A free market economy? Customer choice? Classy, Massachusetts voters, very classy...forcing your puritanical, out-dated beliefs on those who think differently than yourselves. Don't worry..your gross, trashy package stores have been saved! Your already classy convienence stores won't have booze in the aisle..trashing up your Cheetos display and cigarette counter. Thanks for voting against the right to choose.

And so I'm making this choice. I will not go into you, gross packy. Never again. I will only buy wine at the few grocery stores near me that sell Pinots and Reislings. I will drive the extra miles..I'd rather give my money to the oil tycoons than to you jerks at the liquor store who refuse to let me choose.

Cheers!

posted by Allison @ 5:55 PM 0 comments

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It's Egg Nog Latte time!!!

Oh, and I officially accepted a new job. Hurray! Bring on my severance bonus!

posted by Allison @ 12:58 PM 0 comments