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50 Best Commercial Parodies

May 12th, 2008
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Blogging this primarily so I don’t forget it: the 50 Best Commercial Parodies. Gems from SNL, In Living Color, MadTV, Chapelle’s Show, etc.
Not sure I agree with the rankings; they appear to skew toward 1970’s era SNL, although I was LOL pleased to re-discover #3, “Robot Insurance.”

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My Theory on “Lost”

February 5th, 2008
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I’m not a huge Lost fan, especially since it employs such a painfully slow and opaque storytelling technique. But I’m enough of a fan (and, apparently, enough of a geek) that I’ve got a theory on why the castaways are on the Island. This theory came together watching the final episode of last season, titled “Through the Looking Glass,” which was re-broadcast last week. I about it right before the season premiere so as to cement a public record of my interpretive and prognostication abilities.
So here’s the clues I picked up on.

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