The Weekly Meat

Season's Greetings

As the most glorious and holy day of the year approaches, I just wanted to take the opportunity to wish you and yours a peaceful and joyous time this Sunday. Enjoy, folks. Be safe. Share the game with those you most cherish. Praise Touchdown Jesus.

 

And remember the words of David Allan Coe: You can count on beer!

Boss

There's this new show on Starz. The promo made me do a double-take.

Kelsey Grammer Getting his Fred Thompson on	Fred Thompson His jowly gravitas-ness

 

(D)Evolution

Original old-school Pumas (à la Walt "Clyde" Frazier) -> middle school Asics -> new school Reeboks.

The stealing and gradual worsening of a fresh, clean design.

P.S. Yeah, Nike, you too.

Advertising versus Editorial Content FAIL

In retrospect, when manufacturing giant Airbus placed an adtvertising buy with CNN, they should have known this sort of mishap was possible. But corporate suits don't usually think in human terms. Especially French corporate suits. And so, below, via CNN.com just the other day, we had the proposterous juxtaposition of Airbus ads running with an article about, well, the failure and crash of one of the very planes on whose merits they hope to sell us.

Analysis of information from the flight data recorders on Air France Flight 447 showed the Airbus A330 plummeted 38,000 feet in 3 1/2 minutes, four hours into the journey from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

A preliminary report by France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) found that the pilots were given conflicting speed readings in the minutes leading up to the crash.

Ads below; full article here on CNN.com (now, most likely, with a different ad).

Comment dit-on "imbeciles" en Français? Ah oui, «imbeciles».

Get Your Meat On!

BREAKING: Wearable Meat now available from the TWM online store. Hip, "now," ironic, "sexy." Perhaps even ironically-sexy. Buy now! Operators are standing by! (*Not actually, but surely you know how to do the virtual ordering thing.)

My younger daughter likes to call this the "cow puzzle shirt."

Apathy = Defeatism: Go VOTE

Well, I was unable to gather together real words in the face of this critical midterm election, but former TWM guest author, and unindicted co-conspirator M. Landman has done it for me. And done it well. Give it a read, and then get out and vote.

Quick Question

Forgive the quick, vegetarian posting, but I'm working on something big. Not important, mind you, but big. Until then, I ask you this...

Is it possible that Ahmed Chalabi and Bibi Netanyahu could be the same Guy? You be the judge....

Ahmed Chalabi Iraqi politico	Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli politico

 

Slightly Creepy Math

Anthony Bourdain + Bill Maher = Billy Bragg

More Separated at Birth

Sometimes when real life meets TV and film, the resemblance is just uncanny...

Mitt Romney Out-of-work politico	Henry Francis Mad Men politico
Ann Coulter Republican nattering nabob	Jar Jar Binks Star Wars nattering Nabooan

 

Appropos of Meat