It’s Brooklyn Restaurant Week, March 19-30, 2007.
Ah, got to love these obnoxious free speech cases that somehow make it to the US Supreme Court; they kind of make you shake your head and sigh. Only these kinds of cases give you headlines like “Supreme Court hears ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case.”
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick posts her take on the oral arguments on the “Bong Hit 4 Jesus” case, plus she poses how this alternate universe could have been with a Ch. J. Alberto Gonzalez and J. Harriet Miers.
The NCAA tournament has some curious commercials:
Bud Light has this ad where Driver and His Girlfriend picks up a hitchhiker – who, the Girlfriend notes: “He has an ax.”/ Driver: “He has Bud Light.” (yeah, a whole bunch of bottles, like that’s a consolation; even though Hitchhiker has a beard and wears flannel, he didn’t look like a woodsman) / Girlfriend: “He has an ax!” / Driver asks Hitchhiker: “What’s with the ax?”/ Hitchhiker: “Umm, bottle opener?” And, so Hitchhiker joins them. The commercial closes with Driver pulling up to pick up another hitchhiker, one who wears a hockey mask and has a chainsaw and – what else? – some Bud Light. Girlfriend looks at Driver like he’s really crazy now, and Hitchhiker, who’s sitting in the back with the beer and the ax, also gives Driver the same look. Hitchhiker: “He has a chainsaw!” Commercial closes before Driver goes through the whole “But, he has Bud Light!” thing. A strangely amusing commercial, I think.
Sprint brings back the Asian Guy and Silly White Guy from last year’s NCAA tournament ads for this year’s Sprint NCAA tournament commercials. Asian Guy has his cool cell phone, so cool that you can watch NCAA on the teeny-weeny screen (ok, so I’m not very impressed); Silly White Guy… well, he really needs a new phone. Still not sure what to make of either of them: Asian Guy has way too much tolerance to put up with Silly White Guy for a friend – maybe they were frat brothers or something. Oh, well…