I'm sorry, this week isn't a real column. After all, it's the Friday before Super Bowl. You are either going to party all day on Sunday and watch the game, or you will find some alternative party and complain about how overrated Super Bowl is. OR you will just sit at home and drink hot cocoa all day. In any event, you probably won't be doing anything crafty.
So here's what you've got to do. A DIY Terrible Towel, made from a ShamWow!
Go Steelers!
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Vince looks like shifty-eyed dinosaur.
that dude creeps me out so much.
sosososooso much.
I've kinda always liked that guy. Is that wrong?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAH
@ Cale
Yes, it is. Just kiddin'! Sorta...
Vince Offer is an ex-scientologist. He's a survivor!
Hey Cale, thanks for the photo and new background on my work computer (this is the only thing that has replaced the Steelers' logo since September).
if only it was the vince dinosaur with the terrible towel shamwow, eh?
also, awesome article: http://www.slate.com/id/2190658/pagenum/all/
My friend independently confirmed that we used to see this guy tweeking out at raves in staten island in the late 90s. Somehow it all makes sense.
Being old, or him being the spokesperson for ShamWow?
It certainly does.
Hey, where did Dave v. Katie thread go????!!!!!!... I simply must have my share in the discussion.
So Dave felt unfairly treated by the Express, and there was some unpleasantness. But shouldn’t Dave have stipulated his inclusion in the article before agreeing on the interview? Of course, yes. “Dearest Katie, “ he should’ve said, “I’ll reveal you my ideas on cheap interiors proviso you explicitly credit me for them in your article.” Well, did he? Of course, not. Being too trustful, hopeful, and all that. So Katie learned him a surprise lesson. Fortunately, Dave’s disappointment wasn’t lasting.
But what about Katie? Does she deserve the condemnation? Should she be sent back to Missouri on her motoroller in disgrace? Nope. Katie did the right thing. Why? Because, as we all have known since the kindergarten, in this false dog-eat-dog world using others to advance our own ends is a norm. It's commendable, even. In short, I don’t see any particular wrongdoing on Katie’s part, except for the style of her writing.
To end this gracefully, Dave and Katie ought to shake hands, thank their friends and family for support and move on.
Ernest,
Unfortunately I do not know what happened to the previous thread. However, the funny thing is that my interview with her began exactly as you stated! I said to her something to the effect that I would speak to her on the record as a source for her piece, but that I wasn't particularly interested in just chatting on background. If you want to do that, just go on Google, like any good reporter. I told her I had been burned before when people would "interview" me and just twist it into their own prose.
That's exactly the reason why I was so pissed, and why I don't particularly believe any of her explainations. If by the end of the interview she KNEW she wasn't going to use any of it, then why did she insist that she wanted a photographer to take photos? That seems like an awful waste of time if I was indeed the very last person she would speak with and that my ideas were childish and lame.
Meh.
He's not just the spokesperson, he owns the company. The product already existed, he just rebranded it. Very successfully.
soft enough to caress a baby, strong enough to smother it: