Sunday, April 11, 2010

People Will Pay For Anything

So, the other day Dallas Stadium, home to the NFL's Dallas Cowboys for a number of years, was demolished after the team moved to a new facility. What's weird is that 20,000 people paid for the right to tailgate and celebrate the demolition. Now, I'm all for spending money on sporting events or even sports memorabilia, but what exactly are you getting when you pay to watch a demolition? Honestly, they're not going to let you take a piece of the stadium home with you. I'll be curious as to what the Cowboys actually charged to be there, because the ceremony amounted to about 30 seconds of actual action. And, jokes on them, cause you can watch the same thing for free right here.

-I take issue with Domino's newest line of TV ads in which they try and win back all the people who talked badly about their pizzas in supposedly 'secret' marketing meetings. They show up at their houses with free pizzas and personal attention. Well, what about me, Domino's? I've been eating your apparently sub-standard pizza for years without a peep. I thought it was just fine the way it was and I'm willing to bet it was a lot more cost-effective than the new ingredients will turn out to be. How about some reward for customer loyalty? Where is my free pizza?

-Charlie Sheen is apparently willing to walk away from his hit TV show, Two and a Half Men over a contract dispute. Now, Charlie, I'm sure you are anxious to get back to films so you can make more fine movies like Scary Movie 4 and Good Advice, but I want you to take a step back and think about David Caruso. He walked away from a good TV gig to make crappy movies and he barely had a career left when he went back to TV. As it stands you make almost a million dollars an episode doing your show. There is no way you can make that kind of money in movies, cause you're not that big of a movie actor and you have a... colorful... private life. Honestly, no one is clamoring for another Major League movie to come out any time soon. The grass isn't always greener.

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