Oh, wait, no it doesn’t:

I was reading an article by John Hodgman about being a celebrity (via Kottke) when I noticed this odd ad from GQ:

Tell me, what exactly do you think GQ is offering me as a free gift? And is the free gift meant to appeal to men, or women?

Since I’m flying out of the country tomorrow, I figured I might as well just decide that I’m finished with this and throw it online:

If you’re exceedingly nerdy AND have very little taste in stickers, pins or magnets, you can pick up one of these at Cafepress for the next five minutes. Based on my past experiences with CafePress, I’m certain they’ll decide this violates one of their many, many restrictive and killjoy-based policies.

Past iterations of this idea can be seen here and here.

Sources for Creative Commons pictures: Wil Wheaton and Joss Whedon.

A new swing at the Whedon/Wheaton bumper sticker idea (this one without typos):

4th Swing:

5th Swing:

I’m not actually sure what to do with this. The idea seems funnier in my head than on paper.

UPDATE: A new version is now on sale.

Despite mediocre reviews and a slightly goofy trailer, I really do love the concept of Noise (just like I loved the concept of The Believer). The poster, like the concept, is great:

I’m perplexed as to exactly when this movie came out, but it’s evidently been released… somewhere. I’ll have to pick it up on DVD at some point.

Oh, and check out the DVD’s cute tag line. Awwwwww.

Scissors? Spatula? Why not combine them and use them to cut pizza!

I can’t tell if this is the best idea ever, or the worst idea ever, but it’s 100% pure SkyMall.

Via Doobybrian and Rand Good Stuff.

NYTimes has the most misleading headline of this political season: “Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy.”

“They asserted that readers would understand that they were laughing with the dwarf actors and not at them.”

I had to stop studying when a screaming fight broke out outside my apartment, so instead, as I threatened earlier, I made a goofy bumper sticker:

I think this one ultimately needs more work (my creative process is long, boring and seldom does much to improve my original work). Maybe it needs a spaceship or two…

Sources for Creative Commons pictures: Wil Wheaton and Joss Whedon.

UPDATE: I’ve posted a new version, without typos, here.

UPDATE UPDATE: A new version is now on sale.

Kissing With Ross is troubling as all hell.

Dasani, Coke’s water brand, has a line of drinks called Dasani Plus which includes Cleanse + Restore, Defend + Protect and Refresh + Revive. They’ve got some fruit in them. Anyway, the weird part is that they include both the word “plus” and the symbol “+” in their names, making their full titles Dasani Plus Cleanse + Restore, Dasani Plus Defend + Protect and Dasani Plus Refresh + Revive. It seems like an odd titling inconsistency.

This reminds me of my confusion about (and a little bit of anger towards) the naming of the 101 Dalmatians Sequels. First we had One Hundred and One Dalmatians, then a re-make titled 101 Dalmatians (we’d forgotten how to spell numbers, I guess), then a sequel titled 102 Dalmatians, and another sequel titled 101 Dalmatians II. They couldn’t come to an agreement on how to number sequels, so they just did, you know, whatever?

In fairness to Disney, 102 Dalmatians was a sequel to the remake, while 101 Dalmatians II was a sequel to the original, and they probably felt some obligation to maintain independent numbering systems, but I only blame them further for oddly deciding to do sequels to both a remake and an original in reverse order. They brought this bizarre inconsistency on themselves.

I saw a bunch of these posters in Hollywood and was drawn in because they decried the shooting of what appears to be a ten year old by the LAPD. “Yegads,” I thought, “how did the LAPD manage to shoot a ten year old?”

As I got closer I noticed that the man was 21 when he was shot, not ten. The poster’s maker used an 11 year old photo. Now, look, I have a lot of sympathy for the friends and family of anyone shot and killed by anyone, but it’s awfully misleading to use the picture of a child to draw people in to your rally.

The story itself, according to the LATimes, is that Chaudhry was sleeping in the bushes outside an apartment building when two police officers approached him and asked him for ID. There was some interaction and then he stabbed one of the officers in the hand. The officer then shot Chaudhry three times in the stomach.

The family seems to question (1, 2) the official story, but doesn’t really provide an alternative one. They mostly seem mad that the police took a full month to notify them of the shooting (seems like a fairly reasonable complaint considering that he had ID on him).

I just thought the use of the picture in the poster was interesting.

UPDATE: Thanks to a commenter, here’s a more recent picture of him from Facebook:

It’s been a long time since I posted anything about Amy Pressman, but I just noticed a webpage confirming that Suzanne “Suziey” Block will be playing the title character in the independent film Finding Amy Pressman. Read more about it at the bottom of the original Amy Pressman post.

I saw a trailer for Blindness the other day and was startled by the fact that someone appears to have made a less compelling version of Children of Men. Instead of being about a world where people can no longer have children, it’s about a world where people can no longer see… and they both star Julianne Moore.

Seems kind of lazy; Children of Men only came out two years ago, did they think we’d forget?

When I watch episodes of Lost on ABC.com, I don’t see any ads in between segments of the show. Does nobody see ads, or is my ad blocking software removing them? If so, that’s fantastic!

Yuck.

The best trailer ever… if only I knew ANY Japanese. Via Yes But No But Yes.

The poster for Towelhead isn’t nearly as good as the poster for Baghead.

Baghead has my favorite movie poster of the year:

Reminds me of this picture that Nacho used to have on his Friendster page, which would probably have made a better movie.