Adam Cadre ([info]adamcadre) wrote,
@ 2009-06-30 23:59:00
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June 2009 minutiae posted.

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[info]sylvanus_urban
2009-07-01 07:16 am UTC (link)
Sample perfume description from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, which Elizabeth has become obsessed with

I take issue with "obsessed."

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[info]ballykissinger
2009-07-01 07:22 am UTC (link)
The thing about Billy Mays is that his stuff wasn't exactly infomercials--just longer-than-average regular commercials. So it's not as if so many people are in fact actually watching 30/60 minute infomercials that Mays' death would be headline news. I'm not sure but I think the reason people think of him as an infomercial person is because I don't know if you can buy OxiClean in actual stores. He's on par with Matthew Lesko or Miss Cleo--recognizable for anyone who watches basic cable.

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[info]adamcadre
2009-07-01 07:34 am UTC (link)
I don't know who Matthew Lesko is. I do know Miss Cleo! I used to try to do the "Call me now for your free reading" line but it always came out Scottish.

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[info]ballykissinger
2009-07-01 07:39 am UTC (link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko I think I actually remember you referencing him at some point, though not by name.

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[info]adamcadre
2009-07-01 07:47 am UTC (link)
"The Riddler had grown old."

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[info]colinmarshall
2009-07-01 05:23 pm UTC (link)
It's funny you bring up relative perceptions of Michael Jackson; I was just thinking (read: "getting ideas in my head straight for a post") about the same subject, since I missed the guy's height of both artistry and normality but still consider him just about as "important" as does someone who had a Thriller-filled sixth grade. In fact, I wasn't even born when Off the Wall or Thriller came out, and I was too young to be much aware of pop music when Bad was big. The name "Michael Jackson" didn't mean anything to me until the early 1990s, and then I only knew him as a scary public freak who was in some kind of high-profile legal trouble. Up until I'd say mid-middle school, I never realized that he once looked like a regular person and made music that wasn't overwhelmingly paranoid, ludicrously self-aggrandizing and embarrassingly kitschy. And yet that latter-day M.J., even though I got to know him first, has no dampening effect on whatever appreciation I've now developed for his pre-Bad iterations. Hmm...

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(Anonymous)
2009-07-01 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Like Mendel, Goddard, Kafka, and Bach, Keyboard Cat only became truly famous after his death. The popular VHS tape of him is nearly twenty years old, and 'Fatso' played himself off this mortal coil back in the 90's.

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[info]sylvanus_urban
2009-07-01 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Say it ain't so!

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[info]shihtzu
2009-07-01 08:03 pm UTC (link)
I am afraid it is documented!

And yes, apparently people watch infomercials. I don't understand it, but it makes a weird sort of sense when I'm reminded that some people live with a TV blaring every waking minute and even claim that they can't concentrate on homework or reading if it's not on.

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