Iran

Things are heating up in Iran.

If by saying heating up, do I mean an end to the status quo of old indifferent men having sex with young boys (as if from Athens!) and controlling the state through a tortured tangled web of religious rules and edicts, making all women second class citizens...um no.

Who are these Mullahs? And who died and made them in charge? The state motto is "Independence, freedom, Islamic Republic". How much freedom would one expect in a country where the head of government is called the Supreme Leader..ala' Der Fuhrer.

What would Cyrus the great and Darius I have to say about all of this?

How strong is a country that outlaws Valentines Day?

They never learn

Imagine that you are a big shot executive at NBC and you need to make a decision to renew or not renew your distribution agreement with Apple's itunes. NBC is a media company. They sell entertainment, news, schmaltz..you get the idea. The old way of doing this was through 'box sets', DVDs at Wal-Mart, Target or some other retailer. iTunes sells your product 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, complete with real time sales figures, demographics, metrics (this is worth a lot of $money, kids). And nothing is lost or stolen. NBC, CBS, FOX and the other cable networks all offer programming via iTunes for about $1.99 per episode, retail. And remember we (NBC) represent about 40% of the iTune videos sold!

So, what do you do?

(A) Renew the agreement and promote current offerings on your network.

(B) Ask for more money, maybe sharing some of the marketing costs.

(C) Accuse ipod owners and iTune users as being criminals and make DRM demands...oh and ask for a 100% increase in your 'cut'.

Well, this being Hollywood and the closest source of intelligence is La Jolla or San Jose, good decision making is never their strengths. So NBC wants to move its offerings to hulu.com (who?)

and charge above and beyond the usual $1.99...good luck. 99%+ of your market is familiar with the iTunes brand. Who's heard of Hulu.com? Up until a few months ago, it was a site hosting pics of some tech-guy's daughters and pets. I'm sure he got a $check out of the deal...so hats off to him.

The word of the day at NBC should be Bittorrent.

hulu.com...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hulu.com/

You know...for kids!

'Kid Nation', a new bizarre television offering from the minds at CBS is already thinking about its second season. It seems Detroit is leading the pack of potential season two host locations. The show, takes about 40 children, ages 8 to 15, and places them in a 'ghost town' to see if they can build a 'working society' without the help of adults. The First season is hosted in a New Mexico.

The obvious advantages of using Detroit for season two are overwhelming. And if successful Detroit would have its first 'working society' for almost 40 years!

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's office didn't offer any comments.

A penny for your thoughts...

Minneapolis, the 'city of lakes' seems to have a very active airport. Who would have guessed that there were connecting flights between Boise and Washington DC?! Ok, so Senator Craig got arrested for "disorderly conduct". Which in this case, he tapped his foot under another occupied stall in attempt to 'get it on' in the mens' room....with another man. He wasn't even in California! He wasn't even a Kennedy! What the fuk was he thinking!

So, a few weeks have gone by and not only does this guy look like a poof but he's also a pussy, for being in 'denial' of being at least bi-sexual.

Larry! You have one foot on the dock and your other on the boy..er..boat. Make up your mind.

Worth Billions

Chicago, IL-- Alan Sobcheck has what he calls a "real working crystal ball". He claims to have peered into the future and actually seen the day he will lose his viginity. The image conveyed to him from the "power of the ball" was unclear, "I couldnt see her face, but she was hot", says Mr. Sobcheck. He does have a feeling that it might be a girl he knows from the local "Dungens, Dragons and Elf magik shoppe".

We asked the Manager/owner of the 'magik shoppe', and he knows Mr. Sobcheck, but admits that he hasn't seen a girl in his shop since early 1995.