Nothing is Sacred

from here:

"Ads for Spider-Man 2 will be placed atop bases at major league ballparks during games from June 11-13 as part of a promotion announced Wednesday."

I've seen the trend over the last few years, but this is just plain disgusting. If everything is for sale then we have no culture that we care about preserving.

From "True Dreams of Witchita" by Soul Coughing:

"And you can stand
On the arms
Of the Williamsburg Bridge
Crying
Hey man, well this is Babylon"

Comments

[erik]

I was grepping around and I found your site. Noticed that you mentioned the Williamsburg bridge, which I live 4 blocks away from.

I'm sure you heard that Farenheit 911 has been squelched. Apparently Jeb Bush does a lot of favors for Disney and Disney owns Mirimax. So they aren't releasing the film which is slated to be the most popular documentary in history (based on the performance of Bowling for Columbine).

[Non Prophet]

Yeah, that line always got me because I know the Willamsburgh bridge(LIE to BQE to free Manhattan. Screw the Midtown Tunnel!), and Willamsburgh Brooklyn a little bit.

I heard about F911 getting squelched. I'm happily surprised about the mountain of media coverage this sensorship attempt is receiving. The story is everywhere. The mouse can be such a rat. :)

My guess right now is that I will see this movie before November.

[Nate]

In case you weren't aware, everything *is* for sale and that *is* our culture. Disney and Coke capitalism, spreading like cancer, ever in search of fresh markets.

By the way, I always take the tunnels.

[Non Prophet]

It's not as bad as it used to be actually... (going around)

The BQE (south of LIE) is really pretty decent these days. No more holes or scary waves of warped tarmac. The lanes are still probably 60% as wide as the default lane width. Getting on southbound from Atlantic Ave., with it's blind 8' onramp is always a test of one's skills. If that challenge was brought here in Colorado Springs there would be a big pile of cars growning by the minute.

These days I no longer feel feel like the road is going to break the automobile before you make it through. It's much improved. :)

[Non Prophet]

Ha! Spidey has been bounced. Maybe we haven't been conditioned to this level of insanity yet?

[Curious Stranger]

While I appreciate Michael Moore's humor and his viewpoint on many things, I've learned to take everything he says with a grain of salt the size of the Williamsburg Bridge.

"I heard about F911 getting squelched. I'm happily surprised about the mountain of media coverage this sensorship attempt is receiving. The story is everywhere. The mouse can be such a rat. :)"

The mouse may be a rat, but it wasn't a surprise, it was a publicity stunt:

"Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it.

The admission, during an interview with CNN, undermined Moore's claim that Disney was trying to sabotage the US release of Fahrenheit 911 just days before its world premiere at the Cannes film festival.

Instead, it lent credence to a growing suspicion that Moore was manufacturing a controversy to help publicise the film, a full-bore attack on the Bush administration and its handling of national security since the attacks of 11 September 2001.

In an indignant letter to his supporters, Moore said he had learnt only on Monday that Disney had put the kibosh on distributing the film, which has been financed by the semi-independent Disney subsidiary Miramax.

But in the CNN interview he said: "Almost a year ago, after we'd started making the film, the chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner, told my agent he was upset Miramax had made the film and he will not distribute it."""