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advertising moment (not that i’m getting paid for it)

In case, like me, you missed them, all the Super Bowl XL Commercials are on Google Video. The unaired GoDaddy ones are some of the most pathetically groping and misplaced use of sex to promote goods and services that I have ever seen outside of a beer commercial. Pepsi might well have noted that “brown and bubbly” is also an accurate descriptor for explosive diarrhea. On the other hand, the MacGyver ad is cool.

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