Monday Meanderings - 12.6.10

Last week I mentioned that I was emotionally surprised by the movie UP. Turns out I'm not alone. Ran across a blog this week that listed the 10 most depressing Disney movie moments.

10. Toy Story - Buzz Lightyear learns he's a toy
  9. Robin Hood - Skippy's coin gets tax collected
  8. The Fox and the Hound - Fox is abandoned
  7. Oliver and Company - kittens for sale
  6. Beauty and the Beast - Beast dies
  5. Dumbo - Dumbo visits his mother in the cage
  4. Bambi - the mother's death (traumatized since childhood)
  3. Wall-E - Wall-E's loneliness
  2. Lion King - Mufasa's death
And the number 1 most depressing movie - UP - "For the introduction to this “high-rise” comedy, the folks at Disney decided to build up the viewer’s expectations by showing a lifelong friendship and romance between Carl Fredrickson and his eventual wife. And once we’ve all become emotionally invested in the couple, the writers rip the rug out from under us."

Should I be concerned that the American Express bill arrived in a large flat envelope that cost $1.22 to mail and contained 12 pages front and back? And this BEFORE Christmas!

It seems that the target demographic for advertising on Monday Night Football is high-end luxury automobiles and bail-bondsmen. Is there a relationship there that I'm missing? And speaking of football, by ending the Boise State Broncos' BCS bowl hopes, the Nevada Wolf Pack cost themselves and every WAC team a million dollars each in BCS revenue. Not one to encourage immoral and illegal actions, but they probably should have just tanked.

On a sports role - any time you can hold a World Cup in a hot Middle East country that's smaller than Connecticut and has zero soccer tradition, you just have to do it. No truth to the rumor though that Cam Newton's dad brokered the deal with FIFA.

And this is a must-have toy for Christmas - the Avenging Unicorn Play Set:

"The set has everything you need to use the power of the unicorn to rid your life of irritations. Put the posable, 3-3/4'' tall, hard vinyl unicorn on a flat surface and then impale one of three 3-1/8'' tall, soft vinyl figures included. Also includes four interchangeable horns (classic spiral, chrome, glow and pearlescent)."

Brought to you by the company that also makes and sells "The Avenging Narwhal Play Set" featuring penguins and baby seals, and the  "Fairy Swatter" for when you are tired of those pesky magic fairies (includes 5 cling stickers of splattered fairy remains).

You can't make this stuff up, folks