Lauer Snuggie'd, Coldplay to Get Served?

Did you see that Pepsi commercial during the Super Bowl with Bob Dylan and his modern counterpart, Will.I.Am, rocking the Pepsi generations? Personally, I think equating those two is ridiculous. Everybody knows that Kanye West is the voice of our generation, and pairing West with Dylan only makes sense: you can't can't understand a word either one of them says.

- The Today Show drank a bit too much Kool-Aid this morning, and everyone wound up Snuggie. While Snuggie-skeptic Matt Lauer went so far as to admit the blanket-but-better was indeed warm, his cynicism shined through, noting, “There is not one thing found in nature in this fabric.” The Today Show cautioned per Sec. B-1 for plugging an item from The Don't-Buy List.

- The video above doesn't accomplish much beyond putting on full display the incredible mediocrity of both Joe Satriani and Coldplay. I mean, after all, it's a pretty uninspired chord progression, and it doesn't bode well for Coldplay now that everyone knows a) anyone could have written it, or b) they needed someone else to write it. But the revelation that teams of lawyers with video cameras will be stalking the Grammys to serve the band with a lawsuit is pretty interesting news. Coldplay cautioned per Sec. B-4 for apparently waiting to find out whether or not the chords is question are Grammy-worthy.

Morning Yellow | 12.03 - Do Blankets Bother You?

Wake up and smell the yellow:

- I'm not a hockey fan, nor are most of my friends. If you are a hockey fan, you might know who Sean Avery is, but you don't need to know hockey to know that talking about "sloppy seconds" to a TV camera is a bad idea. Nobody told Sean Avery. Cautioned per Sec. BI-6 & 7 for not thinking before opening his mouth.

- Also in sports, Portuguese wunderkind and Man United striker Cristiano Ronaldo has been awarded the relatively prestigious Ballon d'Or trophy (you know it's prestigious because it's name is French, but it involves sports, so, it's relative). This means that FIFA thinks that last season Ronaldo was the best soccer player in the world. I'm awarding FIFA the Ballon d'Yellow.

This is Iker Casillas. His pretty face is all sad because he didn't win.
It's okay, Iker. You won a way cooler trophy than that punk, Ronaldo.

Since you didn't ask, I'd have tipped Spain and Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas for the trophy. He allowed the fewest goals (16) in Spain's La Liga, made a questionable back line look downright ironclad, started every single game all season, led his club to a league title and his country to a European Championship, and stopped two penalty kicks against defending world champions Italy in doing so. FIFA cautioned per Sec. BI-6 for disrespecting San Iker.

- Last, but not least, Mint would like to call questionable on the folks at Snuggie:

(Note: As a public service, I removed the embedded video, which started
playing when the page loaded. Now the pic is a link to the website.)

The user comments on this one are hilarious. "Are you the kind of person who asks for ice cubes with your milk?" Or, my favorite, "Oh, yeah, I remember this from a couple years back... it's called a ROBE." Snuggie cautioned per Art. BI-1 for sullying the good name of blankets. Also, Snuggie has been added to The Don't-Buy List.