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Sometimes I Really Hate This Town

Super J — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:03:30 +0000

Apparently, anyone can adopt a highway in Colorado, even if you’re a bunch of lowlife nazis. That’s right, the Colorado Department of Transportation let a group called “National Socialist Movement Denver Unit” adopt a 1 mile stretch on I-85 near Brighton. A group who’s official agenda is “Only heterosexual ‘pure-blood whites’ should be allowed citizenship. All others should be stripped of their civil and constitutional rights.”

Apparently Steve Hershey, the jackass who approved the application is too worried about a lawsuit to do the right thing. When asked if al-Qaida would be eligible to adopt a highway in the state, Hersey replied, “I’d have to consider it.”

Super.

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_14261448
http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?ID=20445

Finding A Place to Shop

Super J — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:59:22 +0000

Well, this whole Jomnivore thing isn’t going to be as easy as I thought. First, my Irish/Italian wife said that there’s no way she’s cooking with gefilte fish. I suppose I don’t really blame her, since it really is quite disgusting. I’m not going to worry about that for a while, since I’m putting off the gefilte gastronomy session as long as humanly possible.

The real problem is the shopping. I went to King Soopers (the local grocery chain) yesterday to see what sort of selection they had and this is what I found:

Yep, one small section for Jewish “ethnic” food. Matzoh, matzoh ball soup mix, gefilte fish jars and some random kosher stuff. It looks like I’m going to have to try a little harder in order to get this rolling.

I did a little searching and managed to find a website called Kosher.com that sells all things kosher:

Thankfully, they offer free shipping on orders of $50 or more, so at least I won’t go broke from shipping charges. Since there’s about 5 Jewish people in Boulder, apparently there’s not much of a market for a grocery store that sells the chosen food.

Does Blogging Suck or Do I Suck at Blogging?

Super J — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:07:28 +0000

For the past year, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with this blog. I don’t know if its because I have to manage two blogs at work (one being my sad attempt at trying to be funny while blogging in the voice of Frank, our ceramic bulldog), but for whatever reason I just haven’t been able to get motivated to write about anything with any consistency.

Then it struck me. I like food, I’m Jewish, so how about Jewish food? Everyone’s seen the Omnivore 100 list, but I’ve never seen a Jomnivore list. That’s right, a list, tasting and review of cuisine that is uniquely Jewish. This of course means that at some point I’ll have to try the most vile of all Jewish food, the dreaded gefilte fish, but I need to get back to writing and I need something to write about, so a mini torpedo of miscellaneous fish parts dunked in some disgusting mystery juice is a small price to pay.

I sure hope old Speedy is nearby, because my stomach already hurts thinking about this little project of pure masochism.

A Special Hanukkah Salute from The Birdman

Super J — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:16:01 +0000

Its nice to know that I can always count on the Denver Nuggets to be unbelievably vile and inappropriate. I opened up my copy of the Denver Post on the first Night of Hanukkah and was given this special gift as a reminder that people are stupid (sorry about the hatchet job with the scissors, its been a very rough week).

Yes, I know that this is probably unintentional and hopefully both Arby’s and Chris Anderson are embarrassed that they put a giant picture of a tatted up angry looking thug giving the old “sieg heil” salute, but still, gimmie a freaking break.

Just another reason to despise both the creators of the slimy, stomach churning “Big Mo” and of course my hometown Denver Thuggets.

Thoughts on Cyber Monday

Super J — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:46:20 +0000

I’ve been doing the online marketing thing for over 15 years now, so you’d think I wouldn’t be surprised when Cyber Monday drops the hammer on the holiday shopping season. Once again, we blew last year’s Cyber Monday number out of the water and as is customary, I was pretty surprised. It happens every year, but I still am shocked at how people have become so conditioned to start shopping when the media tells them to.

The early reports are showing an 11% increase for online sales across the board, which is a great sign considering the fact that our economy is a long, long way from recovery. The question though should really be about profit.

Yesterday I took part in the annual tradition of vulturing deals from online stores. I picked up a copy of Guitar Hero 5 for twenty bucks with free shipping from Amazon, I grabbed a wireless mouse and keyboard combo with free shipping for forty bucks from Dell and I almost bit on 20% off sales at the Dodgers MLB store and Palmer Cash (I do love my funny t-shirts). I shopped the loss leaders and like most online shoppers, failed to add any “regularily priced” items to my cart.

All this makes me wonder if stores are really making any money on these crazy doorbuster deals. I know we’re very strategic about what we sell and the price we sell it at when it comes to Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials, but are stores really making much money on $3.99 DVDs when customers like me are only grabbing those deals and not bothering to even look at anything else?