This is what I do at work.

Part of my job at BYUtv, on top of writing copy for their advertising campaigns and their new website, I write voice-overs for new TV series. Here's one we just finished.

Talk about tripping over the finish line.

Let me sum this up quick.

Carlos Dunlap of the University of Florida, last years defensive MVP of the BCS national title game, was cited for a DUI early Tuesday morning. So top-ranked Florida will be without one of its best pass rushers against No. 2 Alabama in the Southeastern Conference championship game.

Dunlap had been considered a top-10 pick in the NFL draft... and now he is not going to play in the SEC championship game and if they win, he won't play in the BCS title game either.

Take about tripping over the finish line.

Most people wake up and pour themselves a glass of O.J. not me; I go straight for the Kool-Aid.

I have put a lot of thought into this, and I have finally come to a conclusion. These are my top three favorite Kool-Aid flavors.

#3 – Black Cherry

#2 – Tropical punch

#1 - Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade

Rejected Story Book Titles

As some of you know on top of my Advertising Major I am minoring in English, with an emphasis in creative writing. One of the classes I am taking this semester is a class on how to write Children's Books. For our first assignment we had to come up with 100 Story Book titles to help spark ideas and topics for Children's Books we will write throughout the semester. Our Professor gave us feed back on which ones he liked and which ones he didn't.

Here are some of the Children's Book Titles that my teacher rejected...

• "You Are Different and That's Bad"
• "The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables"
• "The Little Sissy Who Snitched"
• "How to Get the Childproof Cap Off your Brother's ADD Pills"
• "How to Dissect a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."
• "Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book"
• "Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will"
• "Controlling the Playground: Respect through Fear"
• "These are Mommy's Happy Pills"
• "We're poor because we had you."
• "Katie Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her"
• "All Cats Go to Hell"
• "That's it, I'm Putting You Up for Adoption"
• "The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator"
• "The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy"
• "Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way"
• "Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games"
• "Your Nightmares Are Real"
• "Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School"
• "Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things"
• "Daddy Drinks Because You Cry"
• "Bi-Curious George"
• "Strangers Have the Best Candy"
• "Some Kittens Can Fly!"
• "Playing with Fire Can be Fun!"
• "Where Would You Like to Be Buried?"
• "The Attention Deficit Disorder Association's Book of Wild Animals of North Amer- Hey Let's Go Ride Our Bikes!"
• "You're Why Mommy's Fat"
• "What Is That Dog Doing to That Other Dog?"
• "Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?"
• "Testing Homemade Parachutes Using Only Your Household Pets"
• "Start a Real-Estate Empire With the Change From Your Mom's Purse"
• "The Care Bears Maul Some Campers and are Shot Dead"
• "How to Become The Dominant Military Power In Your Elementary School"

"Authentic" Italian Food

My wife and I are big Italian food fans. We have eaten at dozens of different Italian restaurant from Salt Lake City to San Diego, and something has come to our attention.

Every Italian restaurant that claims to be "authentic" usually isn't very good. The ingredients look and taste as if they were from a can. The food seems poorly prepared and the most obvious blunder of all, the food just don't taste very good. It's usually simple and bland. One of the biggest reasons I think we as Americans eat out, is to eat nice food that we can't prepare ourselves. I don't know why anyone would go to these "authentic" Italian restaurants, and pay for entrees they could easily make at home.

Did you know?

My classmate from London told me today that...

In England they call English Muffins - Muffins
And they call Muffins - American Muffins (like a blueberry muffin)

FYI.

Argentine Film Festival Ads

I love these commercials, however...

If it's not for you

It's not for you

Bored at work?

Check out these websites.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

http://www.fmylife.com/

http://www.theonion.com/content/index

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Top three highest known prices paid for a painting!

#3

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for $135,000,000 in 2006

#2

Willem de Kooning's Woman III sold for $137,500,000 in 2006.

and the #1 highest price paid for a painting goes too..

Jackson Pollock's No. 5, 1948 sold for $140,000,000 in 2006. (good year for art dealers)

Today's prescribed vanity isn't fair!

Today's prescribed vanity isn't fair, in order to be connected or noticed one must have a Facebook page, twitter account, personal website and a blog. And what do you do with these components? Talk about yourself?
Facebook asks; What's on your mind?
Twitter wants to know; What are you doing?
I say, who really cares?

Okay, hold on, I have to admit its nice to log on to Facebook and check out what my friends are up to, from time to time. However, when I sign on and see my friend Sarah has taken the "Which Disney Princess are You?" quiz 5 times until she gets the response she's looking for, I say to my self, is that really necessary?
Or when Ashton Kutcher feels that it is crucial to inform everyone on twitter that he had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch. I mean, come on now.

So why am I starting this blog?

Because all of the AD recruiters said so. Apparently having a personal writers journal is not good enough, they want you to post all of your thoughts and writings online
So I guess I will be moving my writers journal to this blog.

-Enjoy