My friend Ron posted this a while ago and it totally cracked me up, possibly because I do like free food, reporter's notebooks and interns.

Stuff journalists like

Today I got some brilliant spam targetted to me through my personal website email address. The subject line was "All your insomnia problems solved." Of course I clicked it open, to find some ad from a 25-year-old girl, etc, etc.

That was perfectly targetted to me. Does that person read my blog or know me? If not, that was just a lucky guess.

After I posted that "Target Women" analysis about cleaning products, I got rather interested in the other segments. They are all absolutely accurate and spot on.

Sarah Haskins, the woman who does them, is really funny.

Here's one about click flicks .

I'm posting it especially for dandelion5 who will appreciate the ending of the segment.

My friend April posted this link on her facebook and it's too good not to share.

Basically the video looks at the sexual implications in cleaning product commercials.

Have a look

I'm signed up for a wide variety of book e-mail newsletters. Yesterday I got my new teen fiction one.

One of the books being promoted was a book called CyclerThe premise for this book is that a teen named Jill has an abnormal cycle that makes her into "Jack" for four days of each month. Jack is a full on teenage boy "complete with all the parts". ( Read more... )

Yes, I am going to see the movie tonight. My coworkers already bought tickets so that a group of us can go.

Last night I was watching the DVDs of Movies 101 . I watched episodes with Sigourney Weaver, and George Clooney ( Read more... )

I just went to the local Safeway, where I saw posters and signs advertising their new campaign to raise awareness and money about prostate cancer. Now, I'm all for supporting awareness and funds for prostate cancer, but their marketing is hilarious ( Read more... )

Yesterday I did a story about three GP guys who are going to be kayaking the Grand Canyon in August. Since the Grand Canyon is protected, you have to enter a lottery in order to be allowed to kayak its river system. One of the GP guys has been trying to get on the river for 14 years, and his ticket was finally drawn this year ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman posted this in his journal, and I read it and laughed so hard that I cried.

Novelist strike fails to affect nation