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Monday, February 26, 2007
The Feed is going on hiatus for a bit. Please don't forget us, as we'll be back. Never forget us. Ever.
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Look, Today's Photo Might Be the Best Photo You'll See This Year
  Ben Sklar, Getty Images
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama wears a cowboy hat offered by a supporter after speaking at an outdoor rally February 23, 2007 in Austin, Texas. Obama, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, told more than 10,000 people that it's time to end the war in Iraq and to turn the nation's attention to education and health care.See: More Phenomenal Photos
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Friday, February 23, 2007
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Look, Today's Photo Is Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
 Morteza Nikoubazl, Reuters
An Iranian cleric walks past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran February 21, 2007.See: More
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Mo Rocca 180 - The Soft Drink History Lesson
 In life, there are winners and losers. A new Coke ad celebrating black history month shows the soft drink being present during important events in the Civil Rights Movement. But... some other soft drink -- the loser in this case -- had to be around some horrible episodes in our country's history. Watch Mo's video to see the unlucky fizzy drink.
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FEED Technological Interwebs Difficulty
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Mo Rocca 180 - Oscars Smack Talk, Street Edition
 Football season is over, but the trash talk going down over the Oscar's Best-Actress-Award race makes Chad Johnson look like... Dame Judi Dench. Mo hits the streets to see who's can talk the best Oscar smack.
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Look, Today's Photo Is Right Where We Want To Be
 Jorge Saenz, AP
A dancer performs on a 'Beija Flor' samba school float during carnival in Rio de Janeiro, early Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. See: More
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Info Junkie |
 The advertising
industry today faces a shocking statistic: no one -- not even 'Two and a Half
Men' viewers --watches commericals anymore. With such tools as TiVo and pop-up
blockers allowing us to phase them out, ads (including those featuring talking
animals) are suffering an onslaught of widespread indifference. To counter, some
agencies are turning to what they call 'Seamless Integration', using less
traditional vehicles for pitching products. And what better avenue than by
targeting media's most ubiquitous and profitable receptacle: that's right: the
novel. With companies like Lexus
and Electrolux paying handsomely for novels that prominently feature their products,
it is expected that writers might just be forced to turn that coming-of-age tale
about Boston's Southside into, well, 'The Applebee's Code.'
Though we
here at the FEED are nowhere near financial desperation (but close!) we'd like
to propose several plot synopses for novels that 'seamlessly integrate' a
big-time, deep-pocketed product.
You'll Never Find the Little Shoes in This Town
Again, a Polly Pocket Novel: With a worthless degree, $9 million in college debt and a
regrettable 'Woody the Woodpecker' tattoo, Sarah Evangelista-Stamos moves to New
York and takes a job with a posh PR firm as nanny to the company's powerful CEO,
who is actually a toddler. Using her street-smarts and ingenuity, she
haphazardly handles the toddler's assorted Polly Pockets, not to mention the
unwanted advancements of a handsome business associate who seems really nice but
there must be something wrong with him and it's my rule not to date coworkers
and oh what the hell we're in Zurich for a business meeting. One day, leaving
the Polly
Pockets
flagship store where she had just picked up the 'Miko the Geisha With
Retractable Feet' doll, she comes to the sudden realization that the
Polly
Pocket is
whispering to her, telling her to hang electronic switchpads around the city
with Polly
Pockets
from the popular historical series -- like 'Thunderthighs the American Indian
With Sasquatch Pal' and 'Carrie from the Depression Who Sells Matches and Does
Other Things' -- giving people the finger. Sarah thinks better of this and winds
up marrying a wealthy man and moving to Tuxedo Park.
Operation EMU: a SureCare
Adult Pull-On Novel Featuring Dasani: When deep-space telescopes discover primitive alien life in a
nearby galaxy, NASA immediately conducts an experiment featuring Dasani water to see how far
astronauts can drive a Buick LeSabre cross-country without using the bathroom.
Meanwhile, in a crater in the desert, a low budget film crew making a caveman
movie discover a buried pirates' chest filled with super-absorbent, form-fitted
SuperCare
Adult Pull-Ons with extra leak guards. Back at Maryland's Goddard Space
Flight Center, three astronauts on heavy doses of Nightime Benadryl and
Dasani are launched into space and wake up on a desolate alien
planet complete with woolly mammoths, sabertooth tigers and a prehistoric
community of resourceful half-naked Land's End models. What does it all mean? Buy
the book now on Amazon!
The Five People You Meet in Costco, a
Novel:
Harvey Stamos-Stamos, who is a dead ringer for Colin Farrell, is a really good
guy who doesn't make much money. But he looks good in jeans and has some sweet
Timberlands. He's actually a lawyer but doesn't practice, because he hates law.
So, he's smart. Recently his wife left him and he's really unlucky in love but
everyone around him -- the coffee shop lady, his dentist and the local sherrif
-- are all super hot chicks who often show up on his doorstep at midnight with
Schnapps. But he dies. And when he wakes up he's standing in front of a shipping
crate of Chips-Ahoy Family Packs which in a commanding voice tells him that
Gillette Mach 4 Turbo Blades are 1/2 off if you buy a thousand. And he's
psyched. Before he's allowed a shopping cart, however, he must sit around and
listen to five really boring old people talk about how tough it was during the
war without fresh 8oz Sliced Del-Monte Peaches in Lite Syrup, which are now
complimentary when you purchase the sixty gallon bins of Titleist Pro V1 Golf
Balls. Suddenly a light flashes, he wakes up and the surgeon says he's going to
be okay. And she's smoking hot.
Brought to you by B.
Brandon Barker, FEED contributor and author of the novel Operation
EMU.
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