'Bred Crumbs

10:16 AM Successories, the company that makes those obnoxious "motivational" posters that companies put on office walls to attempt to inspire workers in lieu of enjoyable jobs or actual appreciation, announced yesterday it fired 42 people to save money after revenues sank. Hmm, what's the "successory" for a cut staffer?

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04:00 PM Here's a great fantasy with a great website, and it isn't porn -- it's the Golden Gate Tunnel.

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Jane rightfully urges everyone to check out the sports wing of the online Catholic Supply store. Of the breathtaking Jesus action figures here, she loves the hockey one, but I'm drawn to the football one, wherein some holier-than-thou Pop Warner tyke appears to be trying to tackle Christ. For that matter, what a wuss the quarterback from Galilee is depicted as -- handing off, for His Own sake. This is the kind of savior that would just not be acceptable in, say, Green Bay.

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02:12 PM Perhaps the quickest way to get depressed about your alarmingly advancing age is to make the mistake of reading the "you can't buy cigarettes if you were born after this date" calendar at a grocery checkout counter.

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11:16 AM Lack of inspiration this post-holiday morning is utter, so let's just steal a truth from a more together 'blog, Using Bees to Effect Vengeance:

By bombarding us with advertising, marketers have engendered a mutant strain of ad-resistant consumers. As a result, they're having to become either subtler, more entertaining, or more tightly entwined with the actual content in order to get people to pay attention. Seems to me that this is akin to an arms race that cannot be won -- at what point do marketers pull back from the brink?

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