Monday, October 11, 2010

Heidi Klum, Khloe Kardashian, Kate Rice, Focus Of The Gossip Queens Racism

Heidi Klum, Khloe Kardashian, Kate Rice, are all in relationships with black men: Seal, Lamar Odom, and Allan Rice and now Jamie Foxx for Kate Rice. OK. Fine. But not so fine with The Gossip Queens.

What's the The Gossip Queens?

It's a new show by Comedian and now Producer, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios company. Touted as the "gay" version of The View, it has a set of pretty hot women including Loni Love, Bernadette Pauley, and Michelle Collins. Then Alec Mapa apparently fills the gay male slot. Another words, no straight black guys on the show produced by a straight black guy.

This blogger found the show as it's on KNTV TV Channel 11 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since the last program watched was Football Night In America, the 49ers vs Eagles game, that channel was on when the TV set was activated.

Loni Love 

Blasting Black / White Relationships


What this blogger saw was Heidi Klum, Khloe Kardashian, and Kate Rice being made fun of because their men were NBA players or in Heidi's case, Seal. And all of this with eight minutes of the show. The one host, Loni Love was doing all the blasting, so much so she sounded more like The Angry Black Chic than a gossip commenter.

Loni Love said that if Seal and Heidi Klum could be married then anything was possible, leading one to wonder, what does she mean? She never completed her idea, but really Love didn't need to. We got it.

Then she went to remark how Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom were not really in love. And that was when it was obvious that Love herself is single - no wedding ring.

Then, came Kate Rice.  The former wife of Allan Rice is reportedly dating Jamie Foxx.  Love commented that she looks like a little girl, and then, no surprise here, observed that a photo of Kate and Allen looked like a "mini Khloe and Lamar."

Ok.  We get it girl.  You're a little salty about the whole interracial dating thing.  But you've got a great, pretty face and are talented; drop a few pounds and it will all come together for you.  

But don't hate on Heidi Klum, Khloe Kardashian, and Kate Rice because they've got what you want. You sound racist. Cheer them on!

Oh, and have Byron bring this single, straight black guy on the show to balance things out.

Brett Favre Scandal Update: Jenn Sterger To Cooperate With NFL

The latest update on the Brett Favre Scandal - what some are calling "wiener-gate" - is that NY Jets Sideline Reporter and Playboy Model Jenn Sterger (photo by Gossipopi.com), who was the alleged focus of Favre's "sexting" actions that were reported by the sports blog Deadspin, is going to cooperate with the National Football League.

What happened, if you don't know the story, is that two years ago, Brett Favre, now a quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings, was a QB for the same Jets he will face on Monday Night Football, tonight. During that time, he reportedly expressed interest in meeting Jenn Sterger, and so enlisted the help of someone in the Jets PR department (the person named, Jared Wiley says he didn't do it) to get her phone number.

Once Favre got the number, it's alleged that he called her to schedule a meetup and sent her photos of his penis. All of this was uncovered by Deadspin, which reportedly paid $60,000 for the photos, and then posted them without a care for decency.

Now, a person reported to be or have been a massage therapist for the Jets came forward to explain that she too had been contacted by Favre in the same way. But what's not clear in that case is how he got her number - that story seems fishy to me.

Now, according to Pro Football Talk, Jenn Sterger will Cooperate With NFL in its investigation. Moreover, Brett Favre said he's willing to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Deadspin Attacked On Favre Story


Meanwhile, Deadspin has received major heat for its decision to post the photos of what's said to be Brett Favre's cock. What's bothersome here is that Brett has yet to categorically deny the story.

Stay tuned.

99ers: Obama seeking questions - Katie Couric launches "American Voices"

Have a Question for the President About the 2010 Elections?
President Obama will be delivering a special message for supporters via webcast during Tuesday's Commit to Vote House Parties. He'll be speaking about our work during this final stretch and how we’ll succeed in November.
The President will also take a few questions from supporters on our Vote 2010 campaign.
If you want to be heard by the president, submit your question via this link: http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/housepartyquestions?source=STW All 99ers and unemployed should flood this website with your questions about or demands for Tier 5 legislation.

Another way for the unemployed 99ers to be heard on this vital issue is through a new CBS Evening News feature called "American Voices," introduced last week by Katie Couric. American Voices will air regularly between now and the November 2 election, as a window into what Americans are feeling about what are the most important issues to the voters across the nation.
In last Thursday’s segment (see video below), Ms. Couric first played a clip of President Obama in a Cleveland stopover two days before the 2008 presidential vote, in which he said the time for change had come. Then, the CBS anchor settled in at Slyman’s Restaurant – whose reputation for corned beef and working-class customers also earned a visit from President Bush in 2007. Now, Couric chatted here with two men and two women about themselves, their vision of the country, and their feelings about the future.

“Heading into an election, I have always believed it’s incredibly important to get a sense of where Americans stand by talking to real people whose daily lives are being affected by the policy debates in Washington,” said Couric. “When talking to these voters, I was so impressed by their thoughtfulness and how reasonable they were, even when they had understandable cause not to be.”

Katie Couric anounces in the video below that one can contact CBS news with your contribution to the American Voices segment, by visiting their website http://www.cbsnews.com and clicking on the American Voices link. The San Diego Unemployment Examiner could not locate the American Voices link but did find the contact page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml?tag=ftr

If Video is not working, please visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6937157n&tag=related;photovideo

Brett Favre Fans Attack Deadspin Blog Over Penis Photos

The Deadspin sports blog may have broke the story of Vikings Quarterback Brett Favre allegedly "sexting" New York Jets Sideline Reporter and Playboy Model Jenn Sterger, but it has paid a heavy price for doing so and not just monetarily.

Deadspin, and particularly it's Editor Al Daulerio, is being heavily criticized. So much so that Daulerio has taken the action of posting some of the emails received from irate Favre fans, and they are nasty to say the least.

Like this one:





"Hey AJ. It's funny that this happened over 2 years ago and the story is coming out now??????? What motive could there be, other than to discredit the guy, and bring turmoil to his wife, and 2 daughters.
Jen Sterger is a slut. While she tries to come across as someone with "big boobs who has morals," ANYONE who poses nude, has other woman grabbing her breast from behind, is nothing more than a whore, and YOU are a little weak, pathetic weasel, who probably doesn't have 1 fragment of athletic ability in him.
You and your degenerate website are disgraceful and you will answer to God one day for the turmoil you and the tramp Jen Sterger have created for his family. And please, tell the trollop to stop with the "I was afraid of losing my job" routine. I'm sure we would have kept it by some other means.
If you have any balls and want to write back, I'd be more than happy to respond...[J]ust think, you earn a living by ruining other people's lives. Your famliy must be very proud of you.
How much were you and the slut paid? 30 pieces of silver? There is a place for you, and it's called Hell. Why don't you just hang yourself?.........You are such a coward.
PVP"

The problem is the decision to post the penis photos.  The story was fine with the audio recording of messages said to be left by Brett.  But the photos were another issue.  Plus, the story's two years old, and with the exception of another woman who also claims to have been a Jets employee, but that's not confirmed, no one's talking.

Deadspin reportedly paid someone over $60,000 for the penis photos that may not even be of Brett Favre.   What doesn't make any sense is why wouldn't Brett send a photo of his face is to show it's really him?  That's the kicker.

Gives a new meaning to the name "Dickface."

Meanwhile, the NFL has started an investigation into the issue.

Stay tuned.

Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) OK After Bar Fight, Herve Leger Dress Stars

As Kim Kardashian knows, Being famous attracts strange, angry people. Last Thursday night, a drunk man at the New York City night club Juliet's Super Club at 539 West 21st Street, asked the star of Keeping Up With The Kardashians if he could take a picture with her.

Kim said yes to his request, but the man's reportedly drunk girlfriend took exception to the event and tossed her drink on Kim's form-fitting grey Herve Leger mini dress.

The result is one of the hottest photos of 2010 (photo by TMZ.com) and a new dress concept.

Kim Out With Sisters In NYC


Kim was out with her sisters Kortney and Khloe as well as Kortney's boyfriend Scott Disick when the drama happened.   After the drink toss, Scott reportedly went into what The Huffington Post called a "drunken rage."   Huff Po also reports that Disick has an interesting history with the Kardashians,  particularly in being a colorful person on their show Korney and Kim Take New York.    

On the show, he reportedly flashed his privates and punched a hole into a wall.  With that, the New York fracas was right up his alley.  Scott tried to spring to action, but according to The Daily Mail was restrained by night club staff.

 On her blog website, Kim reports:



Last night Kourtney, Scott, Khloe and I went out to a bar to have a fun night on Khloe’s last night in NYC. A drunk male fan came up to me and asked to take a picture, and I obliged, but his girlfriend, who was also drunk, got a little out of hand.

Luckily I had Scott and Khloe there to protect me. None of us were drinking… we just wanted a fun family night out, but when people see the cameras rolling, they try to get attention and I guess that’s what happened when the drunk girl saw that we were filming KKTNY. I always take the high road, so we all left straight after and didn’t feed into their drama.

Ok, moving on!


And moving on hotly. Kim should have Herve Leger make a "pre-doused" mini dress. But the dress should have black leather instead of water or alcohol where the spill pattern was. It would sell and cause Kim to make millions from someone's jealous fit of rage.

Wonder what kind of cocktail it was?

Meanwhile, who's the other beneficiary?  Juliet's Supper Club, known for hosting A-listers, now has an A-list story.

Brooks Conrad's Three Errors Cost Braves Against SF Giants

You know Sunday's NLDS Game 3 was hard on Atlanta Braves Second Baseman Brooks Conrad when KNTV Channel 11 Sports Reporter Laura Behnke, a Giants homer, or is supposed to be, getting on Conrad as if he played for the Giants and they wound up on the losing end of a 3 to 2 score. "He was brought up from the minor leagues and probably should not have been in the game," she said, or words to that effect.

Brooks Conrad has went from unknown to goat and a leading search trend, all because of a series of errors that led to the Braves dropping the game against the Giants on Sunday. He's the first player to commit three errors in one postseason game. The term "He's got to be the sickest man in America," can now apply to Brooks Conrad instead of Cowboys Tight End Jackie Smith. (Smith dropped a sure touchdown pass from Quarterback Roger Staubach in against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIII.)

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and the AP, Conrad was beside himself, saying "It's completely embarrassing. I feel absolutely terrible right now. I wish I could just dig a hole and go sleep in there." Conrad had eight errors in the past seven games.

Brooks Conrad, the Braves replacement for the injured Martin Predo, made three critical errors. The first one was in the 1st inning when Conrad failed to field a grounder by the Giants Jonathan Sanchez.  The second error happened when Conrad failed to catch a ball dropping from high in the air due to the Giants' Cody Ross - it bounced out of his glove and allowed Mike Fontenot to score making it 1-0 Giants. The third one was a when the ball hit by the Giants' Buster Posey when he let the ball pass between his legs and into the outfield in the ninth inning, allowing the Giants to get the go-ahead score.

Conrad's errors overshadowned Giants Pitcher Freddy Sanchez' 11 strikeout day.

The Giants can close out the series with a win Monday in Atlanta.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Chicago Marathon 2010: Tsegaye Kebede vs. Sammy Wanjiru

Sammy Wanjiru
While Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya and Liliya Shobukhova of Russia were repeat winners in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and two runners from Michigan topped the Americans who ran the race, the best news is there were no mishaps like the ones that damaged the image of the 2009 Chicago Marathon.  But the talk was about the battle between Sammy Wanjiru and Tsegaye Kebede.

That event was held in record temperatures for the marathon. It was 89 degrees and 90 percent humidity, leading to a number of runners not finishing or in the case of a 35-year old man with a heart disorder, passing away after collapsing.

This year, the temperature was a much cooler but still warm 68 degrees. Sammy Wanjiru said it was his favorite weather. According to Running Competitor, Wanjiru beat Tsegaye Kebede from Ethiopia, but it wasn't easy. Kebede would take the lead, only to have Sammy come back and catch him. Later, Kebede would observe "He get recovery he come again" in talking about running against Sammy Wanjiru. Wanjiru would post a time of 2 hours, 6 minutes, 24 seconds, 19 seconds faster than Kebede.

Having personally observed Wanjiru at the 2009 Bay To Breakers, Kebede's right.  This blogger has never seen anyone run so fast for such a long stretch of distance, as Wanjiru did over the last mile of the 2009 Bay To Breakers.  When the temperature cooled as the runners approached the ocean, Sammy kicked it into another gear.

Wanjiru, truly an amazing runner, has a technique he says he developed at the Beijing Olympics. It's a series of surges after rest periods along a run. Apparently it worked. Wanjiru set an Olympic record of 2:06:32.

Chicago Marathon Won By Sammy Wanjiru For Third Straight Time

Sammy Wanjiru, the winner of this year's San Francisco Bay To Breakers for the second straight year, just won today's Chicago Marathon for the third straight year as well.

In the 2010 Chicago Marathon, Wanjiru was in a battle with Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia.   Read more about it here.

In 2009 Sammy set a course record.

Here's the account of the 2009 run according to Chicago Marathon Blog:






CHICAGO — Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya won today the Chicago Marathon with the fastest time on American soil, finishing in 2 hours 5 minutes, 41 seconds.

Sammy Wanjiru set both American and course records but missed the world mark in the 2009 Chicago Marathon. On a chilly fall morning – 33 degrees at the start – the Olympic gold medalist in Beijing pushed the pace impatiently and won the race.

With temperatures hovering just below the freezing mark, Wanjiru turned in the best time in the U.S. and beat by one second the mark of 2:05:42 set by Khalid Khannouchi in Chicago in 1999.

He got US$75,000 for winning and $100,000 for the course record.

In the final agonizing feet before he hit the tape, Wanjiru nearly missed that record and a lucrative payday by waiving his arms in premature celebration. He nearly made a mistake in waiving both arms too quickly, but recovered just in time.

The world record of 2:03:59 is set by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin on Sept. 28, 2008.

Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco made a late push to finish second in 2:06:04, with Kenya’s Vincent Kipruto in third (2:06:08).

On the women’s side, Russian Liliya Shobukhova won a much-slower paced race in 2:25:56.

American Amanda McGrory set the course record by more than 4 minutes in winning the women’s wheelchair race in 1:39:46.
Australian Kurt Fearnley made it a three-peat on the men’s wheelchair race in 1:29:09.

List of Chicago Marathon female winners
1977: Dorothy Doolittle, United States
1978: Lynae Larson, United States
1979: Laura Michalek, United States
1980: Sue Peterson, United States
1981: Tina Gandy, United States
1982: Nancy Conz, United States
1983: Rosa Mota, Portugal
1984: Rosa Mota, Portugal
1985: Joan Benoit Samuelson, United States
1986: Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway
1988: Lisa Weidenbach, United States
1989: Lisa Weidenbach, United States
1990: Aurora Cunha, Portugal
1991: Midde Hamrin, Sweden
1992: Linda Somers, United States
1993: Ritva Lemettinen, Finland
1994: Kristy Johnston, United States
1995: Ritva Lemettinen, Finland
1996: Marian Sutton, United Kingdom
1997: Marian Sutton, United Kingdom
1998: Joyce Chepchumba, Kenya
1999: Joyce Chepchumba, Kenya
2000: Catherine Ndereba, Kenya
2001: Catherine Ndereba, Kenya
2002: Paula Radcliffe, United Kingdom
2003: Svetlana Zakharova, Russia
2004: Constantina Diţă-Tomescu, Romania
2005: Deena Kastor, United States
2006: Berhane Adere, Ethiopia
2007: Berhane Adere, Ethiopia
2008: Lidiya Grigoryeva, Russia
2009: Lidiya Grigoryeva, Russia
2010: Lidiya Grigoryeva, Russia


Sammy Wanjiru - more than Kenya itself, which is what Americans talk about when the conversation of long distance running comes up - has come to dominate the sport.

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Oakland News: Oakland Unemployment, Mayor's Race Coverage

The talk is about how ABC's Diane Sawyer focused on unemployment in Oakland, California, but rather than in a negative light, did so with a positive light. The blog OaklandSeen has a good take on this, but overall it's more of the same for our city.

Oakland gets headlines for its negatives all too often, and for good reason. There's little to offset a near-20-percent unemployment rate.

Think about that.

It means one of every five adults you pass by on the street is without a job. Plus, it means that the other 30 percent may be just scrapping by. That's a tragedy. Tech can help save that - starting an online business - but many don't have the know how, and it's even harder to teach people and hope they get it.

But it's got to be done. More on that later.

Oakland Mayor's Race Coverage!


On the matter of the Oakland Mayor's Race, The East Bay Express and other publications are finally giving all of the candidates attention. That's worth celebrating.

As stated before here, anyone who is able to get signatures and get on the ballot to run for Mayor of Oakland is to be honored with media attention. The point is to let the people decide who should be Mayor of Oakland, not the media.

Room 389 Gets Golden Bear Praise


While out in San Francisco at The Balboa Cafe, this blogger ran into Norm, who was a popular bartender at The Golden Bear, what's now called Room 389 (for 389 Grand Avenue). Norm had high praise for Room 389 saying "They've got the right mix of people to be successful." In other words, it's not all one color of people but well-integrated. Moreover, it's the kind of place were you see people from the neighborhood, much like The Golden Bear. Room 389 fills a social void on that part of Grand Avenue that's been ignored for too long. Pay a visit.

The one wish from this space is that they do a deal with the Chinese Food place next door called Golden Lilly. The family that runs the place has consistently good food and service. Bringing Golden Lilly service to Room 389 is the missing ingredient.

Oaktoberfest Today


If you're not into Fleet Week, or can do both, head over to Oaktoberfest in the Diamond District at Fruitvale and Mac Arthur for fun and food.

Councilmember Jean Quan's Newsletter Skirts Law


Oakland District Four Councilmember Jean Quan's latest newsletter comes close to being an ad for her run for Mayor of Oakland. This because of an entry about a mailer by the California Prison Guard union and on Rank Choice Voting.

Quan should have used a separate mailer to address those issues because she's running for Mayor. Otherwise it looks like she's using taxpayer dollars to finance her own campaign. In her newsletter, she states her own take, which is just like Quan would do in a newsletter for her run for Mayor, if she had one.

She needs to establish a newsletter for her campaign, and if she's done so, inform the media.

Zennie62 Growth


Finally, sorry about my lack of posts, but this blogger has worked to overhaul Zennie62.com to where it is now: as a major provider of online news. The last round of code changes has done the trick, search engine placement is perfect, and the next step is to expand the code fixes to the overall Zennie62 blog network.

Much to the surprise of many, one can take a blogspot.com blog and turn it into a competitor for online space against The LA Times, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and yes, SFGate.com and The SeattlePI.com.

And all of the code changes are not "black hat SEO" but obvious in-your-code-face fixes that blogger's do not write much about. In fact the last few changes were done on a hunch, not the result of research on what others have done. The hunch worked. Now, back to SFGate.com.

I continue to post at SFGate.com and The SeattlePI.com, because The Hearst Corporation has been a good organization to work with.  Indeed, in the digital space, The Hearst Corporation properties have high potential.  What really upsets this blogger is that SFGate.com and The SeattlePI.com can be, but are not as large as The Huffington Post.    That's an issue.   An issue I took up in a different way.

My nature is to be both entrepreneurial and scientific in my approach to media. The only way to show any media organization that there's a different, better way to do media, is to just do it.   Google has been a major supporter here, by providing a fantastic platform in Blogger.com and great support.

What drives me, to a degree, is the fact that in the past newsrooms were closed to blacks, minorities, and women. Now, some want to save the same culture that discriminated against us for so long. It's time to destroy it and move on to a better, more democratic and meritocratic system.

What's holding back progress are the journalism schools teaching the old way, pushing stupid-assed ideas like "hyper-local" which is hyper-stupid, and not teaching students about the revenue side of the business. Perhaps because the J-School people don't know about it themselves. If they did, hyper-local blogs would never have been considered a good idea.

Why? Simple. By restricting news to local areas, the publisher reduces the level of potential revenue that can be made. Period. The rule in media is that big stories pay for small ones. You can't have a successful business with small stories paying for each other. The reason is that local blogs eat each other for attention, and so can't muster enough money to pay salaries.

Yet, Oakland North, and The Bay Citizen.org are with us. In the case of The Bay Citizen, which is the feature of this video...



...it will burn through the $5 million it got from Warren Hellman and that will be that, because it's hyper-local. I don't know who wrote their business plan, if it exists, but I'll bet it didn't factor in the increasing number of blogs in The Bay Area.  The only factor that saves The Bay Citizen for now is the fact that the other blogs don't work with each other for some of the dumbest reasons.  This is especially true in Oakland, where Oakland North is part of the scene.

In Oakland North's case it's the product of the Berkeley J-School and produces no revenue for itself to pay its student reporters. (Really, it's not worth a mention.) So students don't have to figure out how to sustain it, because the Berkeley J-School does that. The result is the students come away with an unrealistic view of media and no business experience in it.

That's the fault of the Berkeley J-School.

Jenn Sterger Playboy And Brett Favre Knock Down Rick Sanchez

The twin combination of Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Brett Favre's alleged sexting of his privates to Jenn Sterger, and the revelation that the New York Jets sideline reporter that she is, is was also a Playboy model has worked to dominate search trends, at least on Google, and knock Rick Sanchez and CNN from the popular search ranks.

What's interesting is that neither topic has been talked about as much on television as on the Internet. Little by little, Internet search trends are becoming separated from television. That's only anecdotal, not a scientific analysis.

But the observation is that as more and more people turn to online sources for news, and as television news becomes more and more fragmented, the trend will continue until television's role as influencer will only be in the case of big national and World events watched by millions, like The World Cup, or The Super Bowl.

What it also means is that more, not less of the time, sex and scandal on the Internet will rule the search trends of the day.

Jenn Sterger Playboy Rules Search


In the case of "Jenn Sterger Playboy" and "Brett Favre," those terms have been repeated with different combinations of words and winding up repeated six to eight times on Google Trends hot searches over the last three days, or since the Jenn Sterger Playboy and Brett Favre issue got hot.

It will only intensify, and keep Rick Sanchez and CNN off the pop search grid, or at least way down in it. If you remember, Rick Sanchez was fired by CNN last week for saying that Jews ran it and the media. For most of the week, until Wednesday, Rick Sanchez was the most consistently popular topics online.

Stay tuned.

Mark Zuckerberg, Make Your Own Movie Called My Social Network

Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly not happy with how he's portrayed in Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network. Moreover, some tech observers have said the movie fails to tell the real story of the development of Facebook.

Heck, do a search for "The Social Network accurate" in Google and you'll find a number of articles and blog posts claiming it's not, and some saying it is.

With all this, Mark Zuckerberg should make his own movie and call it My Social Network.

The Social Network Not The First Silicon Valley Movie

Wired's Fred Vogelstein says Mark Zuckerberg should like The Social Network because it brands him officially as the creator of the World's Largest Social Network. Moreover, he says it's the first movie about Silicon Valley. (Where he's wrong. The first movie about Silicon Valley is called Pirates of Silicon Valley and was made in 1999. Yes, it was for television, but Vogelstein didn't qualify his statement, leaving himself open to correction.)

Hunger For Movies About Commercial Tech People

While The Social Network isn't the first movie about Silicon Valley, it is the first major movie about an Internet company that grew out of Silicon Valley. It's success proves that people want to see movies about the people behind the products they use. That's why Mark Zuckerberg should make his own movie: what better way to communicate his thoughts than via movie form?

While Mark's got the money to do it, spending a lot on the idea that the return will be bigger than that for The Social Network, is stupid. An even better play is to do a documentary-style flick that's in-your-face with Mark looking at the camera and setting the record straight. Not for the whole movie - no one would sit for that - but at least for some scenes.

Don't Like The News...

The point is, if you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. Mark should know that, being in the Internet business of helping people communicate their message. Now, it's time for him to do it for himself.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster (Old Spice Commercial Parody)

The Old Spice Commercial has spawned a ton of copies (including one by this blogger) but none are funnier than Grover of Sesame Street in "Smell Like A Monster."

Grover strips down to his towel and also rides what he thinks is a horse - it's not. (Actually, it looks like Miss Piggy.)

Then he has a set of tickets in a clam as a gift for you, but the clam bites him on the nose! Poor Grover.

The video contains a number of totally funny missteps and is not to be missed. Here it is":



Oh, and don't forget to watch this blogger's video thanking the Old Spice Man for, well, check it out:



Stay tuned.