Charlie T.'s Picks*
Gimme All Your Luvin (with MIA and Nicki Minaj)
Spike and I agree on this inclusion. It's the only single she has to push right now and her handlers probably think that because it's a ZZ Top cover, all the meatheads watching will love it. It's going first to set up Madonna's entrance. Minaj and MIA will be on stage first and Madonna will come rising up out of the stage wearing a furry guitar.
Music
Going backwards in time here. I wanted to say 4 Minutes would be the next song but there is no way they are letting Justin timberlake anywhere near a Super Bowl halftime again. Even though they should. Also, I can see Minaj continuing on stage to collaborate on this song.
Material Girl
She has to play something from the 80's. Like A Prayer is a little popular of a pick right now and Like A Virgin isn't going to make primetime airwaves, so this is the next logical choice.
Don't Tell Me
Because it was written by the venerable Joe Henry.
Ray Of Light
This is going to be the closer. It shuoldn't be, but I think they are going to want to close on a more contemporary note.
*Missed Opportunities:
This Used To Be My Playground with a stage full of dancers wearing Peyton Manning Jerseys
Take A Bow with a stage full of dancers in Tim tebow jerseys
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Big Baby: An Incomplete History of Self-Selected Nicknames
The Celtics quest for 72 is long since over, so let's shift our attention to random Celtic facts. For instance, Big Baby says he's done with that moniker and wants to move on to Uno Uno.
First of all, Uno Uno? Does Glen Davis have latino roots that I've missed? Uno Uno is deadeningly uncreative- it came from a sycophantic journalist, after all.
So let's look at some of the history of people trying to choose their own nicknames, an exercise in futility if ever there were one.
Kobe Bryant//The Black Mamba//only caught on in mockery...the amount of thought he had put into the "strikes with precision and deadliness" aspect is embarrassing.
Radio Shack//The Shack//Do the marketing genii behind this campaign really think they're gonna change public perception? Is Radio Shack beloved enough to anybody to ever get a nickname or even an abbreviation? "Oh yeah, man! I get all my AC adapters at The Shack!" No. Never gonna happen. It reminds me of a girl I knew in college who, while we were on a roadtrip and stopping for lunch, suggested going to "Carl's J." Carl's J? Really? You're gonna abbreviate the "unior" off of that? We started abbreviating every restaurant we saw after that: Taco B, J in the Box, Burger K, El P Loco. You get the idea.
The cast of Jersey Shore//(multiple)//all I want to say is: please let that whole shore just wash into the ocean. Please. If it can happen in hundreds of disaster movies, it has to be somewhat plausible. Please.
Laura Schlesinger//Dr. Laura//not even a doctor, yet this one somehow stuck.
Michael Jackson//The King Of Pop//at least he had a case, once upon a long ago time.
George Costanza//T-Bone//we all know how that went. He eventually became the way-less-awesome Koko.
Prince//unpronounceable symbol//the Purple One gets a pass because it was mostly a ploy to free himself from a record company's grip (imagine if an athlete changed his name just to get out of his contract)...it became "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" when, really, the dude should've just come up with a new word for how to pronounce the symbol...he eventually went back to Prince
Shaq//The Big Aristotle, The Shaqtus, more//the difference with Shaq is that he recognizes the impermanence of a self-selected nickname and embraces it. He doesn't expect (or want, for that matter) any of the names to stick. It's impressionistic and disposable and he loves it.
First of all, Uno Uno? Does Glen Davis have latino roots that I've missed? Uno Uno is deadeningly uncreative- it came from a sycophantic journalist, after all.
So let's look at some of the history of people trying to choose their own nicknames, an exercise in futility if ever there were one.
Kobe Bryant//The Black Mamba//only caught on in mockery...the amount of thought he had put into the "strikes with precision and deadliness" aspect is embarrassing.
Radio Shack//The Shack//Do the marketing genii behind this campaign really think they're gonna change public perception? Is Radio Shack beloved enough to anybody to ever get a nickname or even an abbreviation? "Oh yeah, man! I get all my AC adapters at The Shack!" No. Never gonna happen. It reminds me of a girl I knew in college who, while we were on a roadtrip and stopping for lunch, suggested going to "Carl's J." Carl's J? Really? You're gonna abbreviate the "unior" off of that? We started abbreviating every restaurant we saw after that: Taco B, J in the Box, Burger K, El P Loco. You get the idea.
The cast of Jersey Shore//(multiple)//all I want to say is: please let that whole shore just wash into the ocean. Please. If it can happen in hundreds of disaster movies, it has to be somewhat plausible. Please.
Laura Schlesinger//Dr. Laura//not even a doctor, yet this one somehow stuck.
Michael Jackson//The King Of Pop//at least he had a case, once upon a long ago time.
George Costanza//T-Bone//we all know how that went. He eventually became the way-less-awesome Koko.
Prince//unpronounceable symbol//the Purple One gets a pass because it was mostly a ploy to free himself from a record company's grip (imagine if an athlete changed his name just to get out of his contract)...it became "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" when, really, the dude should've just come up with a new word for how to pronounce the symbol...he eventually went back to Prince
Shaq//The Big Aristotle, The Shaqtus, more//the difference with Shaq is that he recognizes the impermanence of a self-selected nickname and embraces it. He doesn't expect (or want, for that matter) any of the names to stick. It's impressionistic and disposable and he loves it.
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