Second-half Super Bowl wrapup: the ads were much less interesting, I thought. Barely rose above the "meh" level. The Coke ad with the Macy's balloons fighting for a Coke balloon was really impressively well done but didn't grab me at all. I did get a laugh from the sight of Jim Carville and Bill Frist riding Segways around DC. But even an ice cold cola beverage cannot make me forget that Carville is an asshole and Frist is pure evil. Also there was a creepy talking baby in the E-Trade ads, and that's never good. Plus an offensive ethnic stereotype-fest for Bud Light, those horrible "Engrish"-speaking panda cartoons for whatever-the-fuck company they were shilling. Oh, and Adam Sandler's doing some kind of Borat rip-off for his next movie. Speaking of movies, hey... Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man. That's decent casting, I think. Tony Stark always seemed like the brooding, depressed, heavy-drinking sort of billionaire arms dealer/industrialist.

Hey, how 'bout them Gints?

Downside of the Patriots losing, tho, is that now we'll have to spend another damn year listening to the '72 Dolphins completely failing to shut the fuck up anytime anyone wins more the 5 games in a row.