I Love This Skit

This is one of my favorite SNL commercials. Just something about the conversation:

Why I Love Austin

Currently sitting in the Austin Airport ready to fly back to Chicago. Of all the client locations I visit, Austin Texas is my favorite by far.

Ten Reason's Why I Love Austin

1. Easy Access to Cheap Alcohol - Jamie Foxx was talking about Austin when he wrote "Blame it On The". More about this later
2. Abundance of Food Options - high end, low end, pizza on 6th street, tapas in the warehouse district. You just can't go wrong
3. High heals - Its like they are taught a a young age to rock the heals and rock them all day. I LOVE IT!!! Its like there are no women here shorter than 5'8" because of those lovely heals. :)
4. Approachable City - get a hotel and walk where you want to go down town. If you have to take a cab...be ready to fork over all $3 of the ride cost. (that's with a generous tip)
5. Makeup Every Day - What I'm trying to say is these girls are inspired by Barbie. They really put the make up to good use.
6. They Love Their Drink - I would be curious about the rate of alcoholism here because everyone is so crazy cool about their drink. I was in a client meeting yesterday and one of my clients offered this suggestion "Go over to Sam's (I forgot the bar's name) and make sure you get Ed ( forgot the bartenders name) to serve you. He makes-em strong and usually will charge you $5 bucks for 3 drinks." I just have three words to say about that..."Good Bless Ed"
7. Music is Everywhere - All kinds, All day, Everyday. I flew in on Monday, walked to dinner and passed 8 live acts in a 3 block radius. It was Monday night!!!!
8. Crazy Swagger - People are friendly but fearless. Its hilarious but also inspiring...you'll see the weirdest guy pull the hottest girl because he just has that swag to him.
9. Blue Jeans - Texas women where blue jeans the way they are meant to be worn. Enough said...
10. Easy Breezy - Life is good...no worries

What Did He Expect

Recently Michael Steele, Chairman of the RNC and the first African American in the role, took on Rush Limbaugh. To put it simply, he got his lunch ate. Below is an excerpt to a MSNBC post. 

*** Steele’s rocky start: Steele’s apology yesterday was the second time he has said something during his month-old chairmanship that he has had to backtrack from. Earlier, in a FOX interview, Steele suggested that the three Senate Republicans who voted for the stimulus -- Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter -- would face primary challenges, and left open the possibility that those three might not receive funds from the RNC. But the committee reversed course, telling First Read: "The RNC has no intention of getting involved in primaries. We work with state parties to elect Republicans and will continue to do that." These reversals come as Steele has raised eyebrows with his language (examples: “off the hook,” saying he wanted to give Bobby Jindal some “slum love”). To put it charitably, Steele has gotten off to a rocky start as RNC chair (as Rush himself said) -- primarily due to a lack of message discipline. And some Republicans might agree with this statement from Limbaugh yesterday: "It's time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of trying to be some talking head media star, which you're having a tough time pulling off." 

Hmmm...as Bobby Jindal and Mr. Steele are now realizing, being a person of color who is semi articulate is not the response the Republicans need to fight Barack. In fact, its only reinforcing his strong character and intellect.