The unaired Superbowl commercial that everybody is talking about.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The ad featured a Spanish-speaking mother and daughter apparently traveling from Mexico to the United States. The end, which shows the pair discovering a door in a giant wall, was reportedly banned from TV since it commented on President Donald Trump’s promised border wall.

A part of the ad was shown which then directed you to Journey84.com which then promptly crashed. (Back up now.)

However attempts to stifle the message of inclusion ultimately failed miserably: 

One after another, on the NRG Stadium field, on the streets of Houston and perhaps most important of all, in ad after ad from the giants of corporate America such as Coke and Anheuser-Busch, a message of inclusion and equality in defiance of Trump emanated from an event that always is much more than a football game. 

The tone was set inside the massive football stadium even before kickoff when three stars of the hit musical Hamilton made a simple but significant addition to the words of America the Beautiful. 

When the original Hamilton cast’s Schuyler Sisters trio of Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones reached the line, “And crown thy good with brotherhood,” they smiled and added, “and sisterhood,” to a roar from the crowd.

At halftime the irrepressible Lady Gaga also let her feelings be known with an amazing performance that not only entertained but also could be its own advertisement for inclusion and acceptance: 

Before plunging toward the field, tethered by wires, she added, “One nation. Under God. Indivisible. With liberty. And justice. For all.” 

A few minutes later, singing Born This Way she added the word “transgender” to the Super Bowl conversation likely for the first time ever: “No matter gay, straight, or bi, Lesbian, transgender life…”

Ultimately Donald Trump's favorite quarter back may have won the game, but the message of the day was anything but Trump approved. 

I would totally watch the hell out of this.

Courtesy of Joe Conason's Facebook page:

This is reportedly from a woman named Mary Davis, who posted it on her Facebook profile: 

"You may have heard that the Trump people are freaking out that the performers for the Inauguration will be limited to Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. You know what would be really smart? If there was a televised "freedom concert" with huge celebrities like: Beyoncé and Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, et al., that aired at the same time as the inauguration. 

"Imagine how mad 'Tiny Fingers' would be. He would totally lose all the ratings. 

"And what if all the proceeds of the concert went to: the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Lambda Legal, NAACP, CAIR, IRAP, SPLC, Environmental Defense Fund, Human Rights Campaign Fund, GLAD. 

"I would add that Alec Baldwin should MC the event playing Trump as he does on SNL."

Sounds like a plan to me.

Look there is NO way I am watching Trump's inauguration, so if there were something this entertaining to watch as an alternative I would be all over it.

And I bet just the idea that it would drive Trump out of his every loving mind would send the ratings through the roof.

Dealing with my Academy Award hangover.

Was not always impressed with NPH last night. But this took guts.

Okay so I watched the Oscars last night with my daughter, which is kind of like watching a Nazi parade with Hitler.

Every time my attention drifted away or I missed a joke she exclaimed "Dad! I thought you were going to watch this with me!"

I was, I was watching it with her.

However where she was on the edge of her seat over each category (Really? Sound mixing?), I was only really interested in the BIG moments such as Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Movie, and most steeply plunging neckline.

Of course unlike her father my daughter made it her mission to watch EVERY single one of the nominated movies. I think she missed like three or four, but she certainly saw all of the biggies.

So when the movies were announced in each category my daughter went through the same process. "Oh that one was so good it should win. But wait I loved that one too. Oh no this one is really the one that should take home the Oscar. Oh they all deserve to win, I can't decide."

And then when the winner was announced my daughter would leap from her chair and yell "Yes! This is the one I wanted to win!"

This happened every time, for every category, no I am not exaggerating.

So for those of you who did not spend your evening listening to bad jokes, fumbled pronunciations, and awkward award presentations, here is a list of the winners.

The top winners were "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Birdman" each with four Oscars. (Birdman also won for Best Picture.)

Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor for "The Theory of Everything," and Julianne Moore won Best Actress for "Still Alice." (This was the only win that was punctuated with the sound of cans ricocheting off of a Wasilla refrigerator.)

As it turned out "American Sniper" only brought home one Oscar for Sound Editing which you know will result in all kinds of Right Wing conspiracy theories.

Now I don't want you to think that I did not find some enjoyable moments, because I really did.

For instance there was Common accepting the award for best original song for the movie "Selma." His speech was quite powerful and incredibly eloquent.

The same could be said for Patricia Arquette's acceptance speech for her Best Supporting Actress role in "Boyhood:" 

"To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," she said. "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America."

That was so good it made Meryl Streep react like this:

Definitely got the Meryl Streep and J-Lo seal of approval.

However just speaking for myself the best, and most unexpected moment, came when this happened.

Okay seriously, who knew Lady Gaga could sing like THAT?

And when Julie Andrews came out afterward I thought my daughter was going to collapse with joy.

So all in all it was a really fun evening, and I really enjoyed spending it with my insanely crazy about movies daughter.

And you know the best part? Well the best part is that they announced the Best Picture early enough so that I was able to quickly turn the channel afterward and watch everything but the first few minutes of "The Walking Dead." (You should have heard my daughter scream when I did that.)

Forget Sarah Palin. The real challenge to President Obama's popularity is Lady Gaga!

From Fox News:

Move aside, John McCain: Lady Gaga is now positioned to be the next big challenger to President Obama. It’s not exactly a race either necessarily chose to enter, but the Facebook pages of the president and the sequined pop phenomenon are deadlocked in a competition to become the first living person to hit the record-busting 10-million fan mark on Facebook.


Wow!  I cannot imagine having 10 million Facebook fans!  That is an unbelievable number of people who are fascinated by these two talented people.

But then who can blame them?  I mean after all one is  the leader of the free world and the other is taking the entertainment industry by storm. (By the way as of this post President Obama has 9,342,840 fans and Lady Gaga is slightly ahead with 9,614,641.)

But this got me thinking.  Lady Gaga and President Obama are the two most popular people on Facebook? But what about Sarah Palin?  After all almost all of Lady Gaga's updates are about concert appearances with a sprinkling of posts about which city she is in and which media event she is doing, and President Obama's page mostly consists of updates about what is going on politically (Boring!), but Sarah Palin spends more time on her Facebook page than an insecure fourteen year old girl!

Palin has probably done more to make Facebook famous than any other celebrity. She  uses it as her main method of communicating to the outside world, and has undoubtedly had more people quote the Facebook rants that her ghostwriter posts than Lady Gaga and Obama combined.  So surely she must be pretty darn close to that ten million mark as well wouldn't you think?

Nope not even close.  As of this posting the supposed "Queen of Facebook" has a comparatively dismal 1,717,781 fans. The most popular Republican in the country has not even broken the 2 million mark.

I don't know about you but learning that made me feel much, much better.  If this is the best hope the Republicans have of defeating President Obama in 2012, than we can all relax.

That is of course unless the GOP somehow recruits Lady Gaga.  Then we are fucked!