2011年10月31日星期一

Amar'e Stoudemire Applies For A Job At Foot Locker During The NBA Lockout

Oh, man. You just knew this was coming, didn't you? Although the NBA lockout is threatening to cancel the first half of the NBA season, there are a handful of pro basketball superstars who are still rolling out their signature sneakers this fall. It's business as usual for guys like Derrick Rose, who just dropped his new Adidas signature sneaker, adiZero Rose 2, LeBron James, who is stepping out in the Nike LeBron 9 these days, and Carmelo Anthony, who is moving forward with his new Jordan Melo 8. Amar'e Stoudemire has gotten a little bit lost in the sauce with his Nike Air Max Sweep Thru, but he's got a new gimmicky video that might just do the trick and get folks excited about his sneaker.

In the clip, the New York Knicks center applies for a job at Foot Locker and goes through the interview process. He explains why he would be a great Foot Locker employee, shows how he would sell a sneaker, and eventually gets the opportunity to…well, you'll just have to watch and see, won't you?

How are they supposed to sell their sneakers to all of the kids out there when they can't wear them on the court and show them off every night? Well, if this is any indication, they're going to have to get there and promote them and, more importantly, find creative ways to make the public aware of the fact that they've dropped a new sneaker recently. Viral videos are a good way to go to get that done.

We're not sure if Stoudemire nailed his attempt here. But, if nothing else, it's just that: An attempt. With all of the free time Stoudemire and his fellow NBA stars have, they'll have to continue making attempts like it to make the general public aware of their sneakers if they have any chance of selling out Foot Lockers all across the country. Otherwise, they might really be applying for $8/hour jobs to help their income keep rolling in during the lockout.

Okay, okay. Maybe it won't ever get that bad. But, unlike past years, it's definitely going to be a challenge selling basketball sneakers without any actual basketball on TV. Good luck, fellas. It looks like you might need it.

2011年10月27日星期四

The party spirit is in trouble

The annual political party conference season in Britain, drawn to a conclusion in 2011 by the SNP in Perth, has always been a trade-off between public participation and public relations.

These days, the number of actual decisions taken by activists and representatives is minimal, while the amount of time spent on smooth-talking via television, radio, webcasting and blogging has risen exponentially – particularly as far as the ‘big three' Westminster parties are concerned.

(The Greens and Plaid Cymru are mostly ignored by the major media commentators. But this year the SNP have been impossible to sideline, as they are in government in Scotland, and are leading the charge over a referendum on Scottish independence or ‘devo max'.)

The real aim of these yearly jamborees, one ‘big three' organiser suggested in an unguarded, metaphorically mixed moment, is to “keep the troops' chins up” while “not letting too many cats out of the bag”.

So bad vibes and dodgy felines are a definite no-no. But unfortunately that advice appeared not quite to have reached home secretary Theresa May as she strode to the podium at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

“I'm not making this up,” she declared, while suggesting that an illegal Bolivian immigrant had been allowed to stay in Britain, aided by the Human Rights Act, because he had a cat. It turned out that he was an overstayer, not an illegal entrant, and that the moggy – though given a walk-on part by the judge in a jocular aside – was hardly decisive. But the tale still went down well with the party faithful because it reinforced what they wanted to believe.

Far from being upbraided for her creativity with la verité, it was Mrs May's critic, justice secretary Ken Clarke, who found himself chided for not unreasonably suggesting that this attempt to rubbish legal process was unhelpful and artless.

Then again, we should not forget that it is that nice Mr Clarke who has overseen massive cuts and wholesale restrictions to civil legal aid, following the precedent set by the previous Labour government. These changes will very severely inhibit both the quantity and quality of justice available to poor and vulnerable people in England and Wales.

Sadly, this has not hit the headlines with anything like the force of the home secretary's caricatured cat – illustrating the way in which the major party conference circuses have mostly become purveyors of smoke signals via the media, rather than bread and roses for the people.

What is to be done? Some have suggested abandoning these annual charades, others their radical resculpting. “Party conferences as we know them are completely broken and unless reform is kicked into gear straight away they are in serious risk of abolition,” declares elections expert Gareth Knight.

Few are confident that party managers are really willing to let democracy flourish again in their theatres of power. But the expansion of ‘grassroots zones' on the fringes indicates paths by which ordinary members might attempt to wrest some control from the apparatchiks.

The problem, as Knight points out, is that the success of the fringe in grabbing attention depends upon the health of the core around which they are organised. So maybe breakaway movements will be needed. Or even attention to the inventive chaos of the Greens, whose leader Caroline Lucas made perhaps the most politically substantial speech of conference season – to an audience touchingly unmanicured for television.

Certainly the Occupy protests, environmental movements and civic revolutions across the globe are suggesting that there is a whole world of politics available outwith the narrow party perspectives that still dominate the electoral machinery of Western democracies.

Party posturing is looking increasingly irrelevant. A spirit of change coming from a very different direction is in the air.

2011年10月26日星期三

Piece of Mind - A tribute to 25 years

Today, I turn 25 years old. (Oh.. thank you. You are too kind. Stop, please...)

As a tribute to myself and the changing world, this week I like to provide an overview of some of the ways our world has changed in the past quarter century.

1. The StairMaster: Every day fools like you and me no longer have to just pine after the bodies of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger (specifically, his body in Pumping Iron). We can have our own hot bod by doing Real Work with Real Results, thanks to the StairMaster 4000 PT introduced in Nashville, TN in 1986.

2. Purell Hand Sanitizer: Sure we were scared of germs before, but one of the lesser known facts is that the market took off after 9/11 during national fears of avian flu. Thanks Gojo in Akron, Ohio.

3. Drivers License: I learned to drive a car in 2002. During Drivers Ed, we drove all around town looking for two cars that were close enough together to practice parallel parking. Finally, Mr. Bauman gave up and had us bretend there were two cars. Wisdom since then: why didn't we just use cones??

4. Disposable Contacts: (which I am wearing right now as I write this...) This slick, invisible invention hit the US in 1995. Since I was behind the times until last year, I still have fond memories of Jr. High basketball games and yelling stop, No one move! when either my glasses or rigid-gas-permeable contacts (what eye doctors would now call the dinosaurs of contact lenses) flew off my face or out of my eyes. This typically ended in 10 awkward girls shuffling on their hands and knees across the floor, parents returning from the bathroom and wondering what the heck was going on, and one bored referee, just thankful he was getting paid.

5. High-Tech Footwear: White canvas Keds, youare a thing of the past. In 1985, Nike launched Air Jordans, followed by Reeboks The Pump. We have been stylin ever since. I proud to say that I too owned Nike Womens Air Swoopes, in honor of WMBA star Sheryl Swoopes.

6. Writing: Okay, obviously not invented after 1986. However, I learned to love writing in my 6th grade Science Class. If you have enjoyed any of my columns, you can thank Mrs. Stone.

7. PowerPoint: Can't remember the first time you had to sit through a boring text-filled slide show... well, now you know. PowerPoint was invented by Forethought and released in 1987. Windows unveiled its version in 1990 and changed the game of public speaking. Sidenote: You can buy books on how to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation More Interesting. I only know this because an ex-boyfriend checked one out from the library and would read it in the evenings. Thats what is known as a real breaker.

8. Lettuce in a bag: Fresh Express out of Salinas, CA introduced a high tech plastic bag in 1989 to keep our iceberg lettuces super-fresh. That was only the beginning of bagged/pre-packaged/individualized food. My personal favorite is suction wrapped cucumbers. On my more pessimistic days, I associate them with the american Dream.

9. iPods: You know the story.

10. Birth: I was born, thanks to some chilly night of passion and procreation in early 1986.

So, as you eat bagged lettuce with your sterilized hands and pump your muscles hard on the StairMaster, be thankful for all the things known and unknown that make this world a little better, or at least amusing to live in.

Now, wheres my cake.

2011年10月25日星期二

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2011年10月20日星期四

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