DTW is the best large airport based on customer satisfaction. those of us from detroit might find this surprising, considering the weird tunnel in mcnamara to get to the B and C terminals (i’m at the airport, not a lava lamp, thanks). but JD power and associates says so, and as a former expert on rankings, i know that rankings never lie.

in other news, two of my other most frequently used airports are LAX and PHL, both battling for last place. way to go team!

rihanna: te amo

ne-yo: miss independent

helps explain why i like both.

no time to really think this through, so i’m just going to spit out the stuff i saw as i remember it. my strategy was to avoid films that would see wide release, since i’d be able to see them anyway. instead, i tried to see movies that wouldn’t make it out of the film festival circuit, but were still half-decent. in the end, i saw 2 documentaries and 10 short films.

the fence: never have i shaken my head in disgust so many times than during 30 minute documentary short about the border fence b/w the U.S. and mexico. not only does it offend my ideological sensibilities, but it didn’t work. it keeps no one from trying to cross, but it does make it more dangerous. spending $1 billion on something that doesn’t do anything is infuriating. yesterday i bought a moisturizer for $10 and it doesn’t work. doesn’t moisturize. i was SO MAD. now multiply that by 100,000,000.

climate refugees: this feature-length documentary warns us all about all the people who will be displaced by climate change. watch the F out b/c the dark-skinned and/or slanty eyed people are COMING TO AMERICA b/c their home has been flooded/parched/ravaged by hurricane, etc. imagine inconvenient truth but even more manipulative and with distractingly flashy graphics.

on a related note, lester brown and barbara boxer were at the screening and participated in a Q&A at the end. everyone asks me about which celebrities i saw at sundance. i want to say that i saw lester brown, the leading authority on environmental sustainability, but no one will know what i’m talking about. and they will judge me. instead, i just say i saw jonah hill w/ a hot girl. i’m so ashamed.

tub: consider this insult: “man, you whack off so much in the shower, there are probably babies down in the drain.” then you make a short film about that. this series of events = tub.

logorama: french filmmaker takes hundreds of real logos and animates them in this logo-riffic alternate reality. big boy is an elementary school trouble maker, the aol guys roam the streets, and michelin men are cops. meanwhile, ronald mcdonald is a sociopathic, gun-toting lunatic (think, the joker). anyway, this whole animated ode to marketing and commercialization was a cute commentary on culture … until there was a huge earthquake in the story, and we get to see the ground split apart, buildings fall, and characters get crushed. worst. timing. ever.

not sure if anything else i saw was note worthy, so that’s all i’m writing for now.

BONUS:

this is almost a month late, but i thought i’d do ten words or fewer recaps of the half-dozen movies i saw over winter break. in no particular order…

avatar: imax sold out. saw regular. boo. blue people.
invictus: mandela. rugby. damon wears short shorts.
the blind side: white lady with nice ass saves giant black boy. ravens.
princess and the frog: first black princess turns into frog in first 10 minutes.
up in the air: clooney plays self. naked woman. dad next to me. awkward.
sherlock holmes: lame

rourke looks amazing, but scarlett johansson as an action villain? b/c that worked so well for “the island.”

credit old man bandyk for sending me the trailer.

i’m heavily amused by accenture’s extreme efforts to ditch the tiger brand. they probably should not have staked so much of their marketing on one guy. rookie mistake.

But it takes time to erase the golfer’s identity completely. Accenture spent $50 million on advertising in the United States last year, and Mr. Woods appeared in 83 percent of the company’s ads — far more than for any of his other major sponsors — according to TNS Media Intelligence.
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On Tuesday, that meant telling staff members in an e-mail message to review their sales pitches and slide shows to ensure that they “no longer include Tiger Woods.” In New York, employees were asked to bring posters and other physical assets to the company’s front desk for disposal. The company would not comment on exactly how they would be disposed of.

They may be trying to avoid having the materials recast as collectors’ items. Already, some Accenture magazine ads and memorabilia, including an Accenture Match Play Tiger Woods Caddy Bib, are on eBay (Asking price for the bib: $175.)

i think i have some tiger-branded accenture recruiting brochures. i might just have to hold onto those now.

at the bar, i drank three wine flights and one cheese flight. that’s 9 different kinds of wine. 9 different grapes. all of them were perfectly good

on the life side, the same phenomenon occurs. i went to michigan (so many good majors to choose from!), became a journalist (so many good topics to write about!), went to b-school (unlike med/law, so many options after graduation!), went to wharton (see michigan), and am now possibly considering consulting (see journalist and substitute “topics” and “write about” with “industries” and “work for,” respectively).

this is a problem. some of the people i was with at the airport actually bought full glasses. one guy got a whole bottle. these people make way more money than i do. there is some correlative effect going on here and i want to discover and conquer it.

did i just commit myself to being an investment banker?

did you know?

1. that glitter is SO IN. martha stewart glitter is all sold out.
2. she blogs. her dogs blog. her dogs are in a feud w/ bill oreilly. martha stewart apparently thinks her dogs are real people. wtf. this is from the dogs’ blog …

3. did you know that people wash their sheets once a week? this from an unofficial poll of martha stewart’s twitter followers. i’m no statistician but …

best quotes:

1. “i’m really interesting.”
2. on rachel ray using the “every day” phrase: “whatever”
3. on going on letterman, and being spilled on (or something): “letterman was trying to distract me … not sexually.”
4. “i wrote my book right after prison”
5. how she describes the “mess” from five years ago, aka “when they should have been looking at mr. madoff instead of martha stewart.”

that last quote, i started an auditorium-wide slow clap. holla SEC.

and lastly, martha showed a clip of the “whatever, martha” show, where her daughter and annoying daughter’s friend watch old episodes of the “martha stewart show” and give it the “mystery science theater” treatment. the clip we saw was from a thai yoga episode, but here’s another episode i found. it’s not as funny, but whatev.

it’s worth between 2 and 50 cents. at the bare minimum this penny just doubled in value to me.

ok, boring post over.

Hundreds of adults and children have bundled up in winter garb at Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights, hoping to get vaccinated at the last H1N1 clinic in Macomb County this week.

Despite the numbers, the line has been orderly and has moved efficiently. About 3,000 doses are to be distributed by health workers at 45 stations.