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Apparently Campbell's is joining Starbucks as "that's so yesterday". Kohl's department stores' new ad featuring a same-sex couple onscreen for a couple seconds has all the poutragers flooding their Facebook page now.

I was just looking at RU Rockford's Facebook page. One of the items they posted a couple months ago is about a recently deceased fellow who was once "one of Rockford's biggest drug dealers" and was reformed through them. I just asked a close relative of said fellow (who is also one of my closest friends) if that was true. He said he knew his relative was a user but there was never a mention of him dealing. In fact, the scumbags he considered his "friends" would only be around when his SS and disability checks arrived so they could sponge off him until the money ran out. Then they'd all vanish for the next few weeks until more checks came. Lather, rinse, repeat. Rockford's got a serious drug problem and I would imagine their biggest dealers are flush with money 24/7. Not real surprised that RU would embellish a story like that to make themselves look "good".

Reminds me of a story from my youth. I worked at the movie theater in our local mall when I was a teen. The film schedule was such that we'd be busy for an hour or so in between showings and then once all four movies were going, we had a lot of idle time. This was 1989 so hair metal was the popular music then and a couple of the guys I worked with played guitar. We read guitar magazines between rushes a lot of the time. There was a guy we worked with named Mike who was really good looking and popular but dumb as a rock. He was looking at one of the magazines and there was an Ibanez guitar ad with Mr. Big's guitarist Paul Gilbert sitting at a table eating a bowl of guitar-shaped cereal with the caption "CEREAL KILLER". Mike studied the ad for a while and then out of the blue goes, "I don't get it - who would wanna kill cereal...?" Yeah.

That Campbell's soup commercial with the two men doing bad Darth Vader imitations while they feed their kid soup is causing much ado on a couple of their Facebook pages. Made some entertaining reading during my downtime at work this morning... whooboy.

My home wifi is named The Office-appropriate "That's What She SSID".

They all look like miniatures of Winston Churchill to me.

I enjoy that they used a recent recording of the song for the ad vs. having Joey Tempest just lip sync to the now-30-year-old original.

Thanks! I've been lurking for a while, indeed. Magazine-wise, my wife and I are pretty voracious readers. Most of my subscriptions I get for free via internet - freebizmag.com, rewardsurvey.com, etc. Just thinking off the top of my head, we currently get: Car and Driver, Autoweek, F1 Racing, Maxim, Playboy, Esquire, GQ, Guitar Player, Rolling Stone, Wine Spectator, Saveur, Taste of Home, Cooking Light, Travel + Leisure, Watch!, Glamour, Self, Woman's Day, Better Homes & Gardens, Kraft Food & Family, and Reader's Digest. There might be a couple more that I'm missing, but yeah - we keep the postman plenty busy.

Thanks to free internet subscriptions that "stack", I'm currently getting Maxim until 2029. In the past year or so, they've definitely tried to go "upscale" and be less of a "cheeky lad mag" and more along the lines of Esquire/GQ/etc. Playboy's current editor is Jimmy Jellinek who came from.. wait for it.. Maxim,

I saw a North Love/RU van on the way to work today, but sadly neither of the two guys inside looked familiar. Would have tried to get a snapshot otherwise...

And before the advent of the can koozie, going on field trips with a sack lunch and a can of soda wrapped in tin foil.

About 75 miles.

Actually, the RU men's home is about as far across town from the Chik-Fil-A as you can get. it's out on the northwest end of town where the women's home is the one on the southeast side. There's not much near the men's home except a whole lot of bad neighborhoods.

Not sure if this is just a coincidence, or if you were aware, but Ginger Lynn is also a native of Rockford, IL.

We have several. It might be a run-down post-industrial city, but there is plenty of good eatin' here.

I used to know a gal who graduated from North Love. She and her twin sister were 25% of their graduating class of 8 people. Shortly thereafter, their dad ran off with a woman he met at Bible study.

Ugh. Why did they have to send him here? Isn't there some program down closer to his Bible Belt roots that they could have pawned him off on?

Actually, they've put out a couple of albums in recent years - Lightning Strikes Twice and Peace Out. I think both are quite good. If you enjoyed the early stuff, you may enjoy these, too.