BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

There is truth in advertising


Years ago there was this t-shirt called Le Tigre and it had some cool commercials where girls went after guys wearing Le Tigre shirts to this crazy jingle of "Hold that Tiger. Hold that Tiger."

As a kid, I remember thinking, "That can't be true." When my folks bought me a shirt one day, I told my classmates, let's test this is it works. So we went to Maryknoll after class and nothing happened. We had quite a laugh. So I guess the man doesn't make the clothes now does it? Bwahahaha. 

But was I ever wrong. Tiger Woods... hold that Tiger, baby! Ten babes. Oh-lala. But Tiger is the man. Not me. Bwahaha. 

Seriously though, as much as Woods is wrong and way out of line, the media and the corporations that once adored him have kicked the chair right from under him. Maybe it would have helped had he not maintained his silence. Whatever it is -- paying hush money, planning on his PR move on Oprah and other late night shows, or waiting to see who else will come out -- it has been devastating for him. 

Lesson for other big time athletes and entertainers right here. 

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