sponge bob no way

Do you know what’s disgusting? That BK commercial where the dude goes “Sponge Bob No Pants!” How gross is it that I have to think about both chicken fries (not worth the hype) and that dude’s penis? (I will not make that joke.)

Fast food commericials now either appeal to 9 year-olds or to people who only eat fast food ironically. There’s a DQ commercial, it was on during the basketball game last night, that has a middle aged man in a room with wood paneling (read, red state poor) torturing teen boys with a Blizzard. Whatevs, you say, until you realize that someone who went to college and most likely lives in a city without a Dairy Queen wrote it. NOT COOL MAN! I love DQ unironically, but what kind of smug disaffected person laughs at reenactments of sex abuse for a class-signified frozen dessert?

My favorite tv suprise of late? The Houston Planning Commission on public access. Although this city ’s interpretation of “planning” is really liberal, for an hour you can watch elderly 5th ward residents making everyone feel terrrible, commission board members making bad jokes, squeaky wheel gentrifiers doing repeat face offs with respected neighborhood ladies, and everyone rolling their eyes at the stream of middle-aged white people complaining about “lights and noise”.

Also, and how awesome is Gwen Ifill?