DowntroddenInDC

02-24-12 Go Texan Day

DowntroddenInDC — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:19:35 +0000

Go Texan Day 2012

Here’s my ‘getup’ for this year’s Go Texan Day 2012. Improved the outfit a bit with a bolo tie and some cowboy boots. Maybe next year, I’ll be able to get some woollies. Working on trying to get some of the photos a co-worker took of a group of us. There were five people, including myself, that dressed up and participated in the photo. The photo was a time lapse, so we jumped in the air as a group and it looks pretty good.

Just need to figure out how to make a looping-gif with the photos.

Go Texan Day!

And here it is:

Rodeo Jump Up!

02-23-12 Tomorrow is Go Texan Day

DowntroddenInDC — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:37:09 +0000

Arguably, tomorrow is one of the fun-est days in Houston all year. It’s the one day, in the whole year, when it’s acceptable to dress up like a cowboy and go to work. No teasing. No taunting. It’s completely normal, one day a year, it’s Go Texan Day! (Now all they need is GO Star Wars Day, or Pajama Day.)

Here’s a picture of me in front of the Texas flag from last year’s Go Texan Day:

Grant - Go Texan Day 2011

Go Texan Day sort of sneaked up on me this year, so I’ll be wearing the same thing again. Still no cowboy boats, can’t get behind spending several hundred dollars on uncomfortable boots I’ll year once a year.

Read more about Go Texan Day at the Houston Rodeo’s official page and leave comments and send photos of you and your co-workers dressed up for Go Texan Day!

02-14-12 Happy Valentine’s Day Liz Lemon!

DowntroddenInDC — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:56:33 +0000

I tease a coworker all the time for being Liz Lemon. You know, eating Lean Cuisine at home alone and choking and having to do a ‘chair heimlich’ so that her 30 cats don’t feast on her body. Light, playful stuff, you know?

It being Valentine’s day, and her having a sense of humor, she brought this in today:

There was another one that said ‘Lasagna for 1′, a Flight of the Conchord’s reference to Jerome being dumped and lonely. Brilliant! Happy Valentine’s day to everyone!

02-10-12 – Those Greeks keep rioting

DowntroddenInDC — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:04 +0000

Those Greeks keep rioting and I saw this picture on Yahoo! news and all I could think was:

Stop! Hammer Time….

02-05-12 Super Bowl Commercials #6

DowntroddenInDC — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:48:04 +0000

With a minute left to go, it looks like this is the NY Giants game to lose. We’ll see, and I hope the Giants keep their lead. Here are the last batch of Super Bowl Commercials (kind of slowed down after half-time);

Fiat ’500 Abath’

Toyota Camry ‘It’s Reinvested’

Samsung ‘Samsunged’

Careerbuilder ‘Business Trip’

02-05-12 Super Bowl Commercials #5

DowntroddenInDC — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:36:21 +0000

E*Trade ‘Fatherhood’

And here are a few of the local (Houston) Super Bowl commercials:

Reliant ‘Ladies Man’

BMW ‘The Close Call’

02-05-12 Superbowl Commercials #4

DowntroddenInDC — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:39:59 +0000

Continuing the Super Bowl commercials and man, seems like there have some really awesome commercials this year. I’m getting behind writing them down and looking them up. I had read on Friday that NBC sold $250 million worth of ads this year, a record. Sure seems like it… 75 minutes into the game we’ve seen about 50 minutes of commercials. And here are some more Super Bowl commercials:

Coca-Cola ‘Catch’

Dorito’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’

Chevy Sonic ‘Stunt Anthem’
Loving Rob Dyrdek as the stunt driver!

Cars.com ‘Confident You’

02-05-12 Superbowl Commercials #3

DowntroddenInDC — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:15:45 +0000

Chevy’s ‘Mayan Calendar 2012′

Bridgestone’s ‘Performance Football’

M&M’s “Just My Shell’

Taxact.com ‘Totally Free’

Budweiser ‘Prohibition’

Volkswagen ‘The Dog Strikes Back’

02-05-12 Superbowl Commercials #2

DowntroddenInDC — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:48:10 +0000

Continued from here.

More Superbowl commercials!

Audi’s “Vampire Party’

By far the best commercial so far just a few minutes into the Super Bowl (great job NBC adding 30 minutes of ‘openers’ into the game). Also, love Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Killing Moon’ playing in the background!

Bud Light ‘Platinum’

Pepsi’s ‘King’s Court’

02-05-12 Superbowl Commercials #1

DowntroddenInDC — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:31:38 +0000

It’s DowntroddeninDC’s second year live-blogging the Super Bowl! I’ll be watching the Giants and Patriots play (hoping for the Giants to win – closest in proximity to my native Maryland and a member of the NFC, which the Super Bowl Indicator says if an NFC team wins there is a strong correlation the DOW will go up!) and grabbing the best commercials and posting them on here.

The first funny commercial (the Will Arnett HuluPlus commercial was just OK);

Sasha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’ Trailer

Hyundai ‘All For One’ (Rocky Theme)

Continue on 02-05-12 Superbowl Commercials #2