Somebody needs a clue...

          To be filed in the Nobody Listens folder, in the drawer marked Somebody Needs a Clue.

          The announcement was made recently that Ben Affleck will play Batman in an upcoming movie. Maybe he’ll do a great job, maybe not. But the opportunity to rake in millions of dollars’ worth of cross marketing exposure for a well-known American company and an equally big chunk of cash for the movie producers was wasted.

          It is sad to see what American marketing has come to. The industry must be full of nincompoops. Where are these people when they should be thinking of ideas? This was such a natural chance to make a huge splash that another slam dunk of this nature could be decades away.

          Can’t you see it? The producers call a press conference to announce the casting of the feature role. Some suit opens the conference and says, “We’ve cast the role of Batman in our upcoming film and we have brought a special guest to help us reveal the name of the star we have brought to the project. The star is…”

          The speaker pauses dramatically to lift a white duck to the microphone and the duck says, “Aflac.”

 

          Frequent readers know your loyal blogger has been following the career of Canadian Football League legend Anthony Calvillo. Calvillo missed Thursday’s game after suffering a concussion the week before.

          Calvillo’s team, the Montreal Allouettes, fired the head coach before this week’s game because of the lack of offensive production. They did not fire the offensive coordinator.

          Humm.

          Montreal started a rookie quarterback Thursday night and won on a length-of-the-field comeback drive in the final minute.

 

          Sounds like a government survey: Sandusky, Ohio is a very nice city located along the shore of Lake Erie. It is the home of the Cedar Point amusement park and it is not far from the drag strip at Norwalk, Ohio.

          Your loyal blogger has visited Sandusky several times and always enjoyed time spent there.

          Upper Sandusky is a smaller community, but also a very nice place. Your loyal blogger has enjoyed several fine meals at restaurants in that town. It is located roughly 50 miles south and west of Sandusky.

That’s right. UPPER Sandusky is south of Sandusky.

          Don’t ask. I just read the map.

 

          And I thank you for reading the blog.