19 responses for this post

1. Dave on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 9:07 am

   I’d always suspected as much….

2. Sandyjoys on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 9:48 am

   That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard this hour.

3. Grey Rainbow on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 9:52 am

   I think it’s a combo of the scarf and the background looking like D.C. That’s just bad wardrobe and location decision making. Oh, and RR is annoying anyway, I much prefer the “They Might Be Giants” DD commercials!

4. mindy on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:12 am

   I can’t believe anyone could focus on the scarf with the amount of makeup RR is wearing in that picture.

5. freakgirl on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:25 am

   Grey Rainbow, is that really TMBG in those commercials? Because I actually think they sound like a completely annoying, less talented, more I-want-to-poke-myself-in-the-eye version of TMBG.

6. Grey Rainbow on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:34 am

   Found on WikiPedia (assuming it’s correct!!!)

   The band contributed fourteen original songs for the 2006 Dunkin’ Donuts ad campaign, “America Runs On Dunkin’”, including “Things I Like To Do”, “Pleather” and “Fritalian”. In the aired advertisement, Flansburgh sings “Fritalian” along with his wife, Robin Goldwasser.

7. Sandyjoys on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:53 am

   TMBG is my all-time favorite band and I’ve had a crush on Linnell forever, and even I think those commercials are annoying!

8. freakgirl on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:14 am

   “Fritalian” regularly enrages the geekboy. “Reluctantly Helping My Friend Move” makes me want to punch a baby.

   I am so incredibly disappointed by this news!

9. Maggie on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:49 am

   Whatever. Those scarves are right now so trendy. They were popular in the late 80s too. Big, woven hippie-looking scarves with patterns and fringe. Only a crazy person is going to see it as terrorist garb!

10. freakgirl on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Only a crazy person is going to see it as terrorist garb!

    Exactly. Michelle Malkin.

11. Marjon on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Ohno, not my hero RR!
    (MM is stoopid)

12. Michael on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    That’s so funny because just the other day I was out for a walk with my daughter, who I adopted from Guatemala with my domestic partner (we hyphenated her last name… Engle-Wood…isn’t that great?), and this lady would not stop staring. I thought it was because I’d just spilled some kefir on my keffiyah, but maybe she thought I was a terrorist!

13. freakgirl on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    That’s quite a world you live in there, sweetie.

    ENGLEWOOD NEW JERSEY REPRESENT!

14. Michael on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Is that a nice place? As nice as that gayborhood you mentioned the other day? Plainfield, was it? Or at least as nice as my daydream world with kefir and keffiyehs and little Paloma?

15. freakgirl on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    I don’t know if I’ve ever been to Englewood. I believe I’ve driven through it from time to time.

    Gayborhood. Heh.

16. Jason on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    I always thought EVOO was some kind of terrorist codeword. Extra Virgin Olive Oil my ass! She’s working for the evil doers.

17. Michael on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    I don’t know if I’ve ever been to Englewood. I believe I’ve driven through it from time to time.

    That’s what he said.

    Or…..

18. Centurian on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Just like freaky designers to steal and put controversal political spin on clothes. I do believe they dressed Rachael in this scarf for the whole shock bonus.. and were more shocked when the public protested.
    Don’t forget Cameron Diaz carrying an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan.

    The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.

19. freakgirl on Sunday, June 01, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Yeah, those “freaky designers” really get a kick out of bloody conflicts.

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