Friday Five Break!

We break from Mongolia (don't worry, four more travel entries next week) for pressing issues in the world.

1. Shut Up About Cursing Hasbro! Listen, I love Scrabulous, too. I wish it could have lasted forever, but shut up about cursing Hasbro to the high heavens for shutting it down. I'm pretty sure it's not because the makers of America's favorite board game personally hate Scrabulous. In fact, I'm pretty sure they loved it because as a marketer I can almost assure you that they sold a lot more Scrabble boards since Srabulous launched than before. HOWEVER, I'm also pretty sure (and I have lawyer friends who will correct me if I'm off base) that it's about precedent here. What happens if Hasbro says, "Sure, we own the rights to the Scrabble game concept, but if these two guys want to co-opt it, build a web ap and make some money (even though in this case they didn't make much money), why not?" Well, what happens is that then people start stealing all of Hasbro's intellectual property and making money off it, and most likely eventually that escalates and begins to impact Hasbro negatively. And when that does, what does Hasbro have to stand on? Not much because they let it go untouched the first time.

Sure, we'd all like it better if Hasbro had just bought Scrabulous from the nice developers who made it and maintained it while it became huge, but that would be like Hasbro putting up a huge sign that said, "Please! Steal our intellectual property and then blackmail us!"

I'd like it if everything in the world were free, too, people. But it's not.

Then again, maybe Hasbro's just a bunch of assholes. Who knows.

2. Ladies Love Cool James: No, Ferris, not you. Have you heard the new L.L. Cool J song? That may seriously be the best thing to happen to me this year. Period. That man is a poet. Here are some lyrics.

A pulp main fiction, it's an addiction
To see your booty clap on the floor in the kitchen

or...

I'm really not sure if her breasts are fake
Put sum whip cream on em, they taste just like cake

or ...

We finish the 6-pac, she push the seat back
Pulled up her dress n she let me peep that

Oh my GOD. Who knew he still had it in him?

3. Unemployment Rocks: Okay, it's not really unemployment. I'm working a lot of angles people. That even sounded retarded when I said it. I'm also smoking and hanging out in coffee shops a lot so, you know, par for the course for when I'm not working. But whhhhyyy can't I do this forever? Whhyyy? Okay, Luca, by the way, you win. Remember when I was all like, "I HAVE to work. I'll die of boredom otherwise?" And you told me I was crazy. Well, you were right. I had no idea this would be so delightful.

4. A Haiku: I'm going to get into the story about my purse, the rental car, and my stomach virus later. However, for now, I will simply tease with a haiku.

Never lose your purse
Unless you have a copy
of your birth record

5. Boys make me crazy. Or maybe it's the reverse. Who knows.