College Colors Day.

[kz_blogorambling]

My coworker is wearing his Boathouse jacket from Oxford. Or, as I promptly (and accurately) labeled it, his drinking coat. While he does kind of look like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, it is awesome indeed.

ALSO

There is a new ad for the children's hospital. I am a HUGE sucker for these "Michigan Difference" ads.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/28211044?byline=0&portrait=0&color=f9b736=1&autoplay=1

And ALSO (ETA): And I'm sure Nancy is already onto this, since she put me onto it in the first place, but here are the results of a biased vote on B1G college seals. Obviously Michigan won, but the blog is fair about assessing the factors why.

http://hooverstreetrag.blogspot.com/2011/09/seals-of-b1g-results-show.html

Comments

[beagledave.livejournal.com]

I think that I need a drinking coat. And a pipe.

So maybe I also need a smoking jacket?

[delphica.livejournal.com]

Jesus Karen, THAT AD.

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

I know right? I was choked up from the get-go but first lunged for kleenex when they show that adorable girl with Downs. She was just killer cute. The other one that really gets me is the end, when that burly, sweet looking male nurse is holding that sleeping baby with all the monitors stuck on it. Golly. Also, the girl that moves the image over to show her chest and then looks up with a goofy smile. Also, ALL THE REST OF THEM.

It may not be entirely recognizable to people who don't hear The Victors in their dreams regularly, but the music is the school's fight song, done on marimba (I think) and cello.

[delphica.livejournal.com]

Ha, the problem with listing the choking up ones is then it seems like some of them you don't care about. Eh, who cares about that kid, he's got one leg at least, suck it up! And whatever, midgets.

(That was such a great shot, with the legs lined up against the wall where every family has the pictures that show the kid getting bigger, you know?)

I wouldn't have recognized the fight song music out of context, but I got it from the lyrics.

[delphica.livejournal.com]

Also, I would like to share with you that I was using the tissues that came in my university-issued box of Kleenex that sits on my desk, and my Kleenex are white, and then after I pulled out another Kleenex, all the tissues lower down in the box are that beige color that always makes me think of how everyone's living room was beige when I was a little kid, and how all the moms would buy the beige Kleenexes as a "decor accent" or something. Later in high school, when we would make tissue roses to use on the homecoming floats, half of them were always Kleenex beige.

Life, it is full of mysteries.

[gundy.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

[bristlesage.livejournal.com]

Our house, by the way, is divided in re: Purdue. I knee-jerk liked it; Paul knee-jerk hated it.

I actually really like Wisconsin's, but I think Indiana's would be my favorite if, indeed, the words were in the damn book.

[magdalene1.livejournal.com]

That AD! Jesus.