Extended Version of Seinfeld's Acura Super Bowl Commercial

Not great, but a good spot that will run Super Bowl Sunday.

Jerry Seinfeld is so excited about the new Acura NSX that he will stop at nothing to acquire the very first one

Sneakernews Announces 2011 Sneaker of the Year

The Nike Mag 2011

Yes, right from Back to the Future to your feet.

As Back to the Future II was being written, the producers of the movie approached Nike with a question: What would a shoe look like in 30 years? A Nike design team headlined by Tinker Hatfield came up with the Mag – a super high-top, power-lacing, brightly lit pair of futuristic sneakers that would help Marty hoverboard around the city with ease in the year 2015. Since the release of the movie, the Nike Mag has been immortalized as one of the great icons of film and sneakers, enjoyed only through watching the film. Nike would later use the Nike Mag as the design inspiration for one of its greatest footwear designs in the Nike Hyperdunk, releasing a special edition ‘McFly’ colorway that now demands a pretty penny.

On September 7, 2011 this shoe became a reality.

It is also the 2011 Sneaker of the Year, beating out the shoe that caused riots from coast to coast, the Air Jordan 'Concord'.

Pairs of this limited edition sneaker have been going for millions of dollars in auctions. 

With Michael J. Fox involved in the release of the shoe, some proceeds are going to Parkinson's Disease research.  It's a great looking shoe and it made a lot of headlines in 2011.  All this with a hoverboard not included.  Imagine that.

St. Louis Radio Host Suspended For Twitter Replies

St. Louis radio talkshow host JC Corcoran has reportedly been suspended from KTRS for his tweets Sunday and Monday. In a video on his website today and also on Twitter, Corcoran blamed the Riverfront Times for drumming up attention about his profane tweets directed at his critics.

"It's the usual suspect. The RFT and these little slimes that sort of buzz around," said Corcoran in his "Daily Dose" online.

Earlier this month, KTRS (550 AM) personality JC Corcoran caused a stir in the local sports world when he announced on Twitter that Albert Pujols would announce a new contract with the Cardinals on November 18.

The Cardinals denied the rumor, and November 18 came and went with Pujols remaining a free agent. Now, Corcoran has another prediction.

Yesterday he tweeted that the Cardinals would soon announce a new deal for the slugger that is "significantly less than ten years."

Cardinals fans on Twitter weren't having any of it. They mocked Corcoran online, comparing him to a modern-day version of the "Boy Who Called Wolf."

Though judging from Corcoran's responses on Twitter, and I won't publish them here, but search away and judge for yourself.

Those "Pop Up" Halloween Stores are Popping Up Around Atlanta

The job market is tough, but there is a welcoming sight all across the country and especially here in Atlanta. Halloween stores are opening all over the area and providing the unemployed a job during these trying times. Halloween Thrills is one of the seasonal stores opening in the area providing both jobs for the unemployed and the filling of vacant retail locations.

To date, Halloween Thrills has hired 20 temporary employees in the Atlanta area. "We've received several hundred applications and have only 60 positions to fill for our three locations at Atlantic Station, Roswell, and Kennesaw," said Al Adkisson, who runs a chain of local Halloween Thrills retail stores in the Metro Atlanta Area. “And, it's not just people looking for an extra job. For a lot of people that work for us, it is the job that's holding them over until they can find something permanent," Adkisson said.

With Atlanta's 10.4 percent retail vacancy rate, temporary stores, like Halloween Thrills, have found a niche. They come in, pay rent for a couple months and then disappear until the next Halloween season. While not a permanent tenant, these seasonal stores offer a boost to the economy every year and landlords and management companies are more than willing to lease the space.

If you didn't know, Halloween is huge.  According to the National Retail Federation, it is estimated that Americans will spend $5.8 Billion this year for Halloween. Not only costumes for adults and children, many are also dressing up their pet or decorating for Trick-or-Treat and Halloween parties. The stores are already fully stocked with a huge selection of costumes for both adults and children and have a wide variety of accessories for the customer who likes to design their own

Metro Atlanta Billboard Prompts 911 Calls

An Outback Steakhouse sign on I-85 in Norcross, Ga., touting its wood-fire grilled steaks, is doing it's job and sending people into a tizzy, but for the wrong reason.

Several motorists driving on the Georgia Interstate called 911 to report that the billboard was on fire! It is indeed smoking, but it's not actually on fire. It is just an illusion generated by smoke machines embedded in the sign.

As you can see from the sign, it is smoke that is coming out of the wood pictured on the sign.  I think it's genius.

This brings to mind one time I was in Los Angeles and a movie studio wrapped a building in L.A. to promote a movie, must have been Deep Impact or Armageddon, or a similar movie.  Well, the building wrap made it look like there was a hole in the building.  Motorists on the freeways started calling asking about it and it snarled traffic even more than usual. 

They eventually had to remove the wrap on the building, but it did generate a ton of publicity.