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Wanted - New TV Show Ideas {Blog Maverick}
May 15th 2007 3:02PM Cell (C is written with a 'cent' symbol)
Muhammed is a militant 21 year old from Saudi Arabia. In his country he meets up with an al Qaeda organizer and because of his fast-wit and intelligence he quickly gets short-listed to lead an attack on American soil. Cue a montage of scenes showing how he smuggles weapons and explosives into New York City and holes up to plan an attack.
It's the moment of truth. Muhammed's assignment is to carry out a bus-bombing as it crosses through Times Square. With C4 strapped to his body Muhammed waits patiently for the bus to weave through congested NYC traffic to find its way into Times Square and gets to experience city culture first-hand. When the moment of truth arrives, he stands up, and just as he is about to push the detonator, 8 wacky things happen all at once and convince him that HE LOVES AMERICA.
He aborts the mission. Fast forward 9 months.
We see Muhammed in a red convertible, Armani suit, clean shaven wearing designer sunglasses chatting up his fellow ibankers on a cell phone. A blonde-haired socialite sits in the passenger seat. Fuzzy Mets dice hang from his rearview.
While Muhammed has fully embraced American life and culture, his fellow terror cell members are in denial and believe he has simply gone deep-cover to plan the ultimate attack: wait for the World Trade Center to be rebuilt. He runs with it for fear that they would kill him if they knew, and the tension runs high as he has to work behind the scenes to foil his terror buddy's plans.
Adding to the hilarity are Morty, Muhammed's good natured hasidic Jewish next door neighbor who is completely oblivious to Muhammed's origins and Graham, the WASPy chick-obsessed ibanker who works with Muhammed at major Wall Street bank.
The wacky hijinks of season 1 reach their climax when his ultra-conservative mother comes to visit! And to make matters worse, his blonde white girlfriend won't get off his case about meeting her!
Muhammed: Oh Allah, why have you forsaken me?
iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth? {Engadget}
Jan 11th 2007 10:49AM ``There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.''
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Detroit Auto Show: It's here. GM's plug-in hybrid is the Chevy Volt Concept {Autoblog Green}
Jan 7th 2007 11:16AM Honda and Toyota learned from American car manufacturers and incorporated some of their own innovations (JIT inventory) to build the automotive empires they are today. Honda and Toyota are now roughly ten times larger than GM and Ford in market capitalization.
The student is now the master.
Are the Americans willing to accept their new role and learn from them?
Hybrids set to rule roads of South Park? {Autoblog}
Apr 29th 2006 10:57PM "Leaves much to the imagination, doesn't it? So how is South Park going to spin this one? A tongue-in-cheek, yet moral lesson on the importance of alternative drivetrains to the environment"
Have you ever seen the show? Trey and Matt portray liberals as insufferable idiots. They're going to dismiss Hybrid cars as some kind of elitist fad that gets out of control and puts the world in peril.
Cartman, as the destroyer of hippies, will be key as always.
What Business are theaters in ? {Blog Maverick}
Jan 19th 2006 11:50AM Damn, Mark. Sometimes I think you're just some loudmouthed buffoon who fell backwards into N billion dollars. That Colbert Report interview, that Playboy interview, that blog series on success motivation. None of those helped. But I think what this article proves is that history books just filter out the retarded bullshit that everyone said in their lifetime and only show you the few scraps of brilliance. This might be one of those cases. I think you hit the nail on the head: we have to deal with so much crap to see a fucking movie in a theater and for the longest time no one was doing anything about it. This scheme of yours just might work. Good luck!
Success and Motivation, Part 3 {Blog Maverick}
May 12th 2005 12:04PM Well, everyone loves fairy tales. If Mark's rags to riches story inspires you to do better, then I guess his story is serving some purpose to someone. I just see some bloke who had a modestly successful business who decided to sell tulips at the exact same moment that everyone had a temporary fit of insanity and paid ridiculous amounts of money for tulips. Well, the tulips all died next year (go visit www.broadcast.com and tell me if you'd spend a billion dollars on that), everyone who paid for it feels kind of stupid for doing it, and most people, insttead of seeing the situation for what it is (a fantastic lucky-ass gets lots of money for something worthless), everyone is gobsmitten by his wealth and think he's some kind of VISIONARY! If you really think all of the billionaires out there today weren't just lucky asses, but actually did it by sheer willpower, then why the hell have they all stopped at a billion? Did they run out of positive attitude? Bill Gates is 60x more than Mark Cuban is. Why turn off the motivation now? Do it again and be a TRILLIONAIRE! It's EASY! Here, there's a step by step guide at http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/7054941172873585 that'll show you how to get whatever you wish for!
Success and Motivation, Part 3 {Blog Maverick}
May 19th 2004 9:32AM All of these rags to billionaires cases are statistical noise. There are many people exactly like Mr. Cuban who are not and never will be billionaires. With hard work, focus, intelligence, and common circumstance you can easily become a millionaire. Maybe it'll take you 10 years, maybe it'll take you until retirement (adjusting for inflation of course). Surpass that goal by a thousand times? Sorry, that's pure luck of the draw. America is the land of the opportunity, but whether you will become a billionaire or not is entirely out of your hands. Which is a shame, because Mr. Cuban seems to think that just as he's read other people's stories of fortune and become rich, that by telling his story someone else will become just as rich. For every eccentric billionaire you've read about, there are millions of eccentric average people with the same qualities who remain fiscally unexciting.
