As you probably know or have already heard, the Super Bowl was a snooze-fest for pretty much the whole game. Even the ads were pretty underwhelming, although the shots of Arnold Schwarzenegger pretending that he is still a high-powered Hollywood star were priceless. As was the pregame show, during which Santana trotted out every marginal musical act of the last year to accompany him in a song that contained the lyrics "Santana! Santana! Santana! Santana!..."

It seemed that ABC had quite a bit of trouble selling their ad time, since a great many commercials were for upcoming ABC shows (Alias comes to mind, which based on the ads is about a half-naked woman who gets tortured). Two of the more disturbing ones were for a show called something like Help! I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! (which I assume uses the word "celebrity" in the same way that Celebrity Mole does) and Are You Hot? (another show where we give shameless face time to undeserving idiots).

Speaking of celebrities making odd career choices, why is it that every time there is one of those Where are they Now? Child Stars of the '80's shows there is about a 50-50 ratio of successful people who went on to lead meaningful lives outside of showbusiness to washed-up actors and actresses begging for a job. In one I saw the other day one guy literally told the camera that he was "actively looking for work" and that he would "pretty much play any part that is offered to me". He repeated this over and over, hoping that somewhere, some studio exec would flip through the channels thinking "now if only I could find someone to play the villain in the next Spiderman movie...like that kid who played Fred Savage's neighbor on the Wonder Years..."