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If the viewership of Rocketboom is truly between 250,000 to 350,000 per day then I implore everyone of you to listen to the Terri Gross interview with Iraqi war veteran National Guard Lt. Paul Rieckhoff on NPR radio. The link above will take you there. You’ll get a soldier’s perspective of what’s really going on in Iraq and how Bush, Rumsfeld and Duck-shooter Cheney screwed up royally and waged a war they were ill-prepared for. National Guard Lt. Paul Rieckhoff also wrote a book Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington.
Then I would implore each of you to tell 3 friends to listen to this interview and so on and so on and… you get the picture. Why? Because when you add it all up the freedom of expression of a Rocketboom is at stake when gov’t doesn’t give a damn about telling its own people the truth.
Casual Friday Extraordinary!
Thanks RB!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Happy five May. Is there an English version of the Mexican national anthem?
EEEEEEEEEyayayayayayaHoooo.
This is called
a Grita “EEEEEEEEEyayayayayayaHoooo.” It’s like Mexican yodeling.
Our freedoms are st stake when a otherwise responsible jounalist of the democracy, Amanda, puts grand marnier in a margarita.
fat bellied mexican??? - You’d have to be rillly funny and bring a touch of truth-to-it-all to pull off a piece of racist crap like that, and you wern’t.
W.O., you asked for it. Here is a link to El himno nacional mexicano in English.
Manda,
I’m a big fan of RB. Huge. I’m a white middle-age UES banker, and I think I’ve got a pretty good sense of humor, but I found today’s show offensive. Are we going to have a contest to pick between watermellon and fried chicken next MLK Day? a wacky reading of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion next Yom Kippur? I still love RB and I’ll watch every day, but I just couldn’t not tell you that I thought today’s show crossed the line.
Splenda? Yuck!
What is wrong with this world?
Steve Brudniak
Splenda? Yuck!
What is wrong with this world?
Steve Brudniak
Is the Podzinger poster on the door in back of you considered Ad placement, or are you just really big fans of the service?
Buenos dias
Hate to keep correcting Amanda’s diction/pronunciation (I notice she now usually enuncaites the first A in Amanda - way to go girl!), but we upscale boozers pronounce it Grand Marn-yay!
I think it best left to a cultural group themselves to make fun of themselves (as Mexican people do–watch Sabada Gigante sometime on Univision Saturday night) For an anglo, do the same, make fun of your own group. I say this as a native of Los Angeles with a deep respect for people from Mexico–as our “state” was once part of Mexico. I don’t believe you give a group credit by taking a great holiday and relating it to the drinks you think of when you think of that group.
As an American with Mexican ancestry, I want to thank you for bring us back to the true meaning of “Cinco de Mayo” - FIESTAS. Americans don’t need or want to remember a Mexican battle victory in a war Mexico eventually lost to the French. That’s like Mexicans celebrating an American battle victory in the War of 1812, if we Americans had lost the War of 1812.
No other American day of celebration has less reason to exist. Unless we just see it as an excuse to have a FIESTA. Fiestas for fiesta’s sake - now that’s something I can raise my beer-slpenda-margarita glass for. And it’s the real reason Americans recognize a forgein country’s military victory.
It is curious that Americans celebrate “Cinco de Mayo” and not the “Diez Y Seis De Septembre” (Mexico’s ‘July 4th’). One explanation I got was that “Cinco de Mayo” fits better with school calendars. “Diez y Seis De Septembre” (Sept. 16th) is when schools are just starting and not a good time to party. Spring however is a perfect time to have a fiesta for fiesta sake.
Anyone notice that the tequila level in Amanda’s Patron bottle does not change? Hmmm… I suspect the tequila in Amanda Margarita is a sneaky “well” substitute.
I love your site; it is a must-see for me every day. By the way, cinco is misspelled on the home page. Also Grand Marnier is pronounced Grand MARN-YAY (the final R is silent) :-)
I want to thank everybody at Rocketboom for all the hard work and creativity over the past few weeks. We think the commercials turned out much better than we could have imagined. THANK YOU!!
For those who have followed our “emerging media†efforts for the past six months, you know that EarthLink has been trying to reach out to tech-savvy consumers who utilize blogs, podcasts, satellite TV/radio, video-on-demand, and DVRs. We stumbled a few times out of the gate as we failed to recognize the importance of tailoring the creative to the audience. I think the creative that RB produced on our behalf was better suited for the RB audience than our typical television commercials. You would have missed Amanda’s quirkiness and the creativity of the whole ELNK/RB team.
We’ve been tracking comments about the creative from each day. Thanks for all the feedback (pos and neg). If you want, check out our blog and take a quick (1-2 minute) survey about our campaign on Rocketboom.
http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/05/tell_us_what_you_think_about_t.php
My last shout out is for the team at MediaVest… thanks for bringing this opportunity to our attention and helping on the execution. Keep up the great work!
Hi Amanda,
Today’s offering was instrinsically offensive (”not that there’s anything wrong with that” when it works for you.)
It might be just as fun for you to do a bit on Boxing Day - dress in a loud fox hunting outfit and go shopping for discounts on furs and spend the day rummaging through a certain famous department store’s excess Christmas inventory while nibbling on kippers or something.
And by the way, do you have a favorite Stout?
Your fan,
B
Best Earthlink commercial yet. By far. But Miller Light in a magarita? Wow. That’s nasty.
@earthlink folks. really nice, when does you’re servcice start in europe?
@amanda. i have no clue about what do put or not put in a margarita being a silly european but if you ever visiting europe be sure to try our beers too !
;)
It’s a couple days late, but I wanted to thank those who posted positive feedback for the Series 11 t-shirt designs.
Your support is appreciated!
E
Look like you already got the tip, but I’ll second it. THE BEST MEXICAN BEER: NEGRA MODELO.
It’s got a full body, but very low bitterness and no aftertaste. It’s especially great with Mexican food, which they don’t have much of in NY compared to out here in CA. Another important criteria for a Mexican beer is the ability to soothe jalapeno burn, and Negra Modelo is the best medicine I know for overspicing the tongue.
Love your show, Amanda.
Great show, interesting as usual to say the least. BTW thanks for the link to those “Space Songs”
It’s a good thing I have so much respect for RB, because after today’s episode I might still have some left to come back to it on Monday.
Ironic that your coverage began this week with the Day w/o an Immigrant marches.
You could own the verbal utterance: “Kick-ass.” Much the same way that Paris Hilton owns: “That’s hot.”
Nice way to wrap up imigrant sympathy week with a great stereotype of our south of the border little buddies. Speedy Gonzales has nothing on La Manda.
Anyone ever noticed that the majority of the time, it’s only the PC obsessives that get offended? They get offended on behalf of the people they think are being insulted…but then THOSE people almost always turn out to be okay with whatever the ‘insult’ was? I’m not suggesting that we just go out and fling insults at everyone, but at the same time this whole PC-ness has gotten way out of control. Have respect, but stop the damn babying. They’re adults–they can speak for themselves when they’re offended (and they probably will).
whew! Finally casual Friday. Could you please declare another casual day so we don’t all have to wait a full week to be casual?
mon-o-mon. Was that one completely boring and lame episode. Who put you up to it?
If we expunged every last vestige of potential stereotype from the culture, we wouldn’t have any culture left.
Believe me, as a middle-aged mostly-white guy, I know.
Of course the Mexicans won, the Frenchmen were armed only with baghettes whereas the Mexicans had stinging salsa.
The tales of mere existence is really amazing, but I don’t like te way you see mexicans, not everyone is fat or wearing hat.
To Everyone Who is Whining about the Mexican Stereotype,
You are lame, and probably not even Mexican. Get over it.
Has Rocketboom just jumped over the shark tank.
The whole show was just advertising.
Valo laptop
Podzinger
Patron tequila
Miller lite
Splenda sweetner
Grand mainer
Pacifico beer
Sol
Ticate
Corona lite
Earthlink
Hanging out in
Toronto, Ontario, U.S.A.
Amanda & Co.,
Please, when you do a beer tasting, pour the beer in a glass mug!!! It will change the taste.
If you come to NASA JSC the crew (astronauts) hang out at Boondoggels, and the Flight Controllers hang out at Fort Terry the Universal Joint. Come do an episode here. (;-)>
Yours
Ralph
Amanda and all the great people at RocketBoom,
You forgot Bohemia when you tasted Mexican Beers. This was a serious oversight. I am about to go to a lot of trouble to tell you why, so I do hope you will read the rest of this note.
John Steinbeck published a book in 1954 called “Sweet Thursdayâ€Â. It was a sequel to one of his first books called “Cannery Row†(The movie by the same name mashed the two books together and made up just enough dumb stuff to mess them both up but that is another story…).
In Sweet Thursday (a great book, by the way) the main character, Doc, comes back from World War II to get his life back together again. The story develops and a case ofBohemia beer enters into it. At one point this is what Steinbeck (through his characters says):
When the beer was gone they decided that beer made breakfast redundant. Doc went back for six more bottles, and in a burst of generosity he brought back the Bohemia.
“Now there’s a beer for you,†said Old Jingleballicks. “The Mexicans are a great and noble people. The Pyramid of the Sun and this beer – whole civilizations have produced less.â€Â
I love Steinbeck!
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all at RocketBoom!
Kris Wheaton
for a casual cinco de mayo friday, some people seem to be taking themselves way too seriously.
well, I am Mexican, and it wouldn’t have been so offensive if it had been funny. But the fact that RB went for blatant stereotypes shows how out-of-touch they are with the Mexican-American community. I mean, if they had simply asked any Mexican American, they would have told you that that “Cinco de Mayo” is a fake holiday that no Mexicans that I know of actually care for. Now the 16th of September…
BTW, I still love Rocketboom, I still love Amanda, I still love Rocketboom *and* Amanda!
So, Cinco de Mayo is a fake holiday? Sort of like the made up Mexican version of the made up Kwanza?
I agree with Mr. Kris Wheaton, you forgot Bohemia beer and others: Tecate is a sister beer, so is Carta Blanca, Moctezuma, Superior, Tres Equis and Indio, all of them great and with their own unique characteristics. Then you have Sierra Madre, Potro, Casta, Cruz Blanca, Negra Modelo, Modelo Especial, Great breweries that do export, I’m sure you can find them in Manhattan.
Yes you need a Beer mug to enjoy most of them and No you shouldn’t put them in a Margarita, you should however use, if you like that bubbly feeling, setlzer or mineral water, it will bring out the grassy flavour of the tequila and the fermentation.
You should ALWAYS salt the rim of the glass it is served in and serve with lemon or lime wedges. IF you need it to be sugary, use syrup not grain sugar…trust me on this (you can make your own. just boil water and add lots of white sugar and Voilé)
-Now for the tequilas: Patron’ is just a generic rebrabded distilled alcohol, great tequila barely makes it out of Mexico and Fabulous tequila ou have to go to a specialty retailer( hard to find )
Try Herradura, Centenario, Sauza, Carrizalejo, Tres Generaciones, Siete Leguas or Cabrito for the lower priced brands, and if you have expensive taste, Don Julio, Plata or Cuervo 1800.
Now for the stereotype, well, that’s for another place.
I am from Mexico and I always promote cultural values, including gastronomy and enology ( of which there is much more than the average joe thinks there is ).
Thanks for the very entertaining if not a bit tacky video piece.
( I know it was in good and probably uninformed fun ).
Rocketboom rocks,
Sincerely
Oscar Falcon
*Sigh*, let me add my take on the “stereotyping.” I’m Latino - not Mexican, although my ancestors came from Mexico looooong ago to greet the illegal immigrants of the time … who were almost all white back then … but that’s another story. ….. I wasn’t bothered by Amanda’s performance. It’s the context that counts and anyone who knows anything about Rocketboom knows it was all in good fun. Ya see kids, ‘Mazing ‘Manda *really* doesn’t think all Mexicans are fat with big hats, big mustaches and pink boas. (welllll, I did have this one uncle ….) ….. Yeah, I know! I was fooled too for a sec! Party on, A and A. Happy Seis de Mayo. P.S. I don’t know about that margarita recipe, but as long as it’s alcoholic and tastes fine, it’s all good.
Americans celebrating Cinco de Mayo makes as much sense as Canadians celebrating the Boston Tea Party.
Now where’s that case of Corona?
Interesting, Quicktimes can fork off in different directions with the user interaction, but they can’t be made to jump to another point in the timeline, seeing that the commercial and credits appear twice.
I don’t drink, and seeing Splenda in that gives me another reason not to. bleaugh. =P
Hey Rocketboomers,
I haven’t posted for a while ’cause I noticed I was commenting just to comment, and not really bringing anything to the table, but now I’m a bit miffed. Will you people please stop bitching every time some item with a brand name on it shows up in an episode! Unless you live on an island where you whittle your own furniture, slaughter your own dinner, and brew your own ‘LameLoser Light’ beer your life is filled with product placement. Shall Amanda be recorded in a blank white room, carefully avoiding any mention of anything that might be branded? This is a consumer society, and store-bought products are ubiquitous and unavoidable. Please stop trying to make Rocketboom fit your own personal veiw of what it should be, and just enjoy what they do. And if it really bothers you that much, do your own show and leave this one alone.
Ok, I’m putting my soapbox back in the closet and getting a Dos Eques. :-)
I’m mexican and I loved the video, it’s one of my favorités RB so far, a great choice for casual friday. It’s really not offensive, we all have our clichés. If I had to find something wrong with it it would be the splenda (aarrghh!), but if it is for the sake of Amanda’s looks, then it’s understood, forgiven, and supported.
And about the meaning of 5 de Mayo, well as it was said, the French were defeated at that battle but they later returned and kicked our butts. No wonder it’s not a great celebration in Mexico.
So what’s the real meaning? Amanda was right: Cerveza and Margaritas.
Salud!
Amanda, loved it madly. Still Chuckling. As one of the folks said, the true meaning of America is after all, MONEY. Ye p it is really our national religion, and all ethics, values and morality flow through and around it. So party on!
Milt
My favorite is Sol, even though I’m from Tecate, México where (you guessed it) the Tecate beer is made. The Pacifico beer is very popular in the pacific region of México (from Mazatlan down to Puerto Vallarta) and Corona on southern areas.
XX, Tecate, Sol is used big time in bars right here in Baja, and no offense, but it seems only the “gringos” drink Corona.
Okay, would someone please enlighten me about the ingredients Amanda uses? Being European, I can take a wide shot and guess Splenda will be some kind of artificial sweetener, but what the yeti is that gooey, lightbrownish stuff she pours from a can right after the tequila?
…trainwreck. And yet we all keep tuning in…so keep it up? I guess..?
you always look good in pink Amanda but the moustache and the beer belly don’t really go with the boa
….possibly you could use some of the new found sponshorship gelt to invest in a proper costume designer????
I’m being cute. But I’ll never be as cute as you.
Loved Lev’s show.
Bonne Fete.
Amanda, it’s funny but your depiction of a Mexican is really not that different from your depictions of trailer trash. Maybe you could create a skit wherein you depict a battle between the two, margharita versus sixpack?
WATERY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
It is obvious that PCness is way out of hand…
Maybe, just maybe…. Amanda and gang were poking fun at the point of this “made up” holiday with their hollywood made up sterotypes.
Since Cinco de Mayo is fake, why not the costumes….
Just a thought…
On the other hand, Grand Marnier and Miller Lite??? Have you gone mad????