Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Larry “Bud” Melman has died at the age of 85. It really, sincerely does make me sad to see him go.

He was the spokesman for Toast on a Stick (prisoner-tested, no nutritional value). He brought Zachary Taylor’s last moments in front of a bowl of cherries to life for our historical edification. He offered strangers a hot towel. And he wore a Greek fisherman’s hat because it made him look good - damn good.

I was lucky enough to see a Letterman show in person which he was a part of. He was dressed as Batman, and said, “I’ve got your boy wonder right here in my pants.”

Thanks for the laughs, Larry.

The creator of the anti-Hillary pro-Obama Apple 1984 ad has been revealed.

Philip de Vellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, acknowledged that he was the creator of the video…

Here’s the amusing part.

De Vellis said he used footage of an updated Apple ad that portrayed the female athlete wearing an iPod. He said he used standard Apple equipment to modify the video and edit Clinton’s image into the clip.
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“Frankly, given what it looks like, we don’t have the technical capacity to create something like this,” he said. “It’s pretty extraordinary.”

Wow.