Despite my studious efforts in watching the game and the commercials, I missed the halftime show. I saw Janet rise up out of the floor of the stage, and I remember thinking that her face & nose looked a lot like Michael’s and then I flipped the channel as I would much rather have hot pokers in my eyes than watch Janet and Justin.
I flipped back in time to catch the streaker and the beginning of the second half.
As I understand it, Janet was wearing a pastie. Maybe since I’m a guy I can’t understand this, but why would you wear a pastie under your clothes if you didn’t intend to expose yourself at some point? Or perhaps it wasn’t a pastie. Everybody (but Michael) knows how much plastic surgery Michael has had, and with the striking similarity between Janet & Michaels faces, I isn’t too far of a stretch of the imagination to think that Janet has had some surgery too – perhaps she had some permanent pastie thing done to herself. Or maybe it wasn’t really Janet at all. Maybe it was Michael revealing even more surgery...
At any rate, it was very obviously a planned publicity stunt. And it worked. Except I don’t quite understand how this is supposed to motivate me to run out and buy the latest Janet Jackson cd...
UPDATE: Here it is. Can you say wierd? And not very attractive, either... (NOT work safe)
UPDATE TWO: It was planned!
Posted by Clancy at February 2, 2004 8:35 AMI miss so much living over here. All I have to say is this: thank God for some new invention called Tivo. My mom got the whole game-commercials, pasties, and streakers included-and it will be in the mail to me today.
I will be fast-fowarding through the football game. Everyone knows the Super Bowl is about the commercials.
Posted by: Helen at February 2, 2004 10:39 AMHelen - they never showed the streaker. But if you watch closely - just as they are getting ready to kick the ball off, you see something white hit the field in the vicinity of the football. Apparently, that was the streaker’s outerwear. The commentators make some jokes about it later, but I haven't seen any news stories on it yet. Opps, here's one.
Posted by: Clancy at February 2, 2004 11:01 AMThe Streaker's outerwear? Ha! That's pretty funny, but like I care about that-I want the money shots, man!
Seems weird that a streaker could still get by with that kind of thing. I mean, I imagine that security is pretty tight at these events these days...
Posted by: Helen at February 2, 2004 12:47 PM