I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

PIERRE BERNARD'S RECLINER OF RAGE.

Finally.

Graphic Designer Pierre Bernard Jr. has actually made several appearances on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien since the Writer's Guild of America strike ended in February, but it was all for side stuff, like about the phone message to the NBC caterer that he left about something sharp in the meat pasta, or the time he was one of the Late Night staff members featured in the wet short sketches.

Tonight, we finally got the first official "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage" segment of 2008, so here's my usual transcript.

From I WANT TO EAT...

La Bamba: PIERRE BERNARD'S RECLINER OF RAGE!

Conan O'Brien: Hey there, Pierre, are you comfortable and angry?

Pierre Bernard: Comfortable and furious, Conan.

Conan O'Brien: Then go ahead, Pierre, and speak for America.

Pierre Bernard: Okay, here goes.

Every week in the mail, I receive coupon fliers from local stores telling me what's on sale in my hometown of Mercer County, New Jersey. The only problem is the only fliers I receive are supermarkets like Family Dollar and ShopRite. What I would prefer are fliers for stores like Best Buy or Michaels Art Supplies, since I'm alway buying electronic gadgets, sci-fi DVDs, and multicolored pencils.

Recently, Best Buy had a special-priced 2-disk DVD of the film, I Am Legend, but, by the time I found out about it, it was regular-priced and it had no bonus disk. The residents of neighboring towns knew about that sale in advance from their Best Buy fliers, while I was left in the dark like a fool.

I called a 800 number for the distributor in my area, Red Plum Publishing, to complain, but nothing has changed.

Don't get me wrong, I do sometimes use the supermarket fliers, like when ShopRite had a sale on Hot Pockets and Arm and Hammer Sensitive Skin detergent, or when Acme had a sale on Pop Tarts, the variety pack, 10 boxes for 10 dollars, making them a dollar a box, which was such a good deal I bought 30 boxes.

Bottom line, America.

Red Plum should distribute a wider variety of fliers in my weekly neighborhood supplement, so I could save as much on I Am Legend as I do on Pop Tarts.

Conan O'Brien: Alright, well, thank you, uh. Thank you, Pierre. I'm sure there's at least one or two other people in the world who know exactly how you feel.

Pierre Bernard: Stay strong, my brothers.

La Bamba: PIERRE BERNARD'S RECLINER OF RAGE!

Conan O'Brien: Alright, we'll take a break. When we come back, Oliver Hudson is here. Stick around, everybody.

Kind of a middling effort, at least on the obscurity-meter, but I still appreciate seeing Pierre sit down in his armchair again.

Pierre, I'd still love it if you did complain sometime about Mattel no longer making the 100% Hot Wheels 1/43 scale Ferrari models in the plastic display case anymore, forcing me to buy more expensive Ixo models instead, and how Mattel no longer seems to ship the 1/18 scale Ferrari models to Toys R' Us or Wal-Mart anymore, just speciality model stores where everything is usually at least twice as expensive as what you'd pay at Wal-Mart.

Or about how McDonald's just got rid of the Deli Sandwich selections (at least in Canada), so I can no longer order the Southwest Chicken, the only kind of spicy chicken sandwich they've had since the Cajun Chicken burger around 1999.





I did some more art, went to the 2008 Ottawa-Gatineau Autoshow, and visited Montreal last weekend, but I'll wait until I have more pictures uploaded to Flickr before I write anything here, if I get around to writing anything here.



I am pleased to see that Pincourt Blockbuster is still there, despite the dramatic drop in business they must have endured after I moved to Ontario.



I also walked all of the way to Sainte Anne de Bellevue just to get a few shots of the suspension span of the Galipeault Bridge before it gets torn down and replaced with a boring highway bridge later this year.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 5:25 AM