Media Still Reporting On Vince Papale

Fear not, soldiers getting ready to head off to war! Some lawyer and some Jefferson Hospital spokesman are serving you dinner! For some reason, KYW 1060 pairs this like a Wunza movie (e.g. “One’s a cop. One’s a crook. When they get together, hilarity ensues!”):

He’s the president of the Camden County Bar: “When we are at war, whether we like the war or not, we support our troops.”

He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the movie Invincible: “Whether you believe in what we’re doing overseas is right or wrong, you have to believe in these men and women because they’re laying it on the line for us.”

For our soldiers already overseas, we’re doing something even nicer: Sending them Nintendo Wiis. Don’t send them Manhunt 2, though; we don’t want to turn our soldiers into killers.

Ex-Eagle and Local Lawyer to Serve Holiday Dinner to Troops [KYW 1060]
Wii bit of fun for troops [Courier Times]

Study: Nintendo Wii More Popular Than Darfur

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Bob Casey Takes Strong Anti-Wii Stance

The Daily News‘ Gar Joseph today asks all the local politicians if they’re going to purchase an iPhone. It seems that even the city’s rich guys aren’t going to throw away $600 and $50 a month to be a beta tester for Apple. (Republican mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger did recently purchase a blackberry because “Mayor Street told [him] to.” Hee hee!)

But Bob Casey’s spokesman’s response is strangest of all:

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Casey has a BlackBerry, but no plans for an iPhone. Spokesman Larry Smar calls Casey “technological in a business sense,” adding, “I don’t expect him to buy a Nintendo Wii or anything like that.”

Bobby, are you kidding me? You gotta try Wario Ware. I don’t know if I can be confident in a politician who doesn’t want to use a his controller to shoot zombies and strangle gangsters, as well as defeat Gannon once again. Don’t forget, Casey’s home state does include Princess Zelda’s hometown, the mythical land of Hyrule.

Clout | Hot off the wire: The iMayor dials alone [Daily News]

Can The Wii Workout Reality Show Be Far Behind?

Mickey DeLorenzo, the man who lost weight by playing Wii Sports every day for six weeks, has turned his clever little blog post into a full-fledged media onslaught. He’s been interviewed by the BBC, NBC 10, the Inky, the India Times and, least importantly, me.

And now he has a book deal. He has a book deal from a company that one represented Kafka and Sartre.

I’m assuming the book will be titled Can You Believe I Got A Freaking Book Deal Out Of This? The Wii Sports Diet, but that’s just conjecture.

This is awesome. Sometimes things happen that just make you realize what a fantastic, ridiculous world we live in, and this is one of them. Lovely.

Wii Sports Experiment, from Digg to book deal [WiiNintendo.net]
Jan. 19: How I Learned To Stop Running And Just Play Wii Sports

How I Learned To Stop Running And Just Play Wii Sports

The other day, I posted about Mickey DeLorenzo, a Philadelphian and Nintendo Wii owner who spend six weeks attempting to get in shape with the new console. The Wii is Nintendo’s new console that comes with a motion-sensing remote and has the super-addictive Wii Sports, a game that essentially lets you mimic the motions of bowling, tennis, etc.

DeLorenzo not only lost nine pounds in his six weeks, but cut his body fat and made a great shot-by-shot parody of the Rocky video, only holding his Wii remote and nunchuk accessory while doing the run and splicing in some shots of Wii Boxing.

I chatted with DeLorenzo yesterday about the Nintendo Wii, exercise and his 15 minutes of fame.

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