Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Sunday, June 24, 2007, 08:23 PM
The “That’s Just Not Right” award for advertising goes to Red Lobster, for shilling during Saturday’s three-hour broadcast of “Finding Nemo” on “The Wonderful World of Disney.” I half-expected to see Dory, slathered in butter, lying on her grilled side, next to the scampi.
Incidentally, how do you stretch out a short movie like “Nemo” to three hours? Tons of extended commercials, including a DVD’s worth of behind-the-scenes extras from “Ratatouille,” Apolo Anton Ohno-hosted segments about Broadway shows and theme park rides, and a 9-minute preview of Pixar’s upcoming foodie film… which looks a lot better than “Cars.” Nothing against Owen Wilson, but I’m much more interested in hearing Patton Oswalt as a rat for two hours than Wilson as a stock car.
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