Lehman Brothers likes to say it is “building vision.” We decided to give them a hand and design an advertising campaign for them.

Earlier: “Citi Never Sleeps” ad campaign.

When we learned this morning that Citi CEO Vikram Pandit had announced at 5:03 this morning that the financial giant was adopting “Citi Never Sleeps” as its new company motto, we immediately began anticipating the new advertising campaign that Citi will doubtlessly unveil.

And then we decided we couldn’t wait for Citi. Pandit’s got a lot on his mind, and the bank is strapped for capital. Why not devise an advertisement for the bank? You know, just to help out. Of course, we may understand the concept of eternal insomnia slightly different from Citi, which imagines that ‘Citi Never Sleeps’ conveys the image of a bank with “boundless energy to serve customers.”

Our Citi ad after the jump.

For those of you already bored with watching JP Morgan’s Fed chief Ben Bernanke talk to Congressmen, we thought we’d present a little entertainment. Thanks to the boys at OptionMonster, we have a mash-up of Bohemian Rhapsody and recent crises on Wall Street. It’s the Bohemian Financial Rhapsody. After the jump, we bring the glory.

This terrible video just about proves that business school makes comedy impossible.

Buy low, sell high, of course. Sadly, this “Schoolhouse Rock” lesson comes too late for owners of Bear Stearns. (via Mises.org)

Just something to pass the time while everyone waits for the Fed announcement.

It’s no surprise that this song was written by an American living in Paris, since the deterioration of the dollar often shows up first and most obviously in foreign exchanges. Well, the Dollar Got the Blues again so we thought we’d put this up as our third video this morning.

Hat tip: Mises.org.

It’s the return of Merle Hazard. Last time we heard from this ersatz country music singer, he was lamenting the demise of his hedge fund. This time around he’s meeting with Art Laffer, singing about the Federal Reserve and the plight of mortgage bond traders.

The lads and lasses at College Humor imagine what it would be like if people reacted behaved in business meeting like they do on website comment boards.

Internet Commenter Business Meeting [YouTube.com]

One of the gripes against Yahoo CEO Jerry Wang is that he’s a socially inept nerd who seems completely unable to talk to investors, Wall Street or, we’re guessing, the ladies. So, in advance of today’s earnings news, we hereby nominate Gabe and Max to run Yahoo. We know it’s a bold call but, well, it’s got to start somewhere. Why not here? Why not now?

(Editor’s note: We’re a bit worried about this. If these guys will sell the secrets of the internet to anyone who calls them, pretty soon everyone will be on the internet. And then what will happen?)

Gabe and Max’s Internet Thing [Max Silverstri Wants This Inside You via Gawker]

Holy cow!

Rizzuto, Yankees Hall of Fame Player, Announcer, Dies [Bloomberg]
Video credit: Gawker.

Volatility got you at wits end? Maybe you should consider this procedure to reduce tension.

Erin Burnett had a rough day on Friday. In addition to her regular duties hosting Squawk on the Street and Street Signs, the CNBC anchor took to the streets of Times Square in the midst of an on and off rain storm to do those always awkward man-on-the-street interviews with tourists and office workers. But her toughest interview wasn’t with one of these innocent bystanders. It was with Hardball host Chris Matthews.

You can watch the video above to see the awkward moment that develops when Matthews decides he needs to get a bit closer to Burnett. (Thanks to NewsBusters for capturing the video.)

After the jump you can read the transcript (again via Newsbusters). You can get an idea of what happens from the NewsBusters commentary. “Chris, I know it was Friday night and Erin Burnett is indeed a knockout. However, perhaps you could be a little more subtle about your attraction for Erin. After all, among the few dozen of your Hardball viewers, Mrs. Matthews could have been watching your leering performance,” they write.

Leering Chris Matthews Asks Female CNBC Anchor to Move in Closer to Camera [NewsBusters]

There’s an old story about the day Humphrey Bogart went to see a performance by a Bogart impersonator. After the show someone asks Bogart what he thought. The star replied, “One of us stinks.”

We were reminded of this story when we watched the clip above from the movie Boiler Room. One of the brilliant things about the movie was the way it dealt with the effect of movies about finance on the people who work in finance. Regardless of the motivations of writer and director Oliver Stone, Wall Street has long been embraced by young Wall Streeters who, even if they may not want to meet Bud Fox’s end, share the ambitions that drove him to Gordon Gekko’s lair. Boiler Room doesn’t quite have the cult status of Wall Street but it plausibly handles dealing with the recursiveness of a culture in which a film is modeled on financial culture and then comes to shape that very financial culture.

Anyway, it’s been a slow news day here at DealBreaker HQ so we’re bringing you the pinnacle of this recursive culture: the scene where boys of JT Marlin mouth the words of Gordon Gekko. Art imitates reality imitating art imitating reality.

We keep thinking it would have been better if they had mentioned backdating. But maybe that’s just us.

Box NYC is one of those events we always get invited to but never actually get around to attending. It’s not that it doesn’t sound promising—boxing, dinner, poker, models. What’s not to like? What’s more, as long as our friends who still work in finance are ponying up for the table—which apparently costs around $8000—there’s really no excuse not for going at all. But we don’t go, and we can never figure out why.

Fortunately our buddies at LX.TV were there, and brought home the video above.

(Yes, we know that that Gawker called it a “titanic douche convention” and complained about racism. But they also seemed uncomfortable for boxing so we already know they aren’t our kind of people.)

Apparently, it tastes nothing like chicken.

Our quick hit last night on CNBC’s On The Money. We discuss the latest poetic outburst of Third Point’s Dan Loeb.

Minyanville debuts its animated business news program, Hoofy & Boo’s News & Views. Look out Lindsay Campbell!