Candidates Waging Battle of Quotes, Sources Say
New York, NY — It’s never been more difficult to separate whining from substance. America’s 2008 presidential race is fully engaged, but truth and credibility are not.
The road to the White House is littered with the corpses of shattered reality and common decency — casualties of one of the ugliest, nastiest major U.S. elections since 2004.
Campaign Idea for Obama
I was thinking about how effective Jon Stewart’s instant juxtaposition of video clips is, showing politicians saying one thing today and the opposite months ago. I wonder if Obama could take a big screen TV or projector with him when he speaks before crowds in places that are sure to draw CNN coverage, where he could show clips to live audiences. Then they would see the hypocrisy–and viewers on CNN would see the clips as they saw the people watching and responding to them. Then nobody could claim he was playing dirty because–there it is, in their own words. What do you think?
No
I do not like this new United Airlines commercial at all. I find its imagery profoundly disturbing on some visceral level.
And there’s no organ in “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman Borders Commercial
Not sure what I make of this, but I suppose a guy has to feed himself somehow.
via fimoculous
“Happy Period Control”
via feministing (Thanks, erin!)
Pinch Me
I just saw a television commercial for a prescription sleep-aid that included this phrase, spoken in that soothing voice they all use: “If you walk, eat, or drive while sleeping, contact your doctor.” Drive? Isn’t that a little like saying “If you happen to murder somebody while taking our product, contact your doctor”?
Big Bill Hell’s (NSFW)
Hot Dr. Pepper Commercial
Confessions
- I sort of like the Travelocity gnome.
- I’ve only seen a few Coen Bros. films.
- I wonder if there is any advertising entity to which The Postal Service has not sold rights for “Such Great Heights”.
Salvador Dali and Chocolate
Fifteen beautiful seconds of oddness.
The Awareness Test
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4[/youtube]
Count the number of times the players in white pass the ball. Then be prepared to blow your mind.
(thanks, Derek)
For (this) Cindy
FINALLY! A tampon spot with a beaver.
Um . . .
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9NUPLaoUdo[/youtube]
New Zealand vs Scotland in rugby
“We want you! We want you! We want you as a new recruit!”
Two recruitment ads for foreign militaries. And to think ours are knock-offs of Top Gun.
A recruitment ad for the Ukrainian army . . .
. . . and one for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. Andrew Sullivan, my source for these masterpieces, says of this one, “I’m guessing they don’t have a gay ban.”
Excerpts from Amazon UK customer reviews of the Bic Crystal ballpoint pen
(Quick observation: Amazon will indeed sell anything)
Those wishing to order can go here.
Some customers are more pleased than others . . .
I notice that the barrel of the pen has been crafted very carefully to fit in the pen holder down the edge of my Filofax. It’s not so grippy so that it is hard to remove when I want to make a quick note, and yet not so loose that it falls out too easily when I open my Filofax in a hurry. Maybe the choice of surface texture on the pen has some part to play here, because it seems that the inside of the leather grip on the pen holder in my Filofax has just the right level of adhesion that I can be confident when I need to reach in and get my pen it’s going to be just where I left it!
More excerpts below the fold . . .
Good ad, nasty beer
Speeking of proofreeding
Everyone’s a winner after a direct-mail marketing company hired by a local car dealership mistakenly sent out 50,000 scratch-off tickets to residents — all of them declaring the ticket-holder the $1,000 grand prize winner. Just one of the tickets was supposed to be the grand prize winner.
Good Marketing
Campaign #1
The Radioactive Atomic indoor/outdoor speakers are the latest in an enormously successful series of reliable, good-sounding, and arguably over-priced home entertainment products. An ever-growing number of clever, attractive, and popular consumers has come to realize that Radioactive Atomic speakers open the doorway that leads to a better future. Are you brave enough, smart enough, redeemable enough to pass through that door? We doubt it, but read on just in case.
jPhone
[via my job, oddly enough]
“I Got a Crush on Obama”
link (via Andrew Sullivan)
Be reminded of your Spiritual self
. . . and for only $80 per bottle!
Some observations here
(via Andrew Sullivan)
Ingredients for a night of romance:
Take subdued lighting, Old Spice, nubile women, a baby grand piano, Duran Duran, and Bruce Campbell. Mix well.
(via Evolution)
This sort of stuff seems to be about all I’m good for these days. Apologies.
Outtakes from my earliest memories of Orson Welles
Weird, now that I think about it, that it was his ads for Paul Masson back in the ’70s that introduced me to the maker of the greatest film of all time.
A precipitous decline even from this . . . to say nothing of his work before. Funny, till you remember.
(via The Plank)
“You might be overqualified”
I don’t know if this works, but it certainly is a departure from the usual fare.