It’s been some time since I last posted. I was writing a big series on how I made this web site, then the Olympics interrupted my rhythm, and I never got it back. Other projects have snatched my attention and I have neglected this site. I apologize.
To make up for it, I have a couple commercials here [...]
Here we are, back again with me railing and lauding commercials. Good fun, eh?
I say “eh” because my favorite commercial of my extensive Olympics viewership so far this year has come via the Canadian Broadcasting Channel. This video took tons of hunting down to find, as apparently no one in Canada has heard of YouTube.
Obviously [...]
You’d have to have been living under a mountain to not have seen the AT&T ‘Alter Ego’ set of commercials lately. There are many.
I’m actually quite the fan of this commercial. It’s innovative, funny, and conveys a clear message: AT&T makes you not-dumb. Let’s watch, shall we:
According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, a whopping 73% of Americans say rising gas prices are a somewhat or very serious problem for their families. That means 3 out of 4 of us are feeling the hurt of, oh I dunno, nearly tripled gas prices in five years.
So the car manufacturers have risen [...]
Although I’m only in my mid-20s, I know how the system works. Broadcast and print media aren’t trying to inform or entertain us; they’re trying to sell us to their sponsers. They don’t care if a new show is acclaimed by the critics as long as it brings in the viewers which then [...]