Many of you may have seen this woman around the strip within the last year. Interestingly enough, she was on one of her rants directed at what you or I couldn't see. She was sitting on our curb front on Elmwood as often people do. I said hello, but there wasn't a response. Then I said "How are you?" The next part took me by surprise. We ended up having a very interesting dialogue. It seems she has another side to her and aparently you can pull her out of a rant just by saying hello. She shared with me some of her struggles, we exchanged names and I said goodbye. The conversation probably lasted 30 minutes or so. She didn't really stop talking after telling her I had to go in, so as she talked I gently and steadily shut the door.
On another note, this morning we got a call letting us know the Bishop who owns our house is ready to sell. A realtor will be here on Tuesday and they will decide whether to sell ASAP or next Spring. Of course this complicates my situation as Steve was planning on moving out in September and I was to continue living here. The price is right and I like living here. I'm probably not going to be able to afford living on my own and the other thing is who could I possibly live with?
The other thing I'm concerned about is that they will sell to some creep who just wants to tear the house down. Maybe on Monday I could get to the Historical Society to do some research on the house. It's possible I could convince the Bishop to screen potential buyers for their intentions. We don't need another house on Elmwood destroyed for greed's sake.
I admit that I didn't watch either Ad on line. With my computer the ad wouldn't be any fun really, that is one problem with dial up. But if the burger king add is the one I think it is, I never took it seriously it is so over the top that it came off as a parody to me. I prefer the one where some hot chick is dancing in front of an expensive car with burgers. From how the Hummer ad was described it sounds funny. People remember funny. Volkwagon does just the opposite with that one where everyone is looking at there cars in the glass building and the tag line is something like "low ego emisions" they really have some great ads. I admit I would love to get paid to come up with ad ideas that are clever and funny. In terms of the dodge ad I thought that was funny.
Advertisments of that degree rely on maipulating emotions and making you feel that whatever they are selling will fix your "problem".. which we never knew we had until these commercials/ads told us.
It gets me frustrated at times, but as the article you included suggests.. we can just think about it from the perspective of what they might be trying to sell/manipulate etc. With that we can feel better about ourselves knowing that we figured it it and we know better. haha.. when I was around 20, frustrated by the immense amount of lame ads in a girls magazine, I took it (and others) and ripped out all of the ads that had a manipulative element. I was left with just a few sparse articles.
As for the BK ad.. 'manly mans men' persona does nothing for me. Hopefully no one will truly buy into that "be a man, eat a burger" mentality. But the power of ads can have a strong influence..
So, Hummers attempt to conteract the gasoline price issue, is using the tag line, "restore your manhood"..?!?! ick, thats a low blow. gasholes!
Good stuff to think about.
um. yeah. i hate hummers, and people that drive/like them so much I can't even think of words to write about it.
Great... just what the world needs the "cute baby" of a robot and a monster that go around smashing up a town. Perfect!
And the "manhood" one sounds terrible.
And that burger king ad is horrible. Dodge had to edit the 'fairy' one, but that is OK?!
This is the kind of shit that makes me embarrassed to be an american.