If any of you are like me, I am in bed pretty early since I'm up so early the next day. Thank the cable gods for DVR.
So I haven't actually seen an episode of SNL for some time now, but I do always catch the funniest clips that are posted on YouTube. Here is one that I think is brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNDzrfU0Ss
Beware-Once you get on YouTube it's hard to quit!
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007
Irresponsible Super Bowl Commercials
As for the actual Super Bowl-It was entertaining. I can appreciate a few good hits and touch downs. I can appreciate a half time show with Prince. He's a legend, I get it. I can also appreciate Billy Joel floundering to find the right pitch in the rain whilst singing the national anthem. I get all that.
What I can't appreciate are the Snicker's add and the GoDaddy.com add.
The Snicker's add I'm talking about is the add with the two mechanics who end up kissing because one of them is eating a snickers and the other one can't resist the snickers so he jumps in to eat the one that is already in the guys mouth....ending in a kiss.
1)It's 2007 and two men kissing is supposed to be earth shatteringly funny? How insulting to the gay community.
2)Even more insulting is that after the two men realize they just kissed each other they feel the need to do something "manly" like rip the chest hair out of their chest. That's just dumb. This commercial is just perpetuating the idea that men kissing is disgusting. This commercial just feeds into every person who thinks it's okay to gay bash and tells every boy watching the Super Bowl that men kissing is dirty and something to be mocked-not accepted.
3)Even worse, on http://www.snickers.com/ there are alternate endings to this commercial and whichever ending gets the most votes will get aired on the Daytona 500. The alternate endings include one where the men decide to drink motor oil after kissing one another because apparently it's better to kill yourself than to kiss another man. Another alternate ending has the two mechanics beat each other with a wrench and close the others head in the hood of the car. Are you kidding me? With hate crimes and gay bashings happening still in this day and age, Snickers thinks its OK to show men beating each other after kissing to "do something manly"? There is nothing funny about these adds. Shame on snickers for being incredibly insulting, unoriginal, and irresponsible.
The other commercial I found totally insulting to its viewers intelligence was the godaddy.com commercial. Basically it threw a bunch of "sexy" women up on the screen for a few seconds and that is supposed to sell me on their product. http://http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/media/lounge.asp?ci=7763
Sadly, if you go to their website they provide you with "HOT! INTERNET ONLY" versions of this crap commercial. Go Daddy has successfully insulted half of it's customer base-the female half.
Basically I'm sad and angry that kids were able to watch and absorb the message that both of these adds sent out.
What I can't appreciate are the Snicker's add and the GoDaddy.com add.
The Snicker's add I'm talking about is the add with the two mechanics who end up kissing because one of them is eating a snickers and the other one can't resist the snickers so he jumps in to eat the one that is already in the guys mouth....ending in a kiss.
1)It's 2007 and two men kissing is supposed to be earth shatteringly funny? How insulting to the gay community.
2)Even more insulting is that after the two men realize they just kissed each other they feel the need to do something "manly" like rip the chest hair out of their chest. That's just dumb. This commercial is just perpetuating the idea that men kissing is disgusting. This commercial just feeds into every person who thinks it's okay to gay bash and tells every boy watching the Super Bowl that men kissing is dirty and something to be mocked-not accepted.
3)Even worse, on http://www.snickers.com/ there are alternate endings to this commercial and whichever ending gets the most votes will get aired on the Daytona 500. The alternate endings include one where the men decide to drink motor oil after kissing one another because apparently it's better to kill yourself than to kiss another man. Another alternate ending has the two mechanics beat each other with a wrench and close the others head in the hood of the car. Are you kidding me? With hate crimes and gay bashings happening still in this day and age, Snickers thinks its OK to show men beating each other after kissing to "do something manly"? There is nothing funny about these adds. Shame on snickers for being incredibly insulting, unoriginal, and irresponsible.
The other commercial I found totally insulting to its viewers intelligence was the godaddy.com commercial. Basically it threw a bunch of "sexy" women up on the screen for a few seconds and that is supposed to sell me on their product. http://http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/media/lounge.asp?ci=7763
Sadly, if you go to their website they provide you with "HOT! INTERNET ONLY" versions of this crap commercial. Go Daddy has successfully insulted half of it's customer base-the female half.
Basically I'm sad and angry that kids were able to watch and absorb the message that both of these adds sent out.
Friday, February 2, 2007
Political Blogging
I would say that most politicians who will be running for President have blogs or will have blogs in the near future. It's a great way for them to get their message out to a large audience.
Hillary Clinton's blog goes a step further and offers the coding for other fellow bloggers to post the video of her presidential announcement speech. What a great (and cheap) way to get your message heard loud and clear by countless numbers of people and a creative way for her supporters to get involved
http://www.votehillary.org/CMS/blog
Barack Obama uses podcasts to get his message out to people on his site:
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/
Mitt Romney has a link on his website called "Mitt TV" basically offering tv clips of his many tv spots.
http://www.mittromney.com/Mitt-TV/index
However, sometimes its just refreshing to laugh at politics. Which leads me to another one of my favorite blogs. The Comedy Central "Indecider Blog". This is mainly clips from Jon Stewart's Daily Show.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/cc_indecider/
Hillary Clinton's blog goes a step further and offers the coding for other fellow bloggers to post the video of her presidential announcement speech. What a great (and cheap) way to get your message heard loud and clear by countless numbers of people and a creative way for her supporters to get involved
http://www.votehillary.org/CMS/blog
Barack Obama uses podcasts to get his message out to people on his site:
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/
Mitt Romney has a link on his website called "Mitt TV" basically offering tv clips of his many tv spots.
http://www.mittromney.com/Mitt-TV/index
However, sometimes its just refreshing to laugh at politics. Which leads me to another one of my favorite blogs. The Comedy Central "Indecider Blog". This is mainly clips from Jon Stewart's Daily Show.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/cc_indecider/
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