It has been quite sometime since my last posting, and for that I am just slightly apologetic. What can I say Life = BUSY... and if we want to take that equation a little further we can see that BUSY = Kenny G and Kenny G = Saxophone and Saxophone = Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton = Hot dog... therefore through the transitive property: Life = Hot dog... You can thank me later for doing all the front work on the math.
You know that expression that you don't know somebody until you walk a mile in their shoes? I wish I would have gotten to "know" somebody today, because I was wearing some new shoes that really cut up my feet - so I guess retrospectively if I would have gotten a chance to walk a mile in somebody else's shoes, today would have been a great day to do that... Oh well - but i am pretty sure the guy who thought up that philosophical saying was really wanting to break in his new Doc Martens (oh yes, I went there) and just didn't want to be the one that had to suffer through all the blisters.
On a sports related note (because I can) - the Vikings are on the verge of addressing their quarterback problem by trading for the Houston Texans backup - Sage Rosenfels. First of all, can we all agree that if you are indeed going to get a football player named after a spice that it should be one that sounds a little more ferocious. I am thinking like Cajun Johnston, or Wasabi Nelson would both be excellent names for football players. Secondly, Sage Rosenfels is the backup in HOUSTON - one might say if we resort to taking players who don't even play from a teams with the tagline "(Houston) We have a problem" (its an old Nasa joke for all you kids out there...) what position does that put the Vikes in? Instead of that being a rhetorical question, which I posed it to be, I will just answer it. It puts the Vikes into a situation similar to that of Rosanne and Tom Arnold... yeah - pretty bad.
It is bedtime now - but I hopefully will be updating by weeks end!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Super Bawl
I was going to start out this entry by saying, "was it just me or..." but since it is rhetorical, and really this is all about me - I will just focus on what I think.
Anyways, one of my favorite days of the year just happened... No, not the 4th Friday of the 1st month of the year... it was the SUPER BOWL. I really appreciate most aspects of this glorious event. It is perhaps one of the most over-hyped non-holiday there is! I say over-hyped not with a negative connotation, because sometimes it is really fun to get swept into the whole emotional context with the day! But in some regards I feel like the Super Bowl sets some high expectations that don't always get addressed.
I, of course, am referring to the commercials. Don't get me wrong, I am a big football fan, and usually become a bandwagon jumper of whatever team is the underdog going into the Super Bowl (obviously, I would cheer for the Vikings if they made it, but I also have a strong sense of reality running through me). The commercials really are a large part of my Super Bowl experience, as that is what spawned my interest in my hopeful future in advertising. The fact that these commercials are designed mainly for entertainment purposes really intrigues me, because brands are more open to take risks and put themselves out there in a unique way.
This year I felt disappointed. Brands like Budweiser opted to repeatedly use dull characters (Clydesdale horses) in their advertisements - which really befuddles me. Budweiser used to be the juggernaut of Super Bowl advertisements, it always felt like they were a brand that knew their stuff when it came to preforming on the big stage. It turns out this year they flopped harder than Ashlee Simpson.
Don't get me wrong, there were a few commercials that did get me chuckling. But take me back to the days of Terry Tate: Office Linebacker, or even Cat Herder (two of my favorite ads that were both ironically done by Minnesota-based Fallon agency - no Midwestern bias here...) and let me see some more extravagant and creative advertisements. Obviously, it is a sign of the time (dare I say the "bad economy" buzz words), businesses cherish their image and may find it fiscally irresponsible to take a $3 million risk on a more exuberant advertisements.
Needless to say, I am already looking forward to next years Super Bowl! Hopefully a few years down the line I will be able to be more game and less talk - by helping to contribute to an awesome Super Bowl commercial! Here's to dreams!
Anyways, one of my favorite days of the year just happened... No, not the 4th Friday of the 1st month of the year... it was the SUPER BOWL. I really appreciate most aspects of this glorious event. It is perhaps one of the most over-hyped non-holiday there is! I say over-hyped not with a negative connotation, because sometimes it is really fun to get swept into the whole emotional context with the day! But in some regards I feel like the Super Bowl sets some high expectations that don't always get addressed.
I, of course, am referring to the commercials. Don't get me wrong, I am a big football fan, and usually become a bandwagon jumper of whatever team is the underdog going into the Super Bowl (obviously, I would cheer for the Vikings if they made it, but I also have a strong sense of reality running through me). The commercials really are a large part of my Super Bowl experience, as that is what spawned my interest in my hopeful future in advertising. The fact that these commercials are designed mainly for entertainment purposes really intrigues me, because brands are more open to take risks and put themselves out there in a unique way.
This year I felt disappointed. Brands like Budweiser opted to repeatedly use dull characters (Clydesdale horses) in their advertisements - which really befuddles me. Budweiser used to be the juggernaut of Super Bowl advertisements, it always felt like they were a brand that knew their stuff when it came to preforming on the big stage. It turns out this year they flopped harder than Ashlee Simpson.
Don't get me wrong, there were a few commercials that did get me chuckling. But take me back to the days of Terry Tate: Office Linebacker, or even Cat Herder (two of my favorite ads that were both ironically done by Minnesota-based Fallon agency - no Midwestern bias here...) and let me see some more extravagant and creative advertisements. Obviously, it is a sign of the time (dare I say the "bad economy" buzz words), businesses cherish their image and may find it fiscally irresponsible to take a $3 million risk on a more exuberant advertisements.
Needless to say, I am already looking forward to next years Super Bowl! Hopefully a few years down the line I will be able to be more game and less talk - by helping to contribute to an awesome Super Bowl commercial! Here's to dreams!
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