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Dear Holiday Inn Express
Aug. 31st, 2008 09:45 pmI am a woman.
I hate yogurt.
I LOVE bacon.
Your latest commercial is made of FAIL.
No thanks nor love.
TBQ
I hate yogurt.
I LOVE bacon.
Your latest commercial is made of FAIL.
No thanks nor love.
TBQ
Vacation and links
Aug. 16th, 2008 04:52 pmVacation, day one. Already I have done knitting and cuddling with kitties. There's been other stuff too but c'mon. Priorities.
Some links for you all! Including one I think is a must-see for everyone who is... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, alive. You can view Killing Us Softly 3, Advertising's Image of Women online thanks to googlevideo. It's a few years old but very sad how much has yet to change. (See also: Wrangler uses dead women to sell jeans. Which is from THIS WEEK WTF.) As Jean says, advertising sells more than products. Of note is how she also discusses racism. There's plenty of examples for that intersectionality that IBARW was talking about.
( More links behind the cut... for after you've watched the above movie, of course )
Some links for you all! Including one I think is a must-see for everyone who is... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, alive. You can view Killing Us Softly 3, Advertising's Image of Women online thanks to googlevideo. It's a few years old but very sad how much has yet to change. (See also: Wrangler uses dead women to sell jeans. Which is from THIS WEEK WTF.) As Jean says, advertising sells more than products. Of note is how she also discusses racism. There's plenty of examples for that intersectionality that IBARW was talking about.
( More links behind the cut... for after you've watched the above movie, of course )
Allow me to present....
Jul. 26th, 2008 08:47 pmSpent most of my day out fighting weeds instead of doing something useful, like napping. Which is to say I'm fairly brain-dead at the moment, but I still bring you links.
( Good evening and welcome to the TBQ show... )
( Good evening and welcome to the TBQ show... )
Oh so many things to headdesk about today, in various degrees of reasons why and magnitude.( No, seriously, consider yourself warned )
Looooooooong day of visiting my Grams in rehab (fractured rib kind, not Lindsey Lohan kind) and dealing with related family drama. Also if anyone knows how to get AVG free version 8.0.136 to stop bugging me to restart my computer even after I've just restarted the damn thing That would be fabulous.
Now then, on to the news. ( As always, tags are your friends )
Now then, on to the news. ( As always, tags are your friends )
So here's the thing: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
christinenj got me into using Google Reader. One of the features of said reader is sharing items from your feeds with your Google Reader friends, complete with comments if you were so inclined. Naturally I can't keep my mouth shut on much, and really the only downside to this system that I have found is that all y'all aren't on Google Reader too (don't worry about linking me if you are, it won't change this).
Well gosh, I said to myself, if only I had some way I could share interesting links and articles with the folks I usually blog with.
Yeah, I'm slow.
Anyhoo, so here's me giving it a go. We'll see if this lasts once the new toy shine is off of it. In the meanwhile it's all behind a cut tag for ease of ignoring. Look to the tags for the post to get an idea what all is included.
( From TBQ's world news central in her livingroom.... )
christinenj got me into using Google Reader. One of the features of said reader is sharing items from your feeds with your Google Reader friends, complete with comments if you were so inclined. Naturally I can't keep my mouth shut on much, and really the only downside to this system that I have found is that all y'all aren't on Google Reader too (don't worry about linking me if you are, it won't change this).Well gosh, I said to myself, if only I had some way I could share interesting links and articles with the folks I usually blog with.
Yeah, I'm slow.
Anyhoo, so here's me giving it a go. We'll see if this lasts once the new toy shine is off of it. In the meanwhile it's all behind a cut tag for ease of ignoring. Look to the tags for the post to get an idea what all is included.
( From TBQ's world news central in her livingroom.... )
And yet I like Mad Men
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:46 pmEver since I read Deadly Persuasion I can't help but look at ads in terms of what they're quietly selling, in addition to what they're obviously selling.
The obvious sell is for the product. "Buy/use this and your life will be better/faster/sexier/richer." The quiet sell - well that depends. For example, this commercial for Chase Visa that I just saw. Guy wants to buy a huge flatscreen TV, Chase offers a service where he can check his balance instantly and rest assured that he's got plenty of credit so he can buy the biggest TV in the store.
Obvious message: Use Chase Visa. Quiet message: It is totally acceptable to make huge and costly impulse purchases so long as you have plenty of credit available.
Other ads have other quiet messages ("Drink as much as you like! You've got a designated driver!") but it amazes me how often the "Spend as much as you want! You have credit!" ad comes up. After all, how many times do we hear "No payment until next year!" It becomes a small wonder that this country is having such a credit crisis. We're surrounded by a culture that convinces us that the norm is to buy now, worry about it later.
Semi related to all this, I came across this article on How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising. I figured quite a few of you on my flist would love reading it.
The obvious sell is for the product. "Buy/use this and your life will be better/faster/sexier/richer." The quiet sell - well that depends. For example, this commercial for Chase Visa that I just saw. Guy wants to buy a huge flatscreen TV, Chase offers a service where he can check his balance instantly and rest assured that he's got plenty of credit so he can buy the biggest TV in the store.
Obvious message: Use Chase Visa. Quiet message: It is totally acceptable to make huge and costly impulse purchases so long as you have plenty of credit available.
Other ads have other quiet messages ("Drink as much as you like! You've got a designated driver!") but it amazes me how often the "Spend as much as you want! You have credit!" ad comes up. After all, how many times do we hear "No payment until next year!" It becomes a small wonder that this country is having such a credit crisis. We're surrounded by a culture that convinces us that the norm is to buy now, worry about it later.
Semi related to all this, I came across this article on How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising. I figured quite a few of you on my flist would love reading it.
