So for now everyone, Stay Frosty. And Happy Thanksgiving again!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Strange Commercials Part 2
Okay, so here's another blog post about strange commercials after the "Hooker's Furniture" store one.. First off is EA Active. I just saw the commercial for it and I honestly though it was for the bowflex or something until I noticed that the lady was holding a Wii Mote.. I wasn't looking at the tv, and you know how when you've seen commercials before and you just hear it then know which one it is? Yeah, I did one of those. Or so I thought.. So apparently EA Sports is trying to confuse people into thinking they're buying a bowflex? Anyway.. Then I saw a commercial for James Patterson (BEST AUTHOR EVER. Wrote/is writing the Maximium Ride series. If you don't know what that is then you have to read it, even if you don't like reading. I let Anna borrow one of the books from the series last year for that daily reading thing and she actually read the whole thing. That's saying something.) advertising the next book in the Alex Cross series (Anna also read a book from that series for English, I'm just good at this book recommendation thing). He's got this thing with series..es.. apparently.. I don't think he actually has too many books that aren't part of a series.. Anyway. So it's weird when books get advertised on TV in the first place. It's like when they advertise MMORPG's on TV (things like World of Warcraft for anyone who doesn't know what an MMORPG is. It stands for Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game.. I'm using a lot of parenthesis..es.. today.. I'm also picking a lot of words that are hard to make plural..), it's just weird. (Isn't my work with the font tools pretty?! I bolded the letters that make MMORPG in the words.. Yay helpfullness!). Anyway, so he was advertising it and all I hear is "You should buy the next Alex Cross book, or I'm going to KILL OFF Alex.". And I was thinking to myself "Well, that's a new and interesting way to advertise a book..". It's a tactic that might actually work because his Alex Cross series is actually a pretty long running and popular series. Run longer than 98% of the people reading this blog post have been alive... I think the first one came out in like 1992? Maybe 93, but early that time. So.. yes. It was strange. Anyway, you all should be happy because this is two blog posts in one day in a span of less than 12 hours, so yay for you! I might post another one later tonight or early tomorrow (and by early I mean when I get around to getting up).
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