j31 in idea barrages

Is there any worse sign for an animated film than an ad where they have side by side footage of the stunt-cast non-voice-actor celebrity recording the lead voice? They’re admitting there’s nothing to it interesting other than the celebrity being involved.

A retired drill sergeant whipping you into fitness? Thats just a personal personell trainer.

The great thing about me is that I’m both quite smart about silly useless and/or un-actionable things and pretty astonishingly dumb about many practical matters. It’s like you get to date both an overly-educated wit AND a big dumb idiot at once! I’m a two-fer!

The problem with the mass media is that it allows the masses to see all of each other as equally human, and there’s less profit in that, so all kinds of people try to drive us back into discreet niches, where we don’t have to confront our shared humanity, live in colour.

They call it Quantum or Nano or Crypto now, but they called it Electro then or Atomic or Magnetic or whatever then. They’re just throwing around whatever words they think people believe are smart and then slapping them on the same old recycled shams, over and over and again.

Inigo Montoya delivering the Roy Baty “Tears In The Rain” speech from Bladerunner before killing the six fingered man.

I realize Fountains of Wayne only had one hit & probably aren’t rich in a big rock star way, but I feel bad for whoever was so hard up for cash they said “okay” to a Maytag ad with a Stacey’s Mom rewrite jingle in it. Hope the money was worth that abomination.

I like to think that, at least once, a petroleum executive once says “It’s Motor Oil, so why not the brand name Moil?” and then he was explained to that a “mohel” is a rabbi focusing on the ritual circumcision of the boys in Jewish families. Had to be a fun explainer sesh.