A Monday Morning Mixed Bag
Various things:
The UK version of the soundtrack to the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode Once More, With Feeling is released today. Amazon have it for £10.99 with a one to two week delivery, so I'm hoping that an actual shop can do rather better.
Speaking of Buffy, Joss Whedon discussed the likelihood of season seven being the last in an item on TV Guide Online.
Owen at Bloing points us to a site which aims to find "1000 People More Annoying Than Mick Hucknall" - which is one of those sites which looks like it's going to be funny until you start to read the reasons for the various nominations, and discover that people's definitions of 'annoying' are occasionally deeply offensive. Martina Navratilova's on there because 'she's an ugly lesbian', Elton John is described: "He is damn ugly somewhere between a pig and a ogre and his is an unashamed arse bandit." (nice grammar there), and generally, just check anyone gay or lesbian, any woman who might be seen as too small or too large, and generally anyone remotely outside a fairly narrow (largely male), demographic. And be prepared for some unpleasant views and nasty language. Ah, the democracy of the internet.
Elsewhere, Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has denounced the ads running for this week's Motor Show as sexist because they feature a big close-up of an attractive woman. Whether she's right or wrong, she's giving the Motor Show more attention than the ad itself, which is of course the unfortunate side-effect of drawing attention to something one thinks is bad. Still, someone in their advertising agency must be feeling rather gleeful this morning - no doubt they charged a small fortune for the 32 seconds or so it must have taken them to think "Hmmm, why don't we advertise a car event with a half-naked woman?" Because that's never been done before.
October 28th, 2002 - 16:51
I heard somewhere that the designer was a woman which is quite interesting.
It seems that semi naked women are used to sell everything to anyone. But as a heterosexual man I don’t feel the need to rush out and buy some body firming cream just because a very attractive young lady advertises it.
October 28th, 2002 - 18:24
Actually, on a totally different front (or rear) – have you seen that TV ad for some men’s fragrance or other in which the bloke hops out of bed and makes himself a cup of tea, having kicked a cushion down the corridor, all with no clothes on and showing his arse at every opportunity?
Quite a striking ad in some ways, but wholly useless by the only measure that should count, which is making me remember the product name.
October 28th, 2002 - 19:40
I know the one – it’s Alis favourite
October 28th, 2002 - 20:16
Ah – a woman of fine taste, clearly.
He’s a very nice looking bloke, I have to say/