After I finished with yesterday’s blog entry, I was immediately disappointed. I didn’t know why at the time, but after looking it over again today a few glaring problems need to be addressed.

1. I actually do watch commercials. I am often too lazy, or not near enough to the remote control to change the channel, and do see commercials all the time. Yet for some reason yesterday I got off on this strange tangent and acted like I’m above watching commercials or something. Not so. I am easily proved pretentious by noting that I make several different references to specific commercials, and clearly know them well enough to complain. (Although that Burger King Commercial has to go, I don’t regret that.)

2.  There are commercials I like. For example:

     A. The Wendy’s commercial where the guy eats the really hot sandwich and starts to breath fire everywhere. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

     B. That old Quizno’s commercial where the really strange rat-monkey puppets sing that “We Love The Subs” song. (An aside: The guy that made up the creatures for that commercial has a website with all these really funny videos. http://www.rathergood.com/ The original video for the rat-monkey thing is called, ‘We Like The Moon’ and is hilarious.) These are only a couple of examples.

3.  There are commercials that do, in fact, make me go and buy things. The Quizno’s commercial made me start to like Quizno’s. I am highly attracted to new advances in air freshener delivery devices, i.e. plugins, and magical spraying leaves, etc… This is just the start.

4.  I am wrong in placing all the blame at the foot of ad executives. Many probably are honest, and anyway the people themselves must exercise good reasoning and consumer skills. While ad executives do pray on media illiteracy, its existence is not completely their fault. People have to be discerning. Ad firms are kind of evil though, besides.

5.  There are many points in the article that I didn’t even make. Like how I hate that they use cool songs to advertise for banks and car companies, partly because of the sneaky appeal to my tastes, and partly because I know that I am old enough to be in the target market. And how I don’t like commercials that start out like movie trailers, then turn into car commercials.

     So as you can see, I need to put more thought into my entries, lest I get that bad, my-rant-didn’t-make-any-sence-and-made-me-look-like-pretentious-self-richeous-prick taste in my mouth.

Thank you for your time, and I will try to be clearer in the future.