Short weekend update

[figment]

Friday night: had dinner with Azure's cousin and his friend (in town visiting)
Saturday: baked bread. Made a new pair of pants. I'm very pleased with how they turned out; pictures soon. Went to a going-away party for a friend of mine from grad school; he's gotten a job with the BBC in London!
Sunday: lazy... finished another sewing project; pictures after it gets to its intended recipient. Eventually went to sorta-watch the Superbowl with friends J & K. As usual I mostly paid attention to the commercials and the socializing, and only minimally to the game. Left midway through 4th quarter. Nice time with friends. Prince's halftime show was great!

Comments

Re: Super Bowl Ads

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

The noteworthy ads - the non-trailer ones - were largely violent. I was a bit disturbed and didn't think that most of them were that funny or clever, either. Uggabugga exaggerates the seriousness of the Grand Theft Auto-style one; that was mostly "hey look everything is sweetness and light!" and the real violent overtones come only from the setting (since GTA, the game, is so violent). I didn't see the Toughbook commercial. The first one we saw was the Bud Light commercial, which I was astounded by - and really put off (not that I'd drink Bud Light anyway). The Doritos one was also too violent and not at all funny to me. I actually thought the Careerbuilder series was pretty funny, which the other violent ones weren't (to me).

The Americans Against Escalation in Iraq ad did actually get shown, and I was very excited to see it. I didn't expect it.

The one ad I heard about but didn't actually see was a proposal. I heard that some dude was going to propose to his girlfriend via a commercial at the SuperBowl but by the time we left, we had not seen anything of the sort.

Re: Super Bowl Ads

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Then there's this (http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/02/snickers-superbowl-web-site-promotes.html).

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