Am I the only Sour Cherry on your fruit stand?

So, there's this show Gossip Girl that has had consistently great advertising, imo. The spots always portray the show in the most favorable light, given its content. The music is always excellent, as well.

Season 2 just recently started and there's print ads for it that are really great.






The ads use a racy image from the show and a line from seemingly negative reviews. But, the negativity of the line only helps the ads. This is so well thought out. Lightyears better than Microsoft's attempt to discredit negative reviews of Vista with the Mojave thing.






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I Don't Want to Work for Diddy

Don't you hate when something makes you really angry yet you still indulge? That's how I feel about a lot of television shows, particularly VH1's I Want to Work for Diddy -- a reality show in which people compete to work for Sean "Puff Daddy... Puffy... P Diddy... Diddy..." Combs.

Why do I hate that I love this show? The show kind of makes me sick to my stomach yet I DVR it every week. First, I'm not the biggest fan of Diddy. I don't have any real hatred for him. I just feel like he's put up on this pedestal. Yeah, he's really successful for exploiting facilitating the talent of others -- but, correct me if I'm wrong here: he's not God!

Second, last night's episode (where his mother and children's mother decided which team were better slaves assistants during the challenge) just made me wonder if there's an inverse relationship between wealth and humility. Is it necessary to be arrogant or rude because you make lots of money... or you're somehow connected to someone who makes lots of money?

Third, the assistants are so subservient and so ecstatic to be put through ridiculous things. I'm not naive. I'm sure that Diddy and many other successful people need assistants, but I'm also certain that there's a line between assisting and doing something simple you could easily do for yourself or doing something incredibly ridiculous to abuse your celebrity and/or assistants.

But, hey, it's not my dream to work for him and I'm glad so. I've been fortunate enough to not have any difficult bosses. And I'm not saying I won't. I just hope they won't have the attitude that they're God's gift to humanity -- or God Himself.

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Mad Men

Such an amazing show. So smart, deep, entertaining, funny at times. Everything a television program should be.

Speaking of funny at times: I LOL'd at Peggy call Don by his first name. The looks on his and her faces were so weirdly funny.

And ouch, those flashbacks of Peggy in '60 are brutal.

I like the way they connect the sponsor spots to the show by displaying the ad facts during commercial breaks. The BMW X-series safety commercials are good in a weird, still-not-as-good-as-Fallon kinda way. I pay a lot of attention to BMW advertising, since it's the only luxury/foreign car I'm infatuated with -- well, car at all. Is that the creative director in me speaking?

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