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Feb 1 04: superbowl blogging
Some random notes on the Superbowl, underway as we speak. Bob and John are here. Beer and nachos for all my men!
6:10pm First adblog entry, because what is the superbowl if not a supportive matrix for a series of high-profile advertisements? The cows were funny. I think this is the campaign that Mom has been talking about for while. We don’t know what Cialis is but we suspect it’s yet another penis pill.
6:15 That NASA tribute was well-intentioned but deeply surreal. About the time the “astronaut” popped up midfield and planted the flag on the “moon,” Bobbó remarked, “This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.” Pretty apt. All I could think was that I hoped Josh Groban didn’t turn around, because if he’d burst out laughing it would have ruined his pretty song. (Did anybody else notice that you could sing “Danny Boy” simultaneous to the pretty song and it sounded good?) Oy.
7:21 This is getting ridiculous. Whatever Cialis is, Levitra is…um…taking the wind out of its sails. I was going to keep count of the male-virility-medicine ads shown tonight, but I’ve already lost track.
8:03 I was going to say something about, um, an ad that ran at 7:33? But by the time I could get the laptop from John 30 minutes had passed and now I don’t remember what it was or what my remark was going to be. Dang. It was going to be extremely clever, I tell you.
8:40 Why do they even bother with these halftime extravaganzæ? What the hell was that? A great deal of sound, fury, and fireworks, signifying nothing. With dancers and a marching band.
9:40 I am so bored. And that John Hedlund? He is mean.
10:30 Over. And, while the last 4 minutes were pretty exciting football, I’d say on balance my reaction is thank god. We may need to catch the final minutes of the Queer Eye marathon on NBC (now that’s brilliant scheduling) as an antidote.