February 06, 2005

Bloody Sunday

I'm writing from Philly, where the city is still recovering from tonight's Super Bowl loss to the Patriots. A good game, and a valient effort by the Eagles, but they sadly came up short, and will have to remain content with finally making it out of the NFC title game.

The best commercial? Unquestionably, the BudAmeriquest spot with the guy cooking pasta and spilling the sauce on his cat while holding a knife, so that it appeared to his girlfriend that he had slit its throat. Great stuff. And it wouldn't have killed McCartney to sing at least one song that was less than 30 years old.

That's all for now; more tomorrow, when I return to New York.

UPDATE: Bit of a strange paragraph in the NYT's roundup of the ads:

Anheuser-Busch: A gauzy valentine to American troops, which ended with the Anheuser-Busch corporate logo superimposed on screen, was touching, but some viewers may have wondered whether "Busch" had been misspelled.
Huh? Since when is expression of support for the troops explicitly tied to the president? I suppose the only people who scoff at such a thing are those whose reaction to the prior commercial was "Ugh, that's SO jingoistic!"

Posted by Stephen Silver at February 6, 2005 11:56 PM
Comments

And we're surprised to see that reaction in the New York Times because...?

Posted by: Gib at February 7, 2005 09:01 AM

I was with a group of friends who were visibly embarrassed and irritated by that commercial.

I, in turn, was visibly irritated with my friends because of this.

Posted by: red at February 7, 2005 10:24 AM

Exactly, Gib. Exactly. But good for Steve for taking note.

Appreciating the troops doing a difficult task is frowned upon in certain circles. This all goes back to bitterness towards Bush. Well, red, you get to find out who sees the big picture and who just goes along with the mob. Treasure the former, they're few and far between.

Posted by: Mr. Snitch at February 7, 2005 11:08 AM

The commercial would have been perfect if the corporate logo didn't appear at the end (i.e. the commmercial ended with a "thank you")

Posted by: norbizness at February 7, 2005 11:31 AM

Wow, Becca let you blog from her apartment!

Posted by: A at February 7, 2005 02:27 PM

Well, I treasure my friends regardless of their political opinions. I just couldn't help but notice their VISIBLE irritation and at open gratitude.

Posted by: red at February 7, 2005 02:52 PM
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