This NFL Evolution advertisement is brilliant as they animate the changes in the pro football uniform.
I don’t use the term “brilliant” lightly.
Feb 03
next year I will just live tweet this stuff
For one thing I will have a larger built-in guarantee that someone will read it. Then all I have to do is go back and transcribe it to keep it. 140 characters is a fun bit. This is just a typing text. Wow.
Feb 03
break 12 is just a Lincoln MKZ advertisment
I love Lincoln advertisements and I want one of their cars but this MKZ ad uncharacteristically does not thrill me.
Feb 03
break 11
A commercial with the classic cliche of old people acting young. it is a Taco Bell commercial with an American pop song sang with Spanish lyrics.
Skechers ads are always a fair combination of flashy, stylish, and corny.
An NFL recap bit brought to us by the tire folk at Bridgestone.
I might watch Elementary after the Super Bowl….
Feb 03
break 10
A Coca-Cola advertisement featuring a desert race and a vote at http://cokechase.com is BRILLIANT.
A 15th anniversary Jarod commercial for Subway? Gah.
Feb 03
break 08
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS has a trailer. Somehow I wish I had not seen this advertisement as it spoils…. and it does not seem to imply Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before.
The Rock chases milk in a go Milk ad that is hilarious.
The following Hyundai ad doesn’t amuse as much. But it’s good. Perhaps I just hate Hyundai. No… I definitely hate it.
Feb 03
break 07
A Bud Light coommercial revolves around New Orleans because the Suepr Bowl is now in the SuperDome this year, in New Orleans. Well, there is also the magic of the voodoo. It is the culmination of the “It’s Only Weird If It Doesn’t Work” ad campaign and it is brilliant.
Following that is the BigDadd.co advertisement (as opposed to BigDaddy.com) telling you that having the best idea doesn’t mean anything if you don’t advertise first. “More Everything Skywaitress!”
Feb 03
break 06
#Doritos advertisement involves manipulative children and cross-dressing.
Calvin Klein is unwatchable to me.
There was a car ad I think and I blinked.
The cars.com ad with the wolves is great… especially the “incredibly protective mother”
Feb 03
break 05 – end of First Quarter
Another Fast and Furious movie…. what is this the sixth one? it almost looks like a G.I. Jo movie or a XXX chapter. Fast & Furious 6
Now we have a Toyota ad with Kaley Kuoco. It is a RAV4 ad and it pulls you in.
Robin Sparkles 4… How I Met Your Mother ad….
Feb 03
break 04
Oz The Great and Powerful movie trailer…. is fine.
This Coke ad is cheerful. Bleh. “Just a Litle Bit”
The Oreo ad set in a library is violent. I love it. “Cream or Cookie”.
I won’t watch the Grammy awards this year… I don’t believe.
Feb 03
break 03
Pepsi Next commercials causes catastrophic house party as the parents walk in. The so-called twist is predictable as the parents drink the Pepsi and are suddenly tolerant.
Amy Poehler annoys me in the Best Buy ad. #InfiniteAnswers
The second Budweiser Golden Crown ad may entertain me but it shares the same music as the opening to Two Broke Girls and I hate that show.
The ad for The Big Band Theory is football themed and fine.
Feb 03
break 02
Hyundai – come back when you have a team. And apparently the small kid rides with his mom having adventures gathering a bunch of other small kids for a pick-up football game. Forgettable.
The obligatory GoDaddy.com ad has Bar Raefeli and one of the extras from Chuck. Nice touch.
The obligatory Doritos ad stars a goat that rebels against a hoarding artist.
Feb 03
break 01
Beautiful legs start out a beer commercial for Budweiser Black Crown. I have seen ads for it in the Mimami airport but never on TV until now.
The M&M’s commercial is good! “I will do anything for love” is nice.
An Audi car ad is pretty good… a stag prom night ends in a happy punch to the face.
Feb 03
Hyundai ad between coin toss and kick-off
Hyundai advertisement about a road trip and chasing and running. It reminds me of Doctor Who for that reason.
I don’t recognize the band or the music in the background.
Now the game starts.
Feb 03
break, before coin toss, after National Anthem
World War Z. It stars Brad Pitt. It’s derivative advertisement, what with the trailer’s score and all.
Then we have a Century21 ad involving choking. It is rather droll.
The McDonald’s commercial annoys me.
If I don’t remember the ad well enough to type about it, let that say enough.
Jan 26
Fred Hembeck on Jenny Wren and a Phantom
from Fred Hembeck
Being the semi-literate Beatles fan that I am, upon learning that the central character (and murder victim) of 1932′s “The Phantom of Crestwood” was named Jenny Wren, I immediately assumed Paul McCartney must’ve been up late one night watching the tube when he was inspired to write a similarly named tune for his 2005 release, “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard”. Then I went to Wikipedia and learned that Jenny Wren was also a character in a Charles Dickens novel I’d never heard of, “Our Mutual Friend”. Oops. Well, at least I’m pretty sure I know where “Magneto and Titanium Man” came from… (By the way, what a crazily unique movie! Apparently NBC ran a radio serial of the same name, left off the final chapter, invited listeners to submit their own solutions to who killed Jenny (with 6000 1932 dollars divvied up amongst the winners), and then come see this RKO Radio motion picture to see WHO–NOT necessarily using the winning entry–did the dirty deed! All of this is explained by a radio announcer standing in front of a full orchestra before the title credits commence! A decent mystery with a fair amount of atmosphere (dig that death mask!) Ricardo Cortez and Karen Morely head the cast, ably abetted by the adorably named Richard “Skeets” Gallagher. And every time, early in the picture, Cortez gave out the fake name, “Mr. Fonbons”, I had to laugh, as it sounded an awful lot like Don Martin’s “Fonebone”! )
from Thursday January 24 2013
Dec 23
Your fictional robots are not humans but should have human qualities
From a February 2007 interview with James Roberts by TransFans.co.uk:
There is a danger of making a Transformer too human; ultimately, they are alien life-forms, and robotic ones at that. But the TF mythos endures because of the characters, and that wouldn’t have happened unless fans could – at some level – identify with those characters. From day one we’ve heard about the ‘heroic’ Autobots and the ‘evil’ Decepticons – the two sides are defined by very human qualities. I also think that any society, even one comprised of shape-shifting mechanoids, is shaped by politics, race relations, economics, ethics, questions of identity and so on. Transformers society is no different, and that was something I tried to get across in Eugenesis. Notwithstanding the above, you have to try to constantly remind readers that these characters aren’t human. As a rule of thumb, if you can swap all the Transformers in your story for humans and still tell the same story, it’s not working. The non-human aspects of these characters – their long, potentially endless life-spans, their concept of pain, their attitude towards non-mechanical life, the way they can modify their bodies, their ambiguous origins… it’s all endlessly fascinating.
James Roberts currently writes Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye for IDW Comics. A long time ago he wrote and self-published a fanfiction prose novel called Eugenisis. The work was good enough and appreciated enough that eventually he writes for the property professionally.
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