Main Street / Wall Street

For some reason I've been noticing commercials more often. It's possible that I've been watching too much live television so I can't TiVo through the ads like I normally do. Anyway, in watching these ads I've picked up on a few things, one of them being the proliferation of the the Wall Street vs Main Street tags. Since the economy has been in the shitter I've been hearing this a LOT. I'm at the point where I become angry when I hear it. Maybe the first one or two ad writers who though this quasi-catchphrase was clever (it's not, BYW, and it's actually quite old), but it seems like every gd writer who can't think of anything better to crap out onto the airwaves has decided to glam onto this horrifically fucked-out tag. STOP IT!!! BE ORIGINAL!!! I don't want to here about any damn streets, or fat cats (whatever the fuck those are supposed to be), or any other shit like that. It's bad enough I'm forced to endure your crappy, unentertaining ads, but at least pretend to try to make a decent ad.

That said, I will give props to Sony. Last night I saw an old Sony VCR ad from, like, 1982. The tag on the ad was about recycling old commercials as part of a whole green promotion. That was clever. Much love.