In My Body Is Not The Same As On My Body

So Avon has a new product - Anew Derma Fill wrinkle cream, and they are advertising it as having the same ingredients as injectable fillers to smooth away wrinkle son your face. How is this a selling point? I understand the principle behind injecting a think gel into your deep wrinkles so they get plumped up from underneath (although I don't really get the appeal), but I fail understand how rubbing these same ingredients into your face acheives the same results. Maybe it is like spackle - you smooth it on and it settles into lines so when you put makeup over it your face looks smooth. Sounds attractive, especially if you have spackle skills on par with my own and the chunks fail to stick. Big globs of cream falling off your face and out of your wrinkles is probably what the company is going for.

CommmmCast

The new Comcast ads where people semi sing all about the merits of Comcast while walking through strangely illustrated streets is pleasing to me. I'm not sure that they are particularly effective as commericlas, but the chanting is strangely hypnotic and I like it. It's like a 30 second spot of meditation, except instead of pondering inner peace we are musing on digital cable and internet.And that's my type of meditation.

I'll Eat The Soup If I Can Paint My Kitchen

So, I'm sure you've seen the commercial where the guy gets dragged across the kitchen floor and into his chair to demonstrate his reluctance to try low sodium Campbell's soup. Well, can you please explain to me why everything in the ad aside from the soup (kitchen setting, tables, chairs, dishes, the people's clothes etc) is beige or white? Are they representing the excess of sodium in the world? Would regular colors distract from the soup? I don't understand.

You Know The Keys Lock, Right?

When I first saw the blackberry ad about "butt dialing" I thought it was pretty funny, but also a little ridiculous. I mean, there is a key lock, so if the whole flip thing really necessary? And then I got called three times in 20 minutes by my husband as he was walking around the store with his phone in his pocket. Now I think the Blackberry flip phone is a genius invention for those people out there who can't quite figure out how the key lock works.

This Castle May Not Sink Into The Swamp - Yet

There are two reasons I will watch Castle a few mores times. I watched it the first time because I like Nathan Fillion, and there was nothing else on, which overrode the fact that I had previously decided I wasn't interested (despite said love of nathan Fillion) because the previews looked vaguely lame. But I think I will give a few weeks to grow on me now for couple of things that were in the preview. The first was a scene between the main character and his daughter. They were having a perfectly normal conversation where he was explaining why the police had talked to him, but instead of wlaking together down the hallway, he was playfully pushing her so her socks slid her along the hardwood floor. To me this was such a natural scene of what a happy father daughter relationship is like, and in a small way it indicates an interest in portraying realistic characters. The rest of the character interaction was fairly typical and predictable, but this little glimpse showed promise to me. The second reason is that Fillions' character is a famous bestselling muder mystery author, and he plays in what is presumably a regular poker game with other famous authors - who are played by Steven J Cannell and James Patterson. And that may show just an insider conceit by the shows producers, but I choose to believe that it indicates a little reward to any viewers who may be fans of the genre the main character writes in. And since I am a fan of both the genre and insider jokes that I actually get, I will give this show a few more chances to really win me over. Although part of me hopes it fails because what I really want I Nathan Fillion working with Joss Whedon again - a role on Dollhouse perhaps?

Sweetie, Can You Show Mommy how To Work The Computer Again?

I really like the PC Windows ads that show little girls demonstrating how easy it is to use a digital camera and their computer. however, it is also a little scary, because they are doing things I don't know how to do myself, and I know that in a year (or three given the different ages of the girls) my daughter will be that age and doing things I don't know how to do.

American Idol - The Judges Picks

Praise Jesus, Tatiana "I just got a new accent" del Toro is out of there! Clearly the producers weighed the online backlash aginst the appeal of onscreen dramatics and made the right decision. Hooray! Beyond that, no big surprises really - even adding an extra 13th contestant wasn't that huge a shocker given the talent in the eight wild card hopefuls. I think the only thing that really surprised me is that they didn't vote in more girls to try and make it even - we are super boy heavy this season. But whatever, Tatiana is gone, and Megan Joy and Anoop are in, so I'm happy.

American Idol - Wild Card

Well, The judges certainly have their work cut out for them - there are a lot of good people in the wild card race that deserve another chance. Do they all deserve to be in the top twelve? I don't know, but maybe neither do all of the people who were voted in. That's why we need a few more weeks to vot and get to know the contestants. What I do know is that if tatiana makes the top twelve I will have to stop watching the show, and judging by all the polls I've seen indicating how much people hate her (one website poll voted her the most annoying contestant EVER), lot of other people feel the same way.

American Idol - The Third Set Of 12

Von Smith - He didn’t sound that good to me, but to be honest I had a really hard time hearing him clearly over the noise of the heat in my house no matter how loud I made the tv. I definitely didn’t like the song, but I’ll hold off totally judging the performance since I could hardly hear it,. The judges liked it and I‘m assuming they could hear it better than I could.
Taylor Vaifanua - SI thought she sang beautifully, but her liquid leggings didn’t go with her dress and the shininess was distracting. And apparently she sang a song she had already sung - which would be an issue is the audience had seen her sing it twice, but despite how much the judges like to insist on it being a singing competition and that the contestants have to shocase their range and versatility, it is basically a popularity contest, and we haven’t seen enough of the contestants yet to really know or care if she sang a repeat song.
Alex Wagner-Trugman - I did not like the beginning, but once her got to the chorus it was much better. He needed a snazzier outfit though - all he needed was a backpack and he would have been ready for school.
Arianna Afar - Another one who sang in a range that gets eaten by my heat - the notes I could hear sounded nice and strong. But she was super boring - just stood there and moved her arms out once or twice. Work on some stage presence, girl.
Ju’not Joyner - Sang a song I really like, but I did not like the arrangement at all - way too slow and kind of depressing. I think he should have sung something by Seal - he had that same kind of tone to his voice.
Kristen McNamara - Another song I hated the arrangement on - she changed too many notes on this song so the tune was almost unrecognizable. She sang well, I just didn’t like what she did with the song itself. Her dress was also not particularly flattering (what were the weird flowery things on the shoulders?), and it seemed more like something you would wear to a lunchtime bridal shower than on stage to rock out.
Nathaniel Marshall - This guy is quite a character, and you just have to like that he sang Meatloaf. I though he sang well, and while he has a personal style I don’t particularly love (lip piercing, constant headband) it suits him.
Felicia Barton - The second chance girl - she got kicked off originally and was brought back because another girl in the top 36 was really good friends with some producers and they had to ask her to leave to avoid controversy. I think she did a good job with her second shot - she sang nicely, performed well and chose a good outfit.
Scott Macintyre - Um, let’s see; he’s really talented, apparently a genius, and he’s blind. Think he’ll get some votes?
Kendall Beard - She didn’t sing that well, and what the heck was on her belt? She wore a really cute yellow dress, and I agree that it needed a belt to add a little extra style, but what was the big bunch of “flowers” hanging off of it? It looked like Spanish moss spray painted various colors. Ugly. And she has the distinctin of being the first performer I saw that was bad enough that Paula only commented on her looks. She also looks just like Tamra from The Real Housewives of the O.C. Not that that means anything, I just had to mention it (although that reveals that I watch The Real Housewives of the O.C., which is maybe something I wanted to keep to myself).
Jorge Nunez - The beginning was so boring! He had such a look of feigned earnestness on is face, blech. It picked up a little when he hit the chorus, but I was not moved.
Lil Rounds - Loved her dress! Seriously, does anyone know what it is because I want it (although I would probably need the top to be a different color, yellow doesn’t look as good on me as it did on her). She sang wonderfully (Mary J Blige anyone?), and I think she was one of the few who came across already professionally.

Too Fat To Fly?

So there is this ad for the Realize Gastric Band, basically advertising having a band put around your stomach so you lose weight. It features overweight people offering up the reasons they want to lose weight -for example, one guy wants to get healthy so he can do karate with his daughter. But one woman's reason is "to fly to Paris with her husband." Is this really something you can't do if you are fat? I totally understand not being able to run around and play with you kids - or worrying that you won't live long enough to see them grow up. But not traveling? I know it probably isn't all that comfortable to be on an airplane for a transAtlantic flight if you are the size of two people, but does it really prevent you from going altogether? I doubt it unless you are spending so much on food you can't afford the flight. Otherwise it's just an issue of letting your disappointment in yourself stop you from what you want to do. And that is cause for therapy - not a reason to have surgery.

Um, I'll Stick With The Donuts

I love Dunkin Donuts, and for that reason some of their commercials make me sad. They have been advertising their new egg white sandwiches, and I have to say I have never seen less appetizing food in a ommercials attempting to sell it. These things look flat and tasteless, and a bit like they are made with cardboard instead of pita or flatbread or whatever it is. They sound good, but they really need to work on the glamour shots of their food.


ps: interesting I have two donut titles in the past week - what am I thinking about?