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Politician: “How do we engage a young audience in the message of safe sex?”
N00b: “I know we’ll create a design competition around a completely useless object like a condom tin!”
BUT please vote for my cats, so I can use the $1000 of winnings to adopt an awesome new pet (probably a chinchilla) and give back to the SPCA. I promise when you register to vote they won’t send you any emails after the confirmation, it’s the Australian Govt after all. I don’t think they even know what spamming is.
I saw this ad in Hawaii, it was weird seeing ads on television as I watch all my news, tv series, movies and also advertising on computers these days. Unfortunately most of the ads which I saw in Hawaii were for constipation medication. This medical ad however caught my attention.
It’s easy for me to have very strong opinions about the medicare reform bill, when I have an interest in American politics and come from a country which is small enough to cover its citizens pretty well.
This ad tells it how it is; people with too much money and power are stopping every day people getting the medical attention they need. Americans with statuses about not wanting to pay for other people health insurance drive me crazy! Don’t they realise that they are the lower to middle class citizens that this bill will help? I don’t know all the answers to health insurance, but I do know that if you believe everything the insurance companies are saying, you should also watch Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko’… and then go out and find some real facts.
When James found out that our flatmate had the first season of West Wing on DVD he decided it was imperative that I watch it. Our relationship could only survive if I loved it a much as he did. So we watched it and I liked it. I can not describe how ecstatic he was the next night when I asked if we could watch the second episode.
Three months and five and a half seasons later, I felt that same joy… OMGOSH it’s Lawrence Lessig on West Wing! Probably not my pick for an actor, but I guess West Wing is set in Back to the Future, where most things except Donna’s turtleneck jumpers are timeless.
Professor on the show:
And so is “fame” made: My story is on the West Wing because I was at Harvard — not because the brilliance of my intervention had been noted and reviewed, but because I was teaching talented kids who would prove to be important. Indeed, so has the most important of my “fame” been made: Did Justice Jackson pick me to be his special master because he had determined I was the perfect mix of Holmes and Ed Felten? No, I was picked because I was a Harvard Law Professor teaching the law of cyberspace. Remember: So is “fame” made.
Interesting modern take on Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”. Although it lacks the rawness which made the original infamous:
“who copulated ecstatic and insatiate with a bottle of beer a sweetheart a package of cigarettes a candle and fell off the bed, and continued along the floor and down the hall and ended fainting on the wall with a vision of ultimate cunt and come eluding the last gyzym of consciousness”
Listen to “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg read outloud or read it for yourself at poets.org >
