Editor's Note: Johnny Hatchett has been playing "Name that Stink" most of today - trying to figure out why his apartment smells like oil. So, in the place of a proper blog, here's an update on a few old ones.
(1) Somewhere, some baseball purist thinks that Albert Pujols is still an asshole.
Yup, Albert Pujols occasionally says things that make him seem like a sore-loser. &, yup, the sports mediasses spend considerably more time yapping about a few stray, spontaneous sentences than ... well, yapping about the following:
Pujols is off to the Dominican Republic on a humanitarian mission & he's staying clear of the celebration that the White House is throwing for the 2006 World Series Champions. Now, Pujols' snubbing of the President is not intentional, but I'm for it nonetheless.
(2) Johnny Hatchett is three weeks behind the times.
Yup, those Nash goggles are real. I hadn't read this article comparing Nash and Brees before writing my entry, but now I offer it as evidence of our loopy, cultural infatuation with these two men.
(3) Marijuana makes the world go round.
Thanks to an anonymous tip, we can now all enjoy the two hilarious abovetheinfluence.com print ads.
Spend some time at the site & witness the zaniness that your tax money pays for!
peace love gap
Johnny Hatchett
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
The President believes NFL players don't smoke pot. His wife just thinks they're damn sexy.
I love abovetheinfluence.com's print advertisements, which have been running in ESPN The Magazine. I wish they appeared somewhere online, but, alas, I can't find them. Perhaps someone out there in blogland has a scanner...& is willing to do the dirty-work.
Anyway, the advertisements have a goofy, sketched style; they kind of look like a single frame from a crappy Cartoon Network show.
Last week, the print ad showed a bummed out, pothead sprawled across the floor. His dog, wearing a leash & obviously in want of a good, old fashioned, American dog-walking says to the pothead, "You disappoint me." Maybe you just have to be there, with the stoner & his judgemental, talking dog, but that ad cracked me up.
This week, a not-so-cool dude gestures at a little, level-headed boy. Perhaps the boy is the pothead from the last issue's advertisement; now recovered, he's walking his dog. The not-so-cool dude says, "i smoke pot to impress the ladies." The little, level-headed, recovered pothead says, "try football."
The timing of the humor of these ads, even though they're static, print advertisements, is killer. So killer that I now reject Allen Ginsberg's poetry, especially when he writes, "I smoke pot every chance I get."
This issue's advertisment is particularly convincing, since:
- No football player smokes pot.
- No football player uses illegal drugs.
- There are is no correlation between playing football & physical injury.
- According to this blogger, you are considerably more likely to be seriously injured while smoking pot than you are while playing sports, such as basketball or football.
- Organized football is a lifetime sport in which, no matter your age or physical ability, you can participate.
- All young men have an equal chance of earning social prestige by playing football.
- Most young women are impressed by football players.
- According to abovetheinfluence.com, students who smoke pot are more likely to have done poorly in school.
- Many football players are eligible to receive scholar-athlete awards.
stay above the influence, &, as always, remember
peace love gap,
Johnny Hatchett
Anyway, the advertisements have a goofy, sketched style; they kind of look like a single frame from a crappy Cartoon Network show.
Last week, the print ad showed a bummed out, pothead sprawled across the floor. His dog, wearing a leash & obviously in want of a good, old fashioned, American dog-walking says to the pothead, "You disappoint me." Maybe you just have to be there, with the stoner & his judgemental, talking dog, but that ad cracked me up.
This week, a not-so-cool dude gestures at a little, level-headed boy. Perhaps the boy is the pothead from the last issue's advertisement; now recovered, he's walking his dog. The not-so-cool dude says, "i smoke pot to impress the ladies." The little, level-headed, recovered pothead says, "try football."
The timing of the humor of these ads, even though they're static, print advertisements, is killer. So killer that I now reject Allen Ginsberg's poetry, especially when he writes, "I smoke pot every chance I get."
This issue's advertisment is particularly convincing, since:
- No football player smokes pot.
- No football player uses illegal drugs.
- There are is no correlation between playing football & physical injury.
- According to this blogger, you are considerably more likely to be seriously injured while smoking pot than you are while playing sports, such as basketball or football.
- Organized football is a lifetime sport in which, no matter your age or physical ability, you can participate.
- All young men have an equal chance of earning social prestige by playing football.
- Most young women are impressed by football players.
- According to abovetheinfluence.com, students who smoke pot are more likely to have done poorly in school.
- Many football players are eligible to receive scholar-athlete awards.
stay above the influence, &, as always, remember
peace love gap,
Johnny Hatchett
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