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November 14th, 2007
09:15 pm
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[INFOHAZARD]
WARNING: Probably safe for work. NOT safe for brain.


I am sorely tempted to say that if this television commercial [video] doesn't make your skin crawl, there is something fundamentally wrong with you as a human being.*

I admit I could be oversensitive here because my wife is a chef. But this one [video] seems just as creepy.

It's not the violence so much as the context. These aren't action-movie bad guys being sniped or exploded half a football field from the camera. They are people built up as people, and the fourth-wall breaking provides just enough cognitive dissonance to let the consequences hit you between the eyes. They really are very effective ads.

If you don't have the time or stomach for the videos themselves, here's some brief background info.

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* This isn't as hyperbolic as I'd like it to be. We really are not meant to be desensitized to the extent that such well-done simulation of human suffering can be brushed off. When our empathy atrophies enough to do so, we have become monsters. And, dude. I say that as a dragon.

Current Location: ~spiral
Current Mood: disturbed
Current Music: Steely Dan, "Do It Again"
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April 30th, 2007
07:13 pm
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 "Locked fast within a time when he no longer exists ..."
[Infohazard!!]
WARNING: Click links at risk of own sanity

In other news, "Garfield" once actually ran a dramatic storyline.*

Seriously. There isn't a punchline in the whole six-day arc.**

I advise my readers to brace themselves before clicking ... younger or more sensitive readers should consider skipping the strips entirely. They will alter your brain for life. This is red pill territory here, and when your compulsion to scrub your eyeballs subsides, you will forever after mourn the loss of the calm, predictable universe you thought you knew.

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* Their archives don't seem to have any navigation functionality. Control-click (Mac users: command-click) on each of my links in turn to read the whole thing without lots of back-and-forthing.
** Astute readers may argue that this phenomenon is indistinguishable from Garfield's usual content. However, in this case it's deliberate!

Current Location: ~calorg
Current Mood: shocked
Current Music: "Sonero de Bailadores," Internet radio
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