And looking at the series at Amazon, I guess I now know where E's pseud comes from!
Mmm. Wife soup. I must've done good.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Nov 30, 2006 8:09:37 am PST #3784 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 30, 2006 8:10:03 am PST #3785 of 10007
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
They make me want to inject the mouthy teens in the ads with tobacco so they'll start smoking and get lung cancer.
Tom Scola - Nov 30, 2006 8:10:18 am PST #3786 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Scholastic is also putting out a full-color version of Bone. They've only put out the first few volumes so far, though.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2006 8:11:19 am PST #3787 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
See Amych's point above, Megan -- I'd forgotten that the current individual editions out now are colorized (the original series was done in black & white).
Cashmere - Nov 30, 2006 8:12:11 am PST #3788 of 10007
Now tagless for your comfort.
A lecture or ad on the devil tobacco? Being stuck in a non-smoking environment (like an airport?) Want. Now.
This one makes me sorry I've ever looked at a cigarette.
shrift - Nov 30, 2006 8:15:08 am PST #3789 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There was an article in the Times the other day - apprarently that is precisely the effect of the anti-teen-smoking ad blitzes.
Admittedly I am a punkass little shit, and anyone earnestly telling me to do anything usually will provoke in me a desire to do the opposite.
But when I get over that initial reaction, I still feel like most anti-drug campaigns are just so... unctuous, deliberately misleading, and just plain lame that I want to stand outside their studio swigging a bottle of tequila, chain-smoking Marlboros, rolling joints, and wearing an "I Run A Meth Lab, Ask Me How!" T-shirt. With my pimp.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2006 8:18:08 am PST #3790 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There was an article in the Times the other day - apprarently that is precisely the effect of the anti-teen-smoking ad blitzes.
All I could think of when I read that article was that subplot in Thank You For Smoking (book, not movie) -- the ad they [they = the tabacco lobby group] commissioned ended up with the tagline "Everything your parents told you about smoking is right."
Trudy Booth - Nov 30, 2006 8:18:10 am PST #3791 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
But when I get over that initial reaction, I still feel like most anti-drug campaigns are just so... unctuous, deliberately misleading, and just plain lame
YES!
The only one I've ever liked is the kid who talks about how he used to think his big brother could do anything but now bro just lives in his parents basement and gets stoned. I appreciated that ad.
Of course, the best anti-drug campaign ever is The Osbornes.
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2006 8:21:03 am PST #3792 of 10007
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I want to run through those horrifying medievalists who are fighting tobacco. All I see with them is "Only clueless dorks fight against tobacco! Run, run far away!" They give a bad name to historical recreationists everywhere.
Nutty - Nov 30, 2006 8:23:04 am PST #3793 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There were a bunch in MA when I was in college that were rough stuff -- first-person testimonials about How Smoking Messed UP My Body.
Most notable was one by a 22 year old woman with emphysema. I mean, when you think about it, she'd have to be smoking 20 cigarettes at once, and continuously since birth for that emphysema not to have some other (genetic, e.g.) factor, but seeing a 22 year old woman with narsty lungs and O2 in a tube and a thousand meds to take daily tends to ram the point home.
And then there was the local-interest one, which was about how OBVIOUSLY smoking is addictive, because only an addict or a nut would stand outside in the freezing cold in the middle of winter to smoke.