Urgent Polls and Sappho

[eredien]

So, I'm taking a break from my thesis and reading an article about Anne Carson, poet and academic, as cultural icon invoked in The L Word. (A new Showtime program about lesbians (why am I reading about this show when I haven't even seen it and most likely never will? I've always read more about TV than I watch it)).

And I'm reading happily about Sappho and poems featuring Geryon, and then in the middle of all this pseudo-academic bliss, I see this ad.

You know it's a Serious Ad because it's in red, white, and blue, uses a sans-serif font (designers like to think they're less pretentious than fonts with 'feet'), with a photograph of a Famous Person looking Really Serious. Oh, and it doesn't blink or tell you to 'click on the monkey and win a prize'.

The text:
Vote in Urgent Poll
Do you support Mel Gibson?
Vote Now, Click Here!

How, in the name of the fluffy clouds in the blue sky, is that "Urgent"?

Comments

[mithent.livejournal.com]

He needs to know whether he should enter the Presidential race? After all, we need more movie stars going into politics.