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Urgent Polls and Sappho
11/2/04 21:23So, 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"?
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"?
