Comic for Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Posted: 7:18 am, Friday, June 23rd

A quick comment on the Bud Light ad over Ron's shoulder. Bud Light is consistently responsible for the worst ad campaigns by a major company on the New York City subway system. About 95% of the time, the Bud Light ad campaign has moderately attractive couples leaning up against an oversized bottle of Bud Light, and that's about it. The current campaign goes so far as to add a ludicrous tagline to the mix - "Always Worth It in New York City." (Or its Spanish alternative.) First off, "Always Worth It" is a lame tagline. I mean, you've got Budweiser, they're the King of Beers (they're not, clearly, Guinness is, but whatever, it's their marketing department). Bud Light can only come up with "Always Worth It"? Wow. Second, "Always Worth It in New York City"? It's not uncommon to be charged upwards of five dollars for a bottle of Bud Light in New York City, and these are at the bars *I* go to, which aren't exactly swank. (Three or four is more common, but five is really not out of the ordinary. I prefer places that charge two, which do exist.) Bud Light is *never* worth five dollars. Not even in New York City. And it's certainly never once in its Goddamn existence been worth the six seventy-five they want for it in Shea.

Little Sis's line in the first panel of Diesel Sweeties yesterday killed me.

The Roots's upcoming album sounds good. You know what I've been listening to this week? N.W.A. I don't know, either.

I linked to a Rolling Stone article on the right using the politics of fear and hatred in regards to gay marriage the other day, and at the end of the article was a brief bit from Dan Savage of Savage Love. Well, they posted the entire interview, which can be read here if you're so inclined.

Competition for today's nightmare was fierce, but this chick wins over NASCAR Scrappin' Mama or someone like that due to the massive picture of number 8's car with the bald eagle with the American flag built into his face that someone put in the comments. Wow. Extra points for her background picture not tiling correctly.

bullfrog

$5 Bud Lights are worth it when each third one is free, they are served by some smokin' Irish immigrant, and some fat bartender insists on yelling "Wolverine" whenever one is purchased.

Otherwise, I would rather drink out of puddles on 8th Avenue.

One of Reggie's biggest pet peeves: people from the NY/NJ area who go to college in Boston and return devout Red Sox fans. Did you just start watching baseball in college that you suddenly became a Red Sox fan? I guess this is the Boston college culture that good old Dicky railed against so often, but, unfortunately, it has followed the migrant students back here. Annoying.

Red Sox = Suck.

I don't even think they're five bucks at Sruff's, man. And I'm being called Wolverine at bars again - every time an X-Men movie comes out, I get called Wolverine by bartenders for the next three months.

What, did your friend become a Sox fan all of a sudden?

A disproportionate number of wannabe lawyers who went to school in Boston and returned to this area for law school seemed to have this loathsome disease.

I remember a similar plague that went around the NY/NJ area back in the late-90s, turning lifelong (or, more accurately, decade-long) Mets fans into Yankees fans in droves.

Different situation. No history of hate there. Like moving from France to Belgium. Not like moving from Pakistan to India.

I'm betting these super-fans of yours in your law review class don't exactly have a history of hate towards the Sox. Or a history of thinking. But, hey, when you've won a Series in recent years, you get the bandwagoners. You may remember that from all the Yankee fans that sprouted up out of nowhere... six years ago.

Nope, these were those Red Sox fans who were "fans" before the World Series, most likely because they were attracted to the "poor us" attitude (not all too unsimilar to Cubs fans). Odd dynamic that you would have "bandwagoners" on a train of pity.

Dude, easy on the Bud Light ads. The subway ones may suck, but the ad people DID in fact create the Real Men of Genius ad campaign. Still hilarious after years and years (my favorite is the Taco Salad one).

Yeah, the Real Men of Genius ads are great, but until you just mentioned it, I actually thought they were a Miller campaign. Bud's masterstroke, for me, is still wassssssssssssup. God, that kills me.

Happy Birthday, Bullfrog!!! (a day early, I believe?)

Two. But thanks, MNP. I did a good job of not making a huge deal of it this year, unlike all years prior to this one. Celebratin' by hitting the GYC in a few hours - I'll be the one the bartenders are calling Wolverine.

Happy early birthday from me, too, although I hope to tell you this in person in a few hours...

Speaking of budweiser ads, they've got a new one airing in st. louis (thank you, MLB extra innings!) with Joe buck talking about how much he loves and misses his dad. I got very teary, although I suppose it doesn't have all that much to do with beer.

2.0 and I are having some adventures in typefaces the past few days as she's pulling a Pete and making me make her some business cards (self-reference, whoooo!), and we've found the LinoType site to be pretty handy. Well, Uni Watch linked there yesterday because they give a font breakdown of World Cup jerseys, which I find interesting.

http://www.linotype.com/2710/footbaljerseyfont s.html

Incidentally, I love all the articles about how Bruce Arena needs to be fired. A good chunk are written by people who have never mentioned soccer before. The message I take from this is "don't expect us to care about your sport, but for God's sake, don't suck at it." (I am of no opinion on Mr. Arena - I've followed the Cup pretty closely, but have seen all of half an hour of it live.)