2019.02.04
Like I said, there was a weird-amount of robot themed ads. Wonder if it taps into our anxieties about automation?
Anyway, for me the most memorable ad was the Bud Light / Game of Thrones crossover - for people annoyed by the "beer for normal folks not the effete elite" of the original series, seeing it get wiped out by cleansing dragon fire was terrific - and the thing was so unapologetically violent and Thrones-y -- kind a surreal and nightmarish, but not in a bad way:
(FOLLOWUP: HBO said the Bud Knight had to die)
Slate in 2005 on The Lamest Dynasty in Sports.
Oh, also Burger King just straight up showing "Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger" was artsy and nuts.
When a bird is buried, the worms have their revenge.
Also, final(?) sportsball note... Boston "Beat LA" twice in half a year? Ha.
I'm not telegraphing anything. No, no, no. There's a difference. When President Obama pulled out of Iraq in theory we had Iraq. In other words, we had Iraq. We never had Syria because President Obama never wanted to violate the red line in the sand. So we never had Syria. I was the one that actually violated the red line when I hit Syria with 59 Tomahawk missiles, if you remember. But President Obama chose not to do that. When he chose not to do that, he showed tremendous weakness. But we didn't have Syria whereas we had Iraq. So when he did what he did in Iraq, which was a mistake.