Am I a media whore for watching TV or a media whore for watchning tv and eduring the commercials. Despite my distaste for commercials, do they impact my decisions? While at the Giants game Friday, they passed out pom poms to fans. Alas, there was no sponsor for the pom poms. They were just nice, decent, orange pom poms. Although I suspect that they were unsponsored due to a breakdown in the sponsorship process- It reminded me of the good old days of going to a baseball game and getting free shit with minimal marketing value. Wide open outfields with no advertisments to be seen. Seeing the A's in the late 80's and early 90's were some of my most cherised times. Do the children of today enjoy the games such as I did, are they able to see past the constant comercial outpouring of mind boggling chaos. Back when I was a kid we would get a glove for goign to the game. It was just a vinyl one. But it provided us months of fun use. Today we get a magnet for our kids. What fun that magnet is.
The media is fucking up sociiety more than anyone likes to admit. I like to belive that I am a modern baseball fan. I go to the game, I dont by a fucking drink at the game. I drink before and after but not doing the game. I eat before the game beacuse of the outragious prices chargedin the stadium. I get tickest that arent the best in the house, but rather give me a good value and good people. I run to the bathrrooom as fast as possible so that I can watch the entire game. I am not in the club section watching the game on tvs while the game is played below us.
Friday- I drink beforethe game. Take the Bus to the stadium. Get into the gate. Take my free pom pom. I go to the ticket upgrade window and upgrade my 31 dollar seats to 45 dollar seats. I spoiled myself this game and got good seats........I get one beer because I want to slowly enjoy such beer. I guess I can cheat just this once.
The game is great. Besides the contstant flow of advertisments we enjoy the game. Bathroom breaks were abundant for me- too much beer before the game. We see some sponsored entertainment, but thankfully i never pay attention to the sponsor. THE GIANTS WIN!!!!!! I am off to the bar. Kim and I offf to the bar down the street....downn...downnn..doowwwnnn.. OK
We are at the good old bar. There is no marketing to tell us what to do. Well aside from the standard issue sponsored napkins. I chooose bud light beacuase I like bud light. I like that. We got shots of Casalores because thats what i like. The other people get Petrone because they think they are bad asses. In the end the dumb ass paid way to much. Granted Petrone is very good, but you could tell the guys got it because they wanted to impress their ladies.
Advertising is the end of the world as we know it. Too bad those advertisers make jobs. jobs and more jobs. Maybe they are all nessesary beacuse of the jobs they create.
Such forth that all those advertisments get put out everytwheree. They inundate us forcing us to hear the message of the MEDIA man.
The questions is do we continue down this path. Or do we try to cut the man off and get back to a society where people thought about their products with input from places such as consumer reports. Rather than the blam bling advertising that we see.
Fuck its a hard challenge that has become part of our socieity. I hate ads, I hate these mammtoh influxes of spam into our lifes. But it is here to stay. Thank you Suicidegirls for letting me have art work in place of banner adds. Such is rare these days.
The media is fucking up sociiety more than anyone likes to admit. I like to belive that I am a modern baseball fan. I go to the game, I dont by a fucking drink at the game. I drink before and after but not doing the game. I eat before the game beacuse of the outragious prices chargedin the stadium. I get tickest that arent the best in the house, but rather give me a good value and good people. I run to the bathrrooom as fast as possible so that I can watch the entire game. I am not in the club section watching the game on tvs while the game is played below us.
Friday- I drink beforethe game. Take the Bus to the stadium. Get into the gate. Take my free pom pom. I go to the ticket upgrade window and upgrade my 31 dollar seats to 45 dollar seats. I spoiled myself this game and got good seats........I get one beer because I want to slowly enjoy such beer. I guess I can cheat just this once.
The game is great. Besides the contstant flow of advertisments we enjoy the game. Bathroom breaks were abundant for me- too much beer before the game. We see some sponsored entertainment, but thankfully i never pay attention to the sponsor. THE GIANTS WIN!!!!!! I am off to the bar. Kim and I offf to the bar down the street....downn...downnn..doowwwnnn.. OK
We are at the good old bar. There is no marketing to tell us what to do. Well aside from the standard issue sponsored napkins. I chooose bud light beacuase I like bud light. I like that. We got shots of Casalores because thats what i like. The other people get Petrone because they think they are bad asses. In the end the dumb ass paid way to much. Granted Petrone is very good, but you could tell the guys got it because they wanted to impress their ladies.
Advertising is the end of the world as we know it. Too bad those advertisers make jobs. jobs and more jobs. Maybe they are all nessesary beacuse of the jobs they create.
Such forth that all those advertisments get put out everytwheree. They inundate us forcing us to hear the message of the MEDIA man.
The questions is do we continue down this path. Or do we try to cut the man off and get back to a society where people thought about their products with input from places such as consumer reports. Rather than the blam bling advertising that we see.
Fuck its a hard challenge that has become part of our socieity. I hate ads, I hate these mammtoh influxes of spam into our lifes. But it is here to stay. Thank you Suicidegirls for letting me have art work in place of banner adds. Such is rare these days.