Smokin' Campaign Ad, Mr. Cain!

This ad gets pretty magical around the 40 second mark. I am America, one voice, united we stand... (Herman Cain then gives the creepiest creepster smile I've ever seen).



I see SNL spoofing this one in no time.

$10.25/pack

That's how much I paid today for a pack of Parliment Lights. I mostly buy cigarettes in a little convenience store in the building where I work. It's run by Indians or Pakistanis (I honestly have no idea), but depending on who is working that day depends on how much you pay for cigarettes. The young guy sold them for $9, the old guy sold them for $9.25, and I was used to a give-or-take quarter difference in price... until today. Now it's posted on a sign behind the register $10.25 for some goddam P-funks. I told the clerk, "that fucking sucks," like the intelligent, cost concious human being I am. He didn't seem to care.

What could all that added tax be contributing to? Is it going to help the homeless, because I still know a lot of bums asking me for, you guessed it, a cigarette. I only wish some of that tax was going to the TARP money given to banks! At those prices, all banks would be solvent in no time. I bet MANswers would know where the tax money goes...

Remember when I quit smoking? Only last year I was paying $7.75/pack. Those days are currently just a memory. My addiction has strengthened, and so has my cough.

How much does a pack of Parliments cost in your neck of the woods?

Sundays at 10pm

I support AMC, it's one of the few cable channels that I can get down with as a brand experience. Last year they rolled out Mad Men, which documents an Ad agency in 1960 NYC.

It's good! Anyone else watch it?

The most intriguing part for me so far (the second season began last Sunday) has been the breaking down of the eternal American chauvinistic character, which I think is in desperate need of a comeback/revision, considering it's been hijacked and somewhat represented as of late.