Jezebel
I love the writers at Jezebel.com. Part of the gawker/defamer empire, this Lady-Biznezz focused site is a funny and interesting watchdog, calling out all the hateful woman hating snark (often on their sister – or brother – sites) that seems to be over 500 percent of the web. At the same time, they got bite of their own. But they’re never mean.
Anyway I saw this morning they linked to a Dove ad thing that for some reason (they pretty much cover the reasons, so I don’t need to go into it too much here) is weirdly compelling. I have the same mixed feelings about the Dove campaign as everyone else (again, they go into it) but this is just a few minutes where a commercially funded, ideologically tricky campaign yielded something that feels like a little spark of connective humanity. Especially after yesterday, where I spent the better part of wakingness watching the news from Gaza and sinking into the despair that will tend to cause.
HERE it is. Well done director Pinny Grylls (awesome name.)
Still can’t really talk, but at least able to kind of squeak out consonants. Went out this morning, bought the paper, and squeaked to the nice lady at my coffee place that I wanted a hot chocolate.
“What?” she says.
“ht chlt.”
“Aw, you poor thing.”
“Tks.”
January 12th, 2009 at 12:50 am
gaza. nothing makes me wish that we all just lived inside of our own personal little virtual reality tubes like the fucking matrix or something. we could all just live in peace in our own little bubbles instead of having real world confrontations. each day my faith in humanity is restored by the fact that people are still silly enough to buy shitty exercise machines, payoff nigerian internet scammers and get mauled by Gu Gu the panda. I figure everything is all good as long as the world is as ridiculous as it seems sometimes.