tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1489889624708943138..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Just Couldn't WaitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35688969834852117912012-12-17T07:37:52.462-08:002012-12-17T07:37:52.462-08:00They all look drugged, there on that fake snow. &...They all look drugged, there on that fake snow. "For sure those pure blondes came out of a bottle, and it wasn't a Smirnoff bottle."<br /><br />(We felt bad for the stuffed albino reindeer.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49613080316102001782012-12-16T08:48:11.308-08:002012-12-16T08:48:11.308-08:00I'm particularly unnerved by the Lebensborn in...I'm particularly unnerved by the Lebensborn in the Smirnoff advert.<br /><br />"The Century of the Self" is a must see.<br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15928797324694516712012-12-16T02:20:30.729-08:002012-12-16T02:20:30.729-08:00Colin,
Ditto here on all points save the original...Colin,<br /><br />Ditto here on all points save the original locus of the loss.<br /><br />(Christmas of course was always THE worst time.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63424212426371593922012-12-15T22:17:01.017-08:002012-12-15T22:17:01.017-08:00Martini & Rossi
Elixir of the ancients
listen...Martini & Rossi<br /><br />Elixir of the ancients<br />listen to their whisperings<br />through their careful wrappings--<br />is it Martini & Rossi?<br />on the rocks?<br />so dry so thirsty.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30733233748656604712012-12-15T17:27:46.433-08:002012-12-15T17:27:46.433-08:00♪♫ What made Milwaukee famous, made a loser out of...♪♫ What made Milwaukee famous, made a loser out of me ..♫♪♪<br /><br />My father was an alcoholic Nothing glamorous or classy about it<br /><br />Now much of the scotch in Scotland has been upgraded (and up-priced) for a luxury market<br /><br />Something of a reality check right now so far as disposable income goes for many here. Better get used to it. I'd like to think of it as an opportunity to rethink spending habits. Ho ho ho!Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83436682631581706432012-12-15T14:08:39.050-08:002012-12-15T14:08:39.050-08:00Linking mass marketing to unconscious desires wasn...Linking mass marketing to unconscious desires wasn't built in a day. In a brilliant BBS documentary called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUzwRCyTSo" rel="nofollow">The Century of the Self</a>, Adam Curtis traces the story of modern advertising back to Sigmund Freud and several of his relatives and acolytes.<br /><br />The first figure in Curtis's version of the history is Freud's nephew Edward Bernays. "An honest boy when I knew him," uncle Sigmund later said of Bernays. "I know not how far he has become americanized."<br /><br />Then there is Ernst Dichter.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21541706" rel="nofollow">The Economist: Ernst Dichter, Freud, motivational research and "retail therapy"</a>.<br /><br />Once prosperity overcame America in the 1950s, nobody needed all that product, but the system depended on somebody buying it anyway, so...<br /><br />Freud, for his part, writing to the British psychiatrist Ernest Jones in the 1930s, opined that "America is a gigantic mistake".<br /><br />Freud was no adman of course, but his emigré disciples in the American advertising industry took his basic idea about the role of the irrational in human behaviour, made it feel at home in a suburban consumer focus group, and the rest is that long lost weekend mentioned above.<br /><br />An interesting condensed history of the mind control strategies demonstrated in this branch of the ad industry can be seen in this collection of <a href="http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/alcohol-ads" rel="nofollow">alcohol adverts, 1840-2000</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58032837299034542382012-12-15T12:10:08.725-08:002012-12-15T12:10:08.725-08:00Independent research finds it notable that America...Independent research finds it notable that American liquor ads undergo a sea change in the early 1950s, from which point the subliminal signaling becomes more complicated. Class markers enter the picture, then sublimated sexual signals. In this abbreviated survey the change occurs with image #5, those disembodied phantom hands preparing the sixty year lost weekend at the end of which humans dwelling in this damaged land can't wake up from the nightmare which is their ersatz secular history, i.e. the only kind of history they will ever have.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com