One day last week, I was watching Adult Swim and this crazy commercial comes on, which is not all that weird since Adult Swim is very good at being strange for the sake of being strange.
The commercial is just a close up of some guys' eye and he's tweezing his eye brow ackwardly, pulling out several hairs here and there. And I'm thinking what does this mean? What is Adult Swim trying to tell me? This goes on for a full fifteen seconds. Then it fades to black and a message pops up that says, "It's amazing what you can accomplish on meth. Brought to you by the Sylvania Police Department."
And I think, "Meth will make me want to tweeze my eye brows? WTF, mate?"
I wish I had a copy of that commercial to share with you but I don’t want to call the Sylvania Police Department and ask for the video. What would I say? “That meth commercial was righteous! Can I have a copy?†or “I’m a blogger and I’ll help you spread your anti-meth message across the internet (to all four people who read my blog).â€
No, no I don’t think that would fly. They would probably think I was a tweaker who had pulled out most of my body hair long ago and wanted a copy of the commercial for sentimental reasons.
That fact is, meth is bad and I was very impressed the Sylvania Police Department would OK such an avant-garde piece that fit seamlessly into Adult Swim’s core message of “being weird is good†(just as long as your not on meth).
Lately, I hear alot of talk about meth. Newsweek did this huge piece on the drug, plus every time I look at any news source it seems another meth lab just got busted. In the mean time, Rolling Stone informs me that the federal government is escalating the war on drugs, specifically against marijuana, while the larger problem of meth and it's socio-economic consequences go largely unchecked by a police force stretched to thin to properly fight it. But what do I know, I’m just a crazy blogger.
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RFO - You realize how much trouble those pot smokers get into on a regular basis? They are a menace to society! And whoever heard of meth being worse than marijuana? Yet another example of the American government being perfectly in tune with the people. Anarchy. Sweet delicious revolt. Indeed.
Ha ha! Anarchy!
Meth update: I was watching Adult Swim the other day and now the Toledo Police Department is sponsoring an anti-meth PSA featuring Henry Rollins wrecking a car engine. Not as cool as the eyebrow tweezer. My big question is: Does anyone under 25 know who Henry Rollins is?
That would be no. And what the F is the ex-Black Flag singer doing in drug PSA's? Are you spoken word concerts not raking in big dough anymore, Hank?
We all know that the only reason they are escalating The War on Drugs with regards to pot is cause stoners are lazy.
Can you imagine the conversation between two stoners:
ST#1: "Dude, there is a cop."
ST#2: "Sh*t, what should we do? Run?"
ST#1: "F#ck That! I don't want to run."
ST#2: "But what about the cop?"
ST#1: "The who???"
ST#2: "THE COP!"
ST#1: "Yeah, Dude, I hate cops too. Now where is that joint?"
I don't know anything about meth, but if its like LSD, I am sure they think they can run like The Flash and fly like Superman.
Gosh...I just wasted five minutes writting this, and I have the last final of my BSEE career in a little over an hour.
[4] Look, i don't think the government has a problem with lazy. If it did, it would be escalating its war against the South. Besides, GWB just started his five week vacay. I can see two weeks, maybe three, but five? Now that's executive lazy.
I think we should test this Henry Rollins hypothesis. I'm willing to bet ($5!) we cant find anyone under 25 who knows who Black Flag is, or really cares about the aspects of a spoken word performance.
And Scotty, thanks for taking the time out of your busy morning to post a comment. Good luck on the exam and congrats on finishing your BSEE degree.