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Cziltang wanders the trackless wastes in search of truth, beauty and personal enlightenment. He had tried to be self-sufficient, growing his own ideas, but they withered and died in the great intellectual drought that gripped the land in his youth. One day, as he gazed at the parched landscape around him, he realized that somewhere there must be ideas growing. Somewhere, rational discourse must still survive. Since that day, he has searched for a mythical land of fields and forests of living ideas. Now and again he finds a thought or two in the rubble of an occasional deserted outpost of civilization. Its a hard way to live and its not much of a life, but that's just how it is, out here in the Ratlands |
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Cultural Wasteland...
link Given that I usually think the commercials are the best part of whatever I'm watching on TV, it should be no surprise that I really appreciate a good, clever (or sometimes just downright stupid) commercial. I still remember Alka-Seltzer commercials from the mid-60's (I think they may have been in black-and-white, but I'm not sure, as my parents didn't get a color television until after I left home in the late 70's) and the Benson and Hedges cigarette commercials (101 mm long instead of 100's for all you old smokers out there). My current favorites: The Volkwagen commercial that shows a whole bunch of square things and the Beetle at the end. There is a bottled drink commercial (maybe Snapple? I've only seen it once) where the bottles play the part of tourists in a re-enactment of the running of the bulls at Pamplona and the bulls are played by guinea pigs with fake horns.by Cziltang Posted: Wednesday, May 14 2003 05:28:48 PM |
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