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The Unbearable Heaviness of Blogging (and celebrity genital news, Part 2.)

caringiscool — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:26:06 +0000

Behind all the glitz and the glamour of blogging is news. Yes, we blog from solid gold, heart-shaped jacuzzis in castles made of cocaine and cashmere, but we are blogging about actual THINGS that are happening in the world, to real people. Are they people we know, or even like? Not usually. But they are real, and things definitely seem to be happening to them, so we have to tell you those stories.

Unfortunately, not all stories can be triumphs of the human body like the Steven Tyler story. Sometimes the news is about human suffering. While these stories aren’t (5) fist-pumpers (Gross, Kira. Sorry), they are real life, and they remind us about the darker side of the world around us. This is a very important story that I have been following super closely all week.

Nobody Wants To See A Low-Budget Trojan Commercial

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:37:53 +0000

The most “ahhh!” thing about this Trojan commercial in which a guy gives his girlfriend gonorrhea for her birthday (imaginative!) is the fact that it seems like it was created by a high school AV club. Spend lots of money on your commercials, Trojan!:

“As a general advertising rule, the more intense the scare tactics you use to sell your product, the more expensive the ad needs to look.” — Don Draper. Also, I hope the actress got paid extra to say “I am a gonorrhea girl” on TV. (Via Adrants.)

This Is How They Do Anti-STD PSAs In Belgium

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:11:46 +0000

Technically, this STD-awareness ad from Belgium doesn’t make sense in any kind of “useful information that could prevent STDs way,” but it is funny (especially the twist at the end). And, um, while it’s not as graphic as it seems like it’s going to be at first, it’s probably not really safe for work:

On the one hand, wow, Belgians are so much more open and cool about things than we puritanical Americans are! On the other hand, yuck! (Via Adrants.)