Pop! Quiz: What will you be doing Superbowl Sunday?

I carry forward a tradition from my college days - mute the game, turn up the sound for the commercials.  Works with friends, or more likely this year, if I'm at home alone, follow along on a liveblog or two discussing these works of high commercial art.

Only thing standing in my way at this point, I haven't found a Pepsi display with the free 3-D glasses for the 2 minute Aliens vs. Monsters preview, the SoBe commercial, and the Chuck episode Monday night.  Can't find them anywhere. 

The Superbowl needed be about keeping track of who scored the most homeruns, it's all about the commericals, those ridiculous monuments to cunsumption and excess that are likely endangered species as our civilization falls apart around us.  Most of them get far more time spent on scripts, editing, and special effects than a TV show, more than some Hollywood movies! 

watching the puppy bowl! :-D

In the past 20 years, I've only watched 1 Super Bowl (the year Tampa Bay won). Traditionally, I use that day to go to a movie, since the theaters are usually pretty empty. Frozen River has been re-released in the wake of Melissa Leo's Oscar nomination, so I'll probably go see that.

That will be the first thing!  Then, puppy bowl for a bit, making sure to turn back to NBC in time for the new post-super bowl episode of The Office!

I will either be going to the theater or watching "West Side Story" at home! The Super Bowl means go out and see a musical to me!

Riverdance is playing Birmingham this weekend, and my partner and I will be there, front row center. 

Just started sending emails and telephone calls to the sponsors of Prayers for Bobby on Lifetime.  I made a deal with Del Shores that I will watch the movie if he helps me put an end to AMBUSH ADS!  They are the annoying promotions that the networks run during the action sequences of a film or TV show.  Del promised me that he will enlist the entire cast of Sordid Lives against this practice.  He is very upset that Logo has started doing this as well during his show.

Now I am not calling for an immediate boycott of the sponsors' products.  I am politely asking them to contact Lifetime through the news media and tell the network to stop using ambush ads.  As long as the sponsors make the public requests, even if it doesn't change Lifetime's policy, I will not boycott their products.  I am even telling them, think of the tremendous PR value in simply saying to the TV viewers, "Hey, we're on your side."

Now if their requests does not change Lifetime's policy, then I will boycott the network instead.  Lifetime, if you want to show us intelligent viewers a very touching and smart film, then do so with a pure TV screen, not one that is cluttered us with ambush ads.  You don't have to remind us of your promotions during the commercial breaks.  Our memories are pretty good.  So why insult our intelligence? 

 

 

The Tide is High, But I'm Holding on, I'm Gonna be Your Number One -- Blondie via John Holt

commercials for anything gay. What's that you say? I don't have to twitter absolutely everything? Are you sure?

"Other" isn't an option, so I'd figured I'd add it here. I'll be watching my boyfriend play hockey against his best (lesbian) friend in the gay hockey league here.