man meat, and other advertising devices.

i've wanted to blog about the "restore your manhood" hummer ad. really i have. however, every time i try to put coherent language together that describes the infinite stupidity of the commerical, i just end up hearing a ringing in my ears and seeing bright red dots floating around in my line of vision. i think that's my brain telling me it *will* short-circuit if i think about the ad for one more second.

thankfully, jaynie k passed along this beautiful evisceration of the ad from mighty pony girl, which pretty much covers it. to wit:

It's beyond the boundaries of broadcast decency to actually show the man in the doctor's office being told that he's impotent, or that he has a low sperm count, or showing him gazing forlornly at a small mountain of male enhancement pills that have proven ineffective and thus relegated to the trash. Instead, they show him in the checkout line: purchasing a block of flacid, tasteless tofu. This is a man whose penis is in trouble.

clearly in trouble. just like humanity, for allowing a society in which people get paid obscene amounts of money to come up with this brain-cell-annihilating idiocy.

mighty pony girl also throws in an extra treat, an august j. pollak cartoon that takes on the previous incarnation of the hummer ad, burger king's bizarro "men eat meat" musical theater piece/ad. men? "meat"? pirouetting? nothing gay about that.