The Truth Ads

During the last week I drove home to visit my dad and got to experience the joy of cable. However I was also exposed to the truth ads. These ads I feel are really aimed at the wrong people. They try to pass the blame of smoking off on someone else. In one add during a fake job interview a customer complains that using the tobacco companies product caused him to lose half his jaw. I can see how that would be upsetting, however I really feel like the truth ads try to take away the blame on the person buying the product. Its no secret that tobacco is bad for you, yet people continue to CHOOSE to purchase that product. The Truth needs to closer examine the fact that people are choosing to put that in their body. Does is suck that the product is on the market? I think it does, but people choose to use it, so Truth please refocus your ad campaign on education of those who use the products instead of blaming those who produce it.

Follow instructions carefully

For those of you who don't know what the above is let me tell you. Thats is a several thousand dollar plasma tv that clearly says on the box that it cannot be layed on its side for shipping. It is $80 to have that tv delivered to his home.

Music that brought me into the new year

With lots of free time on my hands now I've decided to share the music that I rung in the new year with:

A Long December - Counting Crows
A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Auld Lang Syne - Dropkick Murphys
New Years Day - U2
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
What are you doing new years eve? - Diana Krall
Happy New Year - ABBA
The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie