Comments on: Take heart http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/ Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: LLA http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2580 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:22:10 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2580 I had not seen/heard any of this prior to coming across it here, but it did my heart good... I had not seen/heard any of this prior to coming across it here, but it did my heart good…

]]> by: Editrix http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2565 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:47:42 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2565 Ez, I'd just seen that Bostonist post, but I'm glad you included it as well as the <em>Dig</em> one. Tangent: the mini interview with the president of Wainwright Bank (our bank, which we lurve), has this to say: <blockquote>"In a small bank like ours, I do everything, including shutting off the lights and making sure the coffeepot's off."</blockquote> I hope he knows that he (or one of his staff) has been remiss in turning off the flat-screen TV in the little coffee lounge at the Davis Square branch. Doug's had to use his TV-B-Gone remote to turn it off on the weekend! Ez, I’d just seen that Bostonist post, but I’m glad you included it as well as the Dig one. Tangent: the mini interview with the president of Wainwright Bank (our bank, which we lurve), has this to say:

“In a small bank like ours, I do everything, including shutting off the lights and making sure the coffeepot’s off.”

I hope he knows that he (or one of his staff) has been remiss in turning off the flat-screen TV in the little coffee lounge at the Davis Square branch. Doug’s had to use his TV-B-Gone remote to turn it off on the weekend!

]]> by: 2fs http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2564 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:39:53 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2564 Sue: I don't particularly support McDonald's - but (a) as Ezra says, the Hummer has a lot of symbolic weight, and for some of the same reasons as fur: it's an overpriced, useless luxury item that spits contempt in the face of everyone else. In fact, that's one of its main selling points. And an individual purchaser of a McDonald's burger is doing nowhere near the harm to the planet that an individual purchaser of a Hummer is. (Not to mention it's a lot likelier that the Shins guys were actual McD's customers than Hummer drivers.) FWIW, I wrote a slightly nasty but somewhat thoughtful e-mail to Modernista (and tell me they're the sort of idiots who want to insist that the screamer's part of their name...bet they lowercase it too...). Probably not a damned thing will come of it. Do they have a conscience left to prick? Sue: I don’t particularly support McDonald’s - but (a) as Ezra says, the Hummer has a lot of symbolic weight, and for some of the same reasons as fur: it’s an overpriced, useless luxury item that spits contempt in the face of everyone else. In fact, that’s one of its main selling points. And an individual purchaser of a McDonald’s burger is doing nowhere near the harm to the planet that an individual purchaser of a Hummer is. (Not to mention it’s a lot likelier that the Shins guys were actual McD’s customers than Hummer drivers.)

FWIW, I wrote a slightly nasty but somewhat thoughtful e-mail to Modernista (and tell me they’re the sort of idiots who want to insist that the screamer’s part of their name…bet they lowercase it too…). Probably not a damned thing will come of it. Do they have a conscience left to prick?

]]> by: Ezra http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2563 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:54:42 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2563 I suspect that Hummer is like fur; there are probably equally egregious instances of animal cruelty, but fur has a much deeper symbolic resonance. Also, Modernista!, the ad agency for Hummer (and lots of other shitty clients) are local shits. See http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2006/03/08/local_ad_agency_wants_you_to_help_with_hype.php and http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/a76dbf1d-6e73-4b91-a984-6eb14e3ad36e/articleID/cf8ca5fe-9675-46a1-bb0b-2d7f16e8680f/nodeID/4b1339d1-be3a-44a2-be8b-1484963a003a I suspect that Hummer is like fur; there are probably equally egregious instances of animal cruelty, but fur has a much deeper symbolic resonance.

Also, Modernista!, the ad agency for Hummer (and lots of other shitty clients) are local shits. See
http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2006/03/08/local_ad_agency_wants_you_to_help_with_hype.php
and
http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/a76dbf1d-6e73-4b91-a984-6eb14e3ad36e/articleID/cf8ca5fe-9675-46a1-bb0b-2d7f16e8680f/nodeID/4b1339d1-be3a-44a2-be8b-1484963a003a

]]> by: Sue http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2562 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:36:02 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/take-heart/#comment-2562 Didn't the Shins have a song in a McDonald's commercial? I don't get the big difference between shilling for Mickey D's and shilling for Hummer. Lots of rock bands have also had their tunes used by beer companies, and even recorded "This Bud's for you" jingles. If any of 125's artists wanted to have a song featured in a Hummer ad, this Prius owner wouldn't try to stop 'em. Corporate America is all pretty much of a piece, if you ask me. Didn’t the Shins have a song in a McDonald’s commercial? I don’t get the big difference between shilling for Mickey D’s and shilling for Hummer. Lots of rock bands have also had their tunes used by beer companies, and even recorded “This Bud’s for you” jingles. If any of 125’s artists wanted to have a song featured in a Hummer ad, this Prius owner wouldn’t try to stop ‘em. Corporate America is all pretty much of a piece, if you ask me.

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