Super Bore Ads

The game was great. The ads? I went in with low expectations, as the clever and witty ads of the 90s gave way to tacky and vulgar commercials long ago. Those expectations were met. I found most ads to be beneath comment, with a few openly sexists and nothing approaching the level of the IDS cat-heading ad, let alone the Apple 1984 ad.

Of the meager bunch, the Simpsons Coke ad stood out for very good animation and for being surprisingly classy. I could mote that an ad where we feel concern and sympathy for Mr. Burns misses the point of Mr. Burns. But the ad wasn't for The Simpsons. It was for Coke and it was effective in a way that very little else was.

The best ad, though, was the Letterman-Leno-Oprah lovefest. Yes, it really was Leno. This was totally unexpected, funny, and will never, ever be seen again. It was also not a realy Super Bowl ad, since CBS isn't paid for its own ads. But CBS gets a ton of buzz, and everyone will want to know just how they did an ad with the guy from that other network.

Otherwise...there wasn't a single non-movie ad I liked.

In terms of movie ads, Robin Hood looks okay, Alice looks interesting but creepy, Least Airbender looks meh, and Prince of Persia looks generic. I didn't see any ads for Harry Potter, and I wonder why there weren't any for Iron Man.

More Snow?

1. As I noted, NYC got spared the big storm of the weekend. Completely. A dusting of no importance at all. I was disappointed, but also not entirely surprised because the good folks at AccuWeather.com forecast four inches at most. I trust their snow forecasts ahead of those at Weather.com and from the National Weather Service.

Therefore, I have to say that NYC might have its chance to be buried in snow after all, as this is in AccuWeather's forecast:

Wednesday, Feb 10
High: 30 °F RealFeel®: 10 °F
Blizzard conditions with strong winds, low visibility and heavy snow, accumulating 10-15"

Gotta say, as much as I know that blizzards are dangerous and costly and so on...I want a snow day!!

Of course, given how snowstorms like to fool meteorologists, this could amount to nothing. But my inner child is cautiously optimistic.

2. I heard that Pres. Obama called the huge storm that buried DC "snowmageddon." I was of the opinion that the proper term is "snowpocalypse." Is our president out of touch in using the wrong term? Or is he a trendsetter? What do you prefer? (Personally, the adult in me doesn't care for either term, but if I have chose, -pocalypse has more of a ring than -mageddon.)