Published March 29th, 2007
in Snippets.
Another ironic anti-meth commercial: Cleaner Girl, circa 1999. The ad’s subtlety can make it seem like self-parody; it’s sometimes called the Meth Song.
It’s referred to in Nicole Strasbury’s book The Husband’s Dilemma:
[T]he woman on her hands and knees, scrubbing, scrubbing, her eyes crazy, her pupils pinned, her hair wild: I don’t eat, and I don’t [...]
Published March 22nd, 2007
in Snippets.
Pretty chilling ad, from an anti-Meth campaign in Montana: Boyfriend (directed by Darren Aronofsky—Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain.)
I don’t tend to think that the “Not once! Not even once!” line is reasonable advice when it comes to these things—or even useful—so I can’t vouch for the actual efficacy of this Montana Meth project (more [...]
Published March 19th, 2007
in General.
Wherein we discuss French intimate acts, the Big Bang, and that “nobody being chased down by an arrow was ever saved by Zeno’s paradox.”