OK, this is my first post on this blog so bear with me. I just really need to get this off my chest....
That guy from the SlapChop ad really freaks me out! I mean seriously, back when he was pitching the ShamWow it was creepy, but at least it was creepy in the way that slowing down to look at a car accident is creepy. You know you shouldn't do it, there's almost certainly nothing there you'll benefit from seeing, and yet for some reason you just can't pull your eyes away.
But that was then, this is now. The SlapChop thing is waaayyyy over the top. Does he really belive we're going to "love his nuts"? I mean OK, props for getting a job where you actually get to throw that statement out there, but honestly, you're a freak. Linguini, martini, bikini...I don't get it, and worse yet, I seem to know it. All of it. The guy's like a human version of the hamster dance song, everything he's dumping out gets stuck in your head.
In some ways I think that's what's really annoying me. Do I really need to have his spiky head and weird eyebrows populating my braincells with images of useless crap? He may be the devil. Not like the big "D" devil, but some minor minion, the patron demon of annoying advertising or something.
I'm really considering an exorcism, you know something involving repeated chantings from Marshall McLuhan while waving around a well thumbed copy of AdBusters..."the medium is the message....the medium is the message".
Even thinking of the time I've spent ranting about this only brings one thing to mind, to quote Joseph Conrad, "The horror, the horror".
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