Hey kiddywinks, in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s December and the blackboard outside one of my local pubs reads, “Santa sez – drink early for Xmas!”. So obviously drink early, but please also remember to leave Christ out of Christmas from now on. We’re celebrating Xmas these days – and the bible bashers agree :0)

Every time I see starlings now I think of that Carling “Belong” advert with the Hard Fi soundtrack (“Living for the Weekend”). It’s quite a clever ad and I love those swirling clouds the birds make. It makes me want to listen to the CD. But…it doesn’t make me want to drink Carling Black Label. I don’t think even a throat full of hot sand would make me want to drink Carling Black Label. Also, I think they missed a trick there and could have blended the swirling cloud of birds into bubbles in a glass of Carling being poured out. And, all it finishes with is the word “Belong”. If you don’t recognise the red, black and white branding of the wording then you don’t recognise the product either and it ends up looking like just a clever TV ident.

themightychew – 3, Marketing coke heads – 1.

What’s funny though is how I’m, mostly, impervious to adverts, but not to trailers for crap films. The latest trailer for the new Miami Vice film (which I’m guessing is going to be crap) has the Linkin Park\Jay-Z tune “Numb\Encore” running through it. I love the track and straight away I’m interested and thinking, “Yeah, I’ll get that DVD out, yeah that’ll be really good!”. Then I know I’ll watch it to the point where they play the Numb tune and that’ll be it, film over. I did that with the absolute bag of shite film In&Out (6 out of 10 on IMDB?!!). There was one scene in the trailer where Kevin Kline’s character, who is trying to prove he’s not gay, says, “I ran into him at the homo-section, I mean the inter-sexual!!”. It stil makes me laugh now. But all I have to do is think about the rest of the film and that smile quickly evaporates. Such. A. Pile. Of. Crud. The trailer sucked me in, but the actual film is the only one that I have ever walked out of the cinema from.

“Who dear me dear gay dear? No dear! How VERY dare you!!”


Whilst looking for a pic of Derek Faye (Catherine Tate’s 'gay man in denial' character), I found this horrible 'right-on' Christian poster that has tried to piggy back onto popular culture to get Christ’s message to 'the kidz'.



Erm, do they know that the character they’re quoting is gay and that the reason he’s refusing to accept his gayness is because of the feared persecution and stigma that often then follows? The kind of persecution conducted so viciously by these very same religious types....

themightychew – 1, sad religious types - 0