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Rachael Leigh Cook is so hot.

Posted by I wish I could be that egg. | August 1, 2008 1:58 PM
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I love a good mockery of the war on drugs, but isn't this ad reducing "hope" to about as vapid and meaningless a phrase as "family values"?

Posted by Andy | August 1, 2008 2:06 PM
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LOL. Just yesterday I posted "Heroin is so Pass/e" as one of my fave vids by one of the local bands that will be playing at the KEXP BBQ Friday.

Seriously, it is totally last century.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 1, 2008 2:09 PM
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MoveOn is all about preaching to the choir. The only thing a swing voter sees in that ad is a bunch of hipster-class twenty-somethings advertising their Bush-Derangement-Syndrome.

Posted by David Wright | August 1, 2008 2:13 PM
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Doesn't anyone else recognize Boy Meets World star Rider Strong in the Obama ad?! WTF?

Posted by amelia | August 1, 2008 2:17 PM
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Whatever happened to Rachael Leigh? Has she shown up in any cheap soft (or hard) porn yet? It's the next logical step in her downward career trajectory. Point me to it!

I need a quick thrill.

Posted by Matthew | August 1, 2008 2:17 PM
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Get over the hipster thing, Dom. It makes you sound shrill.

Posted by yourmom | August 1, 2008 2:46 PM
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@7) But hipsters are smelly and gross.

Posted by Dominic Holden | August 1, 2008 2:51 PM
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so's your mom

Posted by yourmom | August 1, 2008 2:58 PM
10

Hey! I'm not smelly.

Posted by Dominic Holden's mom | August 1, 2008 3:07 PM
11

Well, not when you wash up.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 1, 2008 3:14 PM
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Dom's mom is maybe the most awesome person in the world.

Just sayin'

Posted by NaFun | August 1, 2008 3:18 PM
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Especially in the shower.

And stop peeking!

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 1, 2008 4:46 PM
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That ad staring Rachel Leigh Cook isn't the ad they were mocking, the RLC ad was a more modernized, late-90's spin-off of the ad they were mocking.

In the original "brain on drugs" ad, it seemed pretty obvious - based on the man's attire - that they specifically meant "don't do coke".

Posted by Dougsf | August 1, 2008 5:18 PM
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that anti heroin ad was totally true

Posted by mourner | August 1, 2008 6:26 PM
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@15) I hope you're joking, but I'm worried you're serious. Heroin, bad as it may be, is not a frying pan; your brain is not an egg; your body does not drip with yolk, no matter how high; and your family is not a dish rack. Not only is it deeply abstract, it's a terrible analogy. That commercial has no applicable information for the would-be heroin user or the addict trying to recover. It's just vacuous fear mongering, with an inexplicably sexy model to make it strangely appealing.

Posted by Dominic Holden | August 1, 2008 7:06 PM
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Dom @16, we've seen a lot of solid reporting from you, but you're drifting into anti-anti-drug hysteria here.

Pretending that only literal fact is true is the trademark rhetorical device of 12-year-olds.  Metaphor often conveys truth more effectively than fact, but then I don't think you need anyone to explain this to you.

Far from being "deeply abstract," illustrating a wrecked life with a wrecked kitchen is about as shallow as an abstraction can get.  (Not in a bad way; think accessible.)

"No applicable information for the would-be heroin user"?  How about "heroin will fucking break you," illustrated in vivid and memorable fashion?

And I'd say the "inexplicably sexy model" who made the ad "strangely appealing" was key to its success.  The ad got noticed, even by those otherwise jaded to its message.  Obviously, Dom, it was memorable enough for you.

Posted by lostboy | August 2, 2008 9:49 AM
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I don't want no heroin, but I do want that model. Raowr.

Posted by Greg | August 2, 2008 10:38 AM
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In the Obama ad, is that Willow's girlfriend that got shot in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Posted by willow | August 2, 2008 10:57 AM
20

this reminds me to smoke some pot. thanks!

Posted by ellarosa | August 2, 2008 7:31 PM
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The other day I saw that TV spot while watching the Daily Show... I thought it was funny as hell. I think that's what it was supposed to be, just something that's lighthearted and vaguely silly. Reading into it any further than that is pointless.

Posted by Krelus | August 2, 2008 9:16 PM
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As usual, moveon shows themselves to be politically tone dead morons. Yes, in a tight election, the thing we want to do when we are fielding a candidate with an admitted history of trying hard drugs is to make light of anti-heroin efforts.

Could we have a reanimated corpse of Layne Staley, still in his sleeping bag, talking about hope? 'Cause I hear all the youngsters like that kind of, you know, irony and stuff.

Posted by Big Sven | August 3, 2008 3:31 PM

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