Sunday, August 24, 2008

T-R-A-S-H-Y






As a ritual, I love to pick up the new Eugene Weekly every Thursdays. I'll admit it, the first thing I love to read is the 'I saw you' section. I always wonder if these people had a love connection with a person that didn't even noticed them . . . hmmm.
Oh well.

The next part I love to read is Savage Love. If you've never read it, do it. It's quite interesting. I always get a good laugh or at least a good gag.

But both of those sections are usually on the last 2 pages of the weekly, so I automatically turn the paper over and start reading from the back. And I am always amazed at what I see. Amercian Apparel Ads that look more like the making of a snuff film rather than an advertisement to sell clothes. I always expect to see something like a 1-900 number on the bottom of the ad. The models always look like they're drugged up and their clothes are hanging off their bodies (if they're even wearing any clothes!).

I think they're ads are trashy, degrading and it sends out the wrong message to all the young impressionable kids that acutally buy their clothes.

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