Thursday, February 01, 2007

headline: aqua teen hunger force shuts down stodgy self-righteous city. wait. what?

why i left boston:
"Enraged city and state officials yesterday readied a legal assault against those responsible for a guerrilla marketing campaign that dotted the city with small battery-powered light screens, setting off fears of terrorism and shutting down major roadways and subway lines for parts of the day."

my favorite part is that this ONLY happened in boston, and not the 9 other cities the campaign was staged.

"Menino and others said the campaign was especially reckless given Boston's sensitivity to terrorism threats, after planes that left Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001, were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center."

here's a newsflash bostonions. you're not gonna get attacked. no one cares enough. the city doesn't have much present-day symbolic importance and doesn't create enough industry to deserve a bombing. you notice how the 9/11 bombers left boston? a false sense of self-importance is very unbecoming. oh yeah, the red sox suck.

btw, mayor menino, you sound like a whiny bitch.

"A visibly angry Menino said he would ask the Federal Communications Commission to yank TBS's broadcasting license for what he called "an outrageous act to gain publicity for their product."
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"Menino was also upset, he said, because top executives at Turner Broadcasting did not contact him directly to discuss what happened. The mayor said he did not receive a call from the company until about 9 p.m., and it was from a low-ranking press official.
"Give me a break. . . . It's all about corporate greed," Menino said, adding that he wanted make sure "not the guy we arrested today pays, but also the people in the boardroom have some obligation also on this issue.""

WAHHHHHH. i didn't get to talk to the important people. WAHHHHH. someone is making money off boston's idiocracy. WAHHHHH. i look like a retard.

lastly, from E!Online:

"It didn't take long to see that the battery-powered boards, some with exposed wires, weren't bombs. And it didn't take long to see that the Aqua Teen Hunger Force promotion was a bomb. A big one."

cute play on words, eonline, but i think you're plain wrong here. this "blitz" campaign clearly worked. it's got everyone talking about the show and has blown the roof off the viral marketing campaign. the only people who are pissed off are the people who would have never watched the show anyway. congrats aqua teen hunger force. you've MADE it.

1 Comments:

Blogger Ray said...

hehe, at least you're not associated with the denizens of that place... let's talk about 70s haircuts...

2/01/2007 11:32 PM  

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