You know those American Express ads in print magazines — the ones where Ellen DeGeneres and Tina Fey fill in the blanks with witty statements that simultaneously say nothing and everything?
Yeah, you remember ‘em. The ones with the images and pithy comments designed to manipulate us riffraff into feeling a kinship with the featured celeb so that we’d wanna become members of the same club: card members, that is.
It never occurred to me that American Express might be right until last night, when a piece of the ad with Tina and her daughter Alice got stuck on my sweaty glass of iced tea. Read the rest of this entry »
