There's a new billboard ad for the upcoming NBC TV show Do No Harm, and it's pretty silly. This is what it looks like, just so you know:
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I was driving with friends this evening and we saw this billboard ad for the first time, and we all thought it was pretty dumb. It looks like the guy is playing peek-a-boo, but his face is also printed on his hands. (I guess the looking-in-the-mirror thing has been done to death too much already, huh? But maybe it's not really that imagery, so much as it's the split-personality thing, that has been done to death too much.) There were kids in the car, so the first thing that came to my mind was that this guy must be a professional peek-a-boo player, and so he got his face tattooed onto the tops of his hands so it would be really hard to tell if it was his face or his hands. But then, naturally, he would have to tattoo fingers, finger outlines and fake shadows for a 3D effect onto his face, so his hands and his face would look identical. And then he could spike everyone's water with LSD and chase everybody around playing peek-a-boo, saying: "Hey, look: does this blow your mind, man?"
It would be a lot of work to get to that level of dedication, but somehow, after all that, I still think he would find that people would demonstrate very little appreciation for his peek-a-boo expertise. Which just goes to show you: people are so jaded these days, aren't they? Hardly anyone appreciates peek-a-boo anymore once they're grown up. It's a real shame. And it's no wonder, then, that athletes take performance-enhancing drugs, what with such apathy towards boring sports; because how else are such athletes supposed to get our attention?
