Wow!! Hot, not cool!!

I just saw the new York Peppermint Patty commercial with model, Gavin Dunne, eating a peppermint patty. Okay, I'm a grandma, very happily married, generally not taken with your typical young sexy beefcake guys - but WOW!!!!



I do enjoy an occasional York Peppermint Patty but I wasn't thinking about their cool sweet minty goodness when I watched Mr. Dunn devour his candy.

I couldn't watch anything but this man's amazing face!! Those eyes!!! This is one commercial I may not be fast forwarding through often! Congratulations ad agents for York. You have found the way to thwart the DVR!




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Stream Stream Stream

I find so many commercials annoying and one of the new most annoying commercials is the Xfinity streaming commercial using the old Everly Brothers hit Dream Dream Dream. Various scenarios show "everyday people" doing their jobs while watching streaming TV.


I'm sure my boss would be thrilled if I were streaming reruns of Lost while I typed up a letter. And I wouldn't feel terribly confident if my surgeon had Seinfeld streaming as I was rolled into the ER. It's such a bizarre commercial.

But the thing that struck me the most was extrapolating on those lyrics. I got the song in my head and began singing it and the truth of Xfinity streaming was exposed:

"only trouble is... Gee whiz... I'm streaming my whole life away..."

Yep, that is how the commercial should really play. People sitting back, eating and glued to their iPads and iPhones watching streaming TV mindlessly while the birds are chirping around them, their kids and pets going unattended... Their lives passing them by... Because that's just what would happen. The last thing the world needs now is yet another way to watch TV!!

Unfortunately the commercial doesn't go that far with the song but I would enjoy it a lot more if it did.




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