Public transportation is my Anti-Drug

There is a forgotten period of American history when the television powers-that-be were convinced that rap was the way into the hearts and minds of youngsters everywhere. We were not won over, and were about as embarrassed as the time your grandfather took you to see Nine Inch Nails live in concert and he didn’t have socks on.

This is just poetry, which is really just a lot worse. I saw another of these ads featuring more intense from-the-heart poetry but it’s just more of the same so there’s no real reason to post it. I do find it odd that they chose to do a mini-campaign around poetry, instead of maybe just one spot.

Ok here’s the big problem with this ad. The guy is totally getting a poem off his chest -which I understand, I have to do that more than twice daily- and he is talking about his friend who could have been a great poet if only he had stayed off the weed, a.k.a. Herb.

Uh, I’m pretty sure I could have been a successful poet if only I HAD smoked weed in high school. “Billy was on his way to becoming a successful TA in the Philosophy Department when he started smoking weed. His dreams were never realized.” Something just doesn’t add up here. How stressful is the world of writing poetry in high school? Please those of you in high school toiling away on your poetry do not respond to this with a poem about how you live in an existential hell where Bush is the devil, it is just a rhetorical question.

Pot I’m sure could stop someone from doing a lot of things, but obsessively writing poetry or building a chair out of bottle caps aren’t some of those things.

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