More Ad Space Please

by Chris Dierkes on July 29, 2009

The lengths companies will go to use any available eye-line to try to sell me something is beyond belief.   Let me explain.  I’m walking to work this morning and pass a cement mixing truck doing it’s thing.  You know mixing cement, pouring it down the chute to go on the sidewalk.   Great.  Then I notice–I make this up not–that the truck’s mixing cylinder, that huge piece on the back that spins, well that  has been purchased as ad space for asparagus.  As the drum turns I get this surreal image of a giant bunched stalk of asparagus twirling around and around.  The vegetables are the proper size for the actual Jolly Green Giant’s dinner.

I mean nothing says yummy greens like a horrific 10 foot stalk of scary asparagus while pouring concrete.

Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.

{ 3 comments }

1 Scott H. Payne July 29, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Ho, ho, ho.. spend money!

2 Jaybird July 30, 2009 at 7:25 am

Not only are *YOU* thinking about asparagus now, you’re making all of *US* think about asparagus!

3 Chris Dierkes July 30, 2009 at 11:12 am

mmmm, asparagus. i don’t know where this craving for asparagus has come from?

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