Comments on Deadpan Inc.: An Esquire Man

LOL, it's like a bearded Ricardo Montalbán! :-D

2009-04-29T19:34:00.000-05:00

LOL, it's like a bearded Ricardo Montalbán! :-D

Esquire is weak...but nonetheless I own 26 of the ...

2009-04-29T18:18:00.000-05:00

Esquire is weak...but nonetheless I own 26 of the 31 "manly items". Man, do I feel manly.

No, I was referring to television commercials in t...

2009-04-29T14:40:00.000-05:00

No, I was referring to television commercials in the U.S. that feature a fictional bearded character called "the most interesting man in the world." He's sort of a Ernest Hemmingway type -- a real man's man. Each spot shows a montage of scenes from his life. In the end he says "I don't always drink beer, but when I do, it's Dos Equis." They're pretty funny. Here's the latest spot on youtube.

Never read Esquire. Are those Dos Equis commerci...

2009-04-29T12:21:00.000-05:00

Never read Esquire.

Are those Dos Equis commercials the ones made by LaChapelle? Those are kind of weird, because are reminiscent of tacky calendar art of the 1950s and 60s that you could find at butcher's houses and repair shops; but since they were made by Andy Warhol's protege, they are now "high art", and praised by the same people who wouldn't have bought the calendar art that served as inspiration to this guy. It's nice to see artists being so conscious about the importance of re-cycling ;-)

Sometimes, the people who reject your work are han...

2009-04-29T10:08:00.000-05:00

Sometimes, the people who reject your work are handing you a bigger compliment than if they'd accepted it. (note: this insight occured while reading the linked Esquire list-WTF? Maybe they should have just reprinted Rudyard Kipling's "If" - only, I don't think there were too many product placement links available in that).

Woody Allen said it better, "Who'd want to belong to a club that would have you as a member?"

For reasons which escape me now, I was reading Esquire about the same time Lilly was making music videos.

Times (and hair styles) have changed indeed.