BLOBBY'S BLOG

HOLIDAY INN ads

There really isn't much good about unemployment. I know people keep saying to enjoy the time off, but I can't. It'd be much easier to enjoy the time if I knew when I'd be starting work again. Then I'd have the frickin' time of my life. I also know I'm repeating myself here. But it can become too easy to be lulled into television time. Chef Bob was amazed that I didn't watch every talk show that Madonna made an appearance on to yak about her adopted child and how wronged she felt. He felt I was squandering my time by not watching her.

I'm still up fairly early, but not work-early. My morning consists of cereal, the paper and some morning news shows. By the time Dawson's Crack Creek comes on, I try to move on to other things. But being.....well.....me....I've noticed that CNN plays a string of commercials I have never seen at any other time of day or on any other channel.

They are all Holiday Inn commercials that are geared towards people who are not me: the business traveler. I'm not a hotel snob, but I remember Holiday Inns as being the hotel next to the Day's Inn as you drive down I-75 on the way to Florida. Somewhere you're almost forced to stay when stopping in Valdosta, GA. Over the last few years I really liked staying at Holiday Inn Express or Crowne Plaza (or even their Intercontinental) hotels, but I swear, these ads are enough to make me want to give them the business.

The ads are funny with a (sometimes) gay vibe. I am partial to the Toothbrush and Unicycle ads myself. You can view them all here.