September 28, 2004 by Colin
“CARMEN ELECTRA is so popular with marketers these days that the advertising industry may be facing a new phenomenon: Carmen clutter.The former “Baywatch” star currently appears in three ads for high-profile marketers, making her presence on the small screen less extraordinary than it might usually be. … (WSJ pay story)
Carmen clutter. A far more manageable, and desirable, cultural problem than Hammer time or Mullet mania.
Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
Images: British Library
I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilothttp://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130408043926-7298-early-employees-joel-jewitt-palm
Before I discovered the Internet
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Surprisingly, I have never seen Carmen Electra in any recent ads. Maybe it’s because I am a straight woman – I just don’t notice her. However, I have to admit, I almost always remember something kitschy or humorous. Perhaps it’s the way my mind works, but when you are inundated with the new femme fatale of the month promoting virtually every product out there, a case can be made for the mullet ads or similar ads using unusual characters or slightly off center humor. They certainly stand out in the white washed sea of beauty. Bring on the talking ducks and the fat men in frills, I say.