Men men men men, manly men men men!" "Men men men men, manly men, oo hoo hoo, hoo hoo, oo.

Has anyone else noticed the increase in manly men ads. It’s like the guy with the burly voice and strong presence is becoming the mascot for every brand out there. Among the many there is the Most Interesting Man in the World for Dos Equis; The Man Your Man Could Smell Like for Red Spice and; Mayhem, the guy from the Allstate commercial. While they do create a great buzz and comical relief amongst the viewers, what about the ones that just plain suck?!

I love Red Spice, Dos Equis, and Allstate from their original ingenuity but to all the other brands out there who are jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of being cool, we see right through your wannabe schemes and it’s not working. In fact, you’re actually doing yourself a disservice.

Yeah , I’m talking to you Dr. Pepper . It looks like you had to send something to the press in less than ten minutes so you decided to copy every other great idea but change up the delivery.

The Round Up Recap:

The Good:

    The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

The Bad:

    Dr. Pepper

The Downright Annoying:
    I hope such a thing like this does not exist.

The Makings of a Great Commercial

Racially ambiguous young urban adults doing noble things with their other peers while attending events in cities with high rising towers and unique hole-in-the-walls. Not to mention everyone, although has the savings of a newly graduated college student, can afford worn in clothes with posh price tags.

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Racially ambiguous young urban adults √

In the company of peers√

 Attending events in the city √

Expensively cheap clothes √

            Budweiser, you did well.

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Yadi, yadi, yada. Nike’s great. They have good ads. Blah blah blah. After the hundreds of great advertisements put out over the years you think people would get tired of them, but NO! It is just the opposite. With every new season, every upcoming sporting event, and all the rookies entering into whatever sport, one thing remains the same: The way my heart swells as I think about the possible Nike ads that will soon be coming to a YouTube (I don’t have cable) channel near me.

My emotions after viewing said ads could be compared to that of a kid on the 24th of December. Now that it is Olympic season, I have what those kids don’t, a chance to relive that feeling more than once a year!

-Thank you Wieden + Kennedy.

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While their main intent may or may not be to persuade the politically inept and un-savvy people to vote based upon looks, persona, and relationship status, they definitely did a good job of it. These days no one has - or thinks they have - the time to actually sit down and learn about the parties they vote for but they always have time to read a good story. It doesn’t hurt if that story is also attached to a good-looking face. So here we have it, the 50 most “qualified”, I mean beautiful people of Capitol Hill.

This is a pretty nice way of selling a a good product (the people) to the buyers (the voters).

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While their main intent may or may not be to persuade the politically inept and un-savvy people to vote based upon looks, persona, and relationship status, they definitely did a good job of it. These days no one has - or thinks they have - the time to actually sit down and learn about the parties they vote for but they always have time to read a good story. It doesn’t hurt if that story is also attached to a good-looking face. So here we have it, the 50 most “qualified”, I mean beautiful people of Capitol Hill.

This is a pretty nice way of selling a a good product (the people) to the buyers (the voters).

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While their main intent may or may not be to persuade the politically inept and un-savvy people to vote based upon looks, persona, and relationship status, they definitely did a good job of it. These days no one has - or thinks they have - the time to actually sit down and learn about the parties they vote for but they always have time to read a good story. It doesn’t hurt if that story is also attached to a good-looking face. So here we have it, the 50 most “qualified”, I mean beautiful people of Capitol Hill.

This is a pretty nice way of selling a a good product (the people) to the buyers (the voters).

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While their main intent may or may not be to persuade the politically inept and un-savvy people to vote based upon looks, persona, and relationship status, they definitely did a good job of it. These days no one has - or thinks they have - the time to actually sit down and learn about the parties they vote for but they always have time to read a good story. It doesn’t hurt if that story is also attached to a good-looking face. So here we have it, the 50 most “qualified”, I mean beautiful people of Capitol Hill.

This is a pretty nice way of selling a a good product (the people) to the buyers (the voters).

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Behold the world’s largest paper airplane, part of The Great Paper Airplane Project.

Also see how 20 prominent contemporary artists re-imagined the paper plane.

Although it may seem as though this just a video about the biggest paper airplane, it is actually so much more than that. It reminds all of us that if you have an idea, go for it. Who cares if it’s been done before, do it again but BIGGER. Who cares if other people think it’s stupid, they’re not the ones doing it. And if it does not seem plausible remember, before the first airplane took flight scientists thought it would be thousands of years before man could fly. Do what you want to do and do it without apprehension. Even if it crashes like the paper plane at the end, AT LEAST YOU DID SOMETHING.

                                                                                                   -TK

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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I almost never met this woman because I was in such a rush with my life. It was not until my former teacher urged me to slow down, take more classes and reminded me that life is not going anywhere. He told me that life is going to happen whether you want it to or not but slowing down will make sure that when it does, you will be fully ready for it. Well… maybe not in those exact words but that’s what I go from it.

Thank you Dave Koranda for that. Without you, I would not have met Deb Morrison. She is an amazing being and and even more amazing teacher (I say teacher in lieu of professor because these people did more than “profess” educational words, they taught me the skills of life). You know that saying,  “Those who can, do and those who can’t, teach” ? FORGET IT. She is the person who can do but is gracious enough to pass it on to those who can’t.

Here’s just a glimpse of her wisdom.

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