Yes. Yes I have.

I’m very familiar with it in BC, and the replies that said “I think it’s more of a [region] thing” mentioned places across the entire country. If it’s “regional” to Maritimes, Ontario, Manitoba, and BC, you got yourself a national product.

LATO

My friend Ben Mills used to have a joke about how we stopped being able to complain about artists selling out when the majority of people stopped buying the art. If the best case scenarios for downloading and streaming puts fractions of cents in bank accounts, then they can do the commercial.

It did not improve my blood pressure, but everything else got better.

LeBron: “Can’t believe I didn’t even score ten points tonight. I promise not to do this again for 18 years.”

Me:

The old Rolex ads were pretty bad too, haha. I went to a screening at the VIFF Theatre of Hundreds of Beavers a year or two ago, and when the Rolex commercial revealed at the end that it was a Rolex commercial, the audience full on laughed.

A very good point, and a reminder that one of the main VIFF sponsors is now Rolex.