Blasts your colon! zing!
What is this? L-A-Z-Y. And ORGANIC. I weep for our country's culinary future.

Labels: consumerism, crazy

- posted by meg @ 9:42 PM

 
That's a new one
I got $2 off a carwash today because it was ladies' day! That's a marketing strategy I haven't seen applied to drive-through automobile care before.

Labels: consumerism

- posted by meg @ 6:12 PM

 
It's good for everyone
About a month ago I picked up the Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease 5-disc DVD set. I've done the first two discs so I thought I'd give a quick review so I can stop telling all my girl friends to buy it.

Let me respond to some frequent questions/comments first and get them out of the way. No, Carmen is not naked, at least not yet. Although she does do a striptease in the credits. And yes, every woman should have this.

The first disc is an hour-long introductory lesson. There's about 20-25 minutes of warm up with Carmen and two of the Pussycat Dolls. Then the ladies change their outfits for each of two routines. The instruction and pacing is great. You learn a new step or two and then repeat from the beginning. This means that each routine is only about 2 minutes long but again, it's an intro lesson. The workout itself isn't too heavy, I wasn't exactly sweaty but I couldn't not shower either. I did find that my everyday motions were a little more, uh, graceful though. Other neat features on all the discs include an option to choose among music genres for the workouts (hip hop, techno and rock) and the option to do all the segments of the workout or choose segments. This comes in handy with the next disc.

The second disc is straight aerobics with Carmen and instructor Michael Carson. The separate segments can come in handy here if you want to just work your legs, abs, or upper body. I do the entire hour workout and have already noticed some changes after maybe 4 times. The goal of this disc is to get your body in shape for the more rigorous activities in the later discs. I really like this instruction as well. Every move is explained well so you know what muscle group to work, which sounds simple but is sometimes forgotten on exercise DVDs. Each exercise can also be adapted to higher strength levels by increasing reps or adding wrist and ankle weights (I just ordered some). The only issue with the segmentation is that if you do the whole workout they sometimes explain a move in the warm up and the target segment. Not a downside really, especially since I fill that time with more reps. One note, some of the exercises require a chair to work from so have one handy. I really recommend this as a workout so if you just want a dancer's body (and a stripper's ass) then you should buy this disc separately.

Although really the reason I purchased this was to have something fun to look forward to for exercise. I still try to run at least once a week and I do this twice a week or so. It is much more fun than just running and the second disc is definitely a good work out. The body message is very positive. Michael is also very positive when it comes to reps and different abilities. I'm noticing results already so if you can't do all the reps at first don't feel bad, it'll happen soon.

Seriously, it's fun. Give it a try. I'll be back with reviews on the other discs.

Labels: awesome, consumerism, working out

- posted by meg @ 1:20 PM

 
Target Audience
I passed a billboard today for Miller Lite (I think). It was comparing the price of a 6-pack to that of bottled water. Hey, look, MGD isn't pretentious, not like bottled water. We're for regular people.

Except all I could think of was the time I got really sick on a Gordon's Long Island. Not so much because of the alcohol amount but because of the alcohol quality. I came up with an advertising campaign for Gordon's then: Gordon's, cheaper than water!

I guess I'm saying this campaign isn't really grabbing me.

Labels: consumerism

- posted by meg @ 5:19 PM