On returning to the 34th Street station this morning, after a week-long vacation (hey guys, I'm back!) I saw this poster for some horror flick called Disturbia. The tag line? "Every killer lives next door to someone."
Um.... what about Ted Kaczynski?
Of course, this is preferable to the poster it replaced, a PSA to remind us, hey, um, genocide is going on. For some reason, the existence of advertising campaigns to remind us of genocide really bothers me. I understand why such campaigns exist, but bother me they do. The problem with this particular poster was its tagline... "What Happens in Darfur Happens To Us." Unfortunately, every time I saw it my brain substituted the more-ingrained Las Vegas tagline, so it read "What Happens In Darfur Stays In Darfur." Which, unfortunately, is probably closer to the truth.
This was usually pre-coffee brain, but still.
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