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Entry: May 08, 2008 @ 3:07pm
posted by maw_photo
May 08, 2008 5:04PM
I know you're joking when you say she looks "fat" compared with other models...but if they were actually shooting in Middle America, she would have appeared emaciated next to those Midwestern gals. The waitresses at my hometown diner would have sat on her and force-fed her some pie, a la mode.
Entry: Pin-Up
posted by maw_photo
May 09, 2008 1:09PM
Wow, these are a flashback to growing up in a small town and the wives from the American Legion selling these on November 11. If you WIKI-pedia paper poppy, you get the backstory:
The charity organises a fund-raising drive each year during which artificial poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered to the public in return for a charitable donation. Over the course of the preceding year disabled people are employed making the poppies. The idea of poppies dates back to the poem In Flanders' Fields about the First World War, after which the Legion was founded. The idea is that the poppies are worn from November to Remembrance Day to remember the fallen of the First World War, and implicitly the dead of other wars.
Entry: Gossip Girl Guesses
posted by maw_photo
May 08, 2008 3:32PM
RE: Gossip Girl No Longer Streaming Online...
I think it's a shame that the Nielsen ratings system is so outdated that it can't quantify the number of viewers who were watching the episodes streaming online at the official CW site, as that is how I kept up with the show before the writers' strike, and now I hate missing it, as I don't bother with cable and TiVo, but I do have an expendable income.
Obviously advertising pays for the show, and the CW has to show advertising they are reaching an audience--but they should be able to sell ONLINE advertising for the streaming episodes and to quantify the number of hits their site gets for that, which should be seen as an asset, and frosting on the cake, for potential advertisers, especially since this market is young and tech-savvy, just like Gossip Girl.