The Secret Sales Pitch, a book you should read!

Here's a web site and a book I really hope you'll read and SOON! The Secret Sales Pitch: An Overview of Subliminal Advertising shows where and how we are subliminally pushed to buy products, or have certain feelings. Smoking companies, alcohol companies, the fashion industry all put funny little 'things' in their ads to talk to our subconscious and trigger feelings of NEED for that product. Screens are added to movies to scare us more. IT'S TRUE!!!

Even the movies tell us we NEED particular brands of cigarettes, alcohol, and soda pop. Recently I watched a movie and the characters were drinking Rolling Rock beer in scene after scene. The smokers were all smoking Marlboro's. Don't think movies are subliminally selling to you? Don't believe that ads in magazines promote sexual violence and feelings of inadequecy? Don't believe that Tony The Tiger is selling cereal to your kid? Well, The Secret Sales Pitch shows places where advertisers and promoters reach in and speak to that "I WANT" part of your brain, and you'll find yourself buying that product, or feeling the feelings they are pushing on you.

Mr. Bullock has been kind enough to have some e-mail discussions with me regarding his book and even though I was a bit apprehensive, I went ahead and told him about an error I discovered in his book (now THAT's cheeky, huh?).

I also received his kind approval to talk about his book here, and put the link in for those of you that are interested (and frankly, you should be!!) to go check it out further and get your own copy of the book.

I spotted an ad in the September Harper's Bazaar magazine and scanned and forwarded that on to Mr. Bullock for his input - and maybe a feature in his next book!! I was amazed by my reaction to the advertisement. It's for (it turns out) a high-end-fashion handbag company called Dolce & Gabbana. In the ad - three very well dressed women are fighting over a nude man. One woman has her hand around the throat of another, with an upraised whip in her hand! The third woman appaers to be about to deliver a smack to the well-defined behind of the nude man - who is draped over a chair. Where's the handbags, we all wonder? Well, heck, all that ad makes me want to do is go out and start a fight! Why? Because the undertoned message is about "the woman's internal conflicts as she simultaneously loves, hates, wants to destroy and wants to save the man." - this according to a comment from Mr. Bullock from our e-mail discussions after he got the scanned ad.

The Secret Sales Pitch: An Overview of Subliminal Advertising www.SubliminalSex.com
I hope you'll at minimum check out the website, at best order the book and get some armor from the bombardment of subliminal advertising!!! Good luck!

Trying out a photobucket link

Well, according to the instructions, all you readers need to do is click on this link and you will be amazed by pictures of our trip to Lincoln City Oregon.
http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc71/janahoward1962/

Hopefully you'll get there and everything will be there like it should be. I'll download more pictures, I need to make them smaller so they don't take an hour to download like these did, geez that's nerve frazzling to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait. Did I tell you I hate waiting?

I found out something VERY important on this trip. My daughter called the hotel and the girl that took the message said she sounded odd on the phone, even though the message said it wasn't an emergency and I could call her if I wanted to. Well, being a mother, I didn't like the tone of it all, so I used my debit card and called from the room. Today I checked my banking online, and the debit card was charged $35.00 for the phone call!!!!!!!!!!! I'm still stammering and wondering who to throttle for this one. I'm going to call the hotel we stayed at and get the name of the phone company that dared to do this, and then Monday I'm going to call them and wham a few heads. My monthly phone bill isn't barely over $20, I'm NOT paying $35 for a 10 minute call from Oregon to Washington state on a weekday morning!! Just because I was born at night doesn't mean I was born last night!!!

I'll be interested to know if those of you that come on here were able to get to the pictures and weren't made to do a bunch of tapdancing at Photobucket. Gattina uses it all the time, so if its a bad deal, its her fault!!!

Off to the beach!

Well, we're rolling outta here for a couple of days on the Oregon coast - Lincoln City to be precise. For those of you on the other side or in the middle of the country who haven't been there, it's gorgeous and makes me feel small and wonderful to be there.
From here we head south west and pretty much stay that way till we get to Lincoln City. The hotel we stay in is about 100' up from the beach and we stay in the same place every time. Gosh such habitaul creatures, I know, but we've stayed at 3 or 4 different places and I have a problem because they aren't clean enough for me. This place doesn't allow little kids and we enjoy the quietness of that. The other place we stayed in, we had kids playing Volcano all night long over our heads (that byegone game of yesteryear where the floor is hot and you have to jump on the beds and all the furniture in the room in order to stay out of the hot lava on the floor). We also have our own kitchen and do our own cooking. I think I talked here once about Chris's dad giving us heck for cooking on vacation - saying its not a vacation if you don't eat out and let someone else do the dishes and cleanup. Well they went down to the casino and ate, and he got food poisoning, was in bed an entire day from it. I didn't tell him I TOLD YOU SO!!! but I really wanted to. Besides I'm so picky about what I eat I don't trust any kitchen but my own. I know my hands and utensils are clean and the food is fresh and prepared right and cooked thoroughly and NOT picked up off the floor and tossed back in the pan, or some just-about-rotten stuff that's masked in gravy or those ever inventive "spices". NO thankyou!!!
So - we'll be home late Friday, then we're taking Fay over to my brothers house near Puyallup Washington for my great-nephew's 3rd birthday party. Haven't been to my brother's in about 9 years, I really detest his wife, but being the bitches that we are, we can get along for one day long enough to give the kid a few presents and let them see their great neice, Fay was only about 8 months old last time they saw her and she's 2 now. Brother is going in to have his sinuses roto-rootered to get rid of an infection that the antibiotices won't touch. Wouldn't have anything to do with 30 years of dehydration and smoking dope now would it?? No way, what do I know that an expert medical team and a $10,000 surgery don't??? Better him than me, I suppose.
Otherwise, hopefully you can all get by without me for a few days, I'll have pictures to put on here when we get back, and if we see any whales I'll get a video. One time I watched a group of Killer Whales chasing sealions. Never seen anything swim as fast as those sealions were going, wow. Talk about Fast Food!!! BYE!! and behave!!

Missed my anniversary on Blogger!!

Well, I was just reading someone's blog saying they've been blogging for a year, and it made me think, HEY, I've been doing this about a year too. Turns out it was a year in July, so I'm late to my own anniversary.
What a year it's been too. My daughter, son-in-law and grandygirl moved to the area from over on the coast about a year ago. I've been present for both Fay's birthday parties. What a difference it is to look at her pictures from then and to see her now. I was over yesterday to stay with her while John's granfather's funeral was going on - no reason to expect a 2 year old to behave in a group of mourners anyway. SO, mommy pushed Fay because Fay wouldn't kiss her goodbye, so Fay looks at me and says "Nanny, Mommy pushed me..." in the cutest little whiney baby voice you ever heard.
What else happened in this past year? Well - there was the broken ankle fiasco of August, 2006. I'm healed up pretty much, though still not very interested in hiking. I did replace those crappy hiking boots with some very high quality backpacking boots. We're supposed to go on vacation next week and do an overnight hike, we'll see what happens.
Chris and I had a couple really bad fights over the past year, some of those discussions ended up on here. I suppose that since we're both the babies of our families we're never going to be good at sharing. Though I'm better at it having had a daughter that insisted I share with her. Chris never had to share and is terrible at it. He neither shares his feelings or real discussions - he routinely talks about the feds, the masons, the catholics, and his new fantasy - the timeline on the building of the pyramids... boring!!! I pissed off family members in big ways, we got a new sofa too, which I like now a lot more than I did when Chris bought it.
Oh - I've met some really really neat people Blogging, and I am so happy to mention them, and thank them for coming by and commenting and offering support and suggestions when I needed them: Grammie, Gattina, Claudia, Ron, Pistols, Bert, and a couple of anonymous people too. I've learned some things are in blogger that I never knew about - like that lady and her pet - that turned out to be some S&M couple - that was weird. Saw some fat gay Chinese men too - now that was VERY GROSS!!!! I learned to put pictures in here and I got a new digital camera this year that I like a lot too.
I still hate cell phones, won't own one in my lifetime - unless they are make mandatory by law, and then I'll probably get jailed for not having one. I still love working for myself as a cleaning lady, and appreciate all my clients too.
Happy Blogoversary to me, and thanks friends for sharing the ride with me!!