{"id":4084,"date":"2009-06-16T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2009-06-15T19:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T23:19:58","slug":"you-could-call-it-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-could-call-it-viral","title":{"rendered":"You COULD call it viral. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I posted about the Leroy Smith viral marketing campaign, which I thought was a hoot. At that time, I mentioned that I frequent the basketball website realgm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of my other regular destinations is Page 6<\/a>, the gossip section of the New York Post<\/em>. It’s one of the few ways I have to stay in touch with the popcult, since I don’t watch a lot of TV and haven’t listened to the radio in my car in a few years. I enjoy seeing the bold-faced names and reading of their canoodling, even if I’m not sure who’s whom. The blind items can be pretty entertaining, too.<\/p>\n

But sometimes the ads catch my eye. They’re usually for Broadway musicals or condos. Sometimes, the ads for a TV show like 90210 take over the entire page.<\/p>\n

And sometimes you get Denise Richards.<\/p>\n

When I saw the animated tower ad this weekend for the second (!?) season of Denise Richards’ reality show on E!, “It’s Complicated”<\/a>, I assumed I was looking at a parody ad for one of those “Scary Movie” flicks. Why? Because this was the first of three slogans\/catchphrases:<\/p>\n

\"funbag\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Flaunt my funbags.” Oh, I’m sorry. I mean, “FLAUNT MY FUNBAGS.”<\/p>\n

I, uh, wow. I don’t have anything to add. Anyone help me out here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I posted about the Leroy Smith viral marketing campaign, which I thought was a hoot. At that time, I mentioned that I frequent the basketball website realgm.com. One of my other regular destinations is Page 6, the gossip section of the New York Post. It’s one of the few ways I have to … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “You COULD call it viral. . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[738],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-denise-richards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-13S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4060,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/motivize-pulverize-and-realize","url_meta":{"origin":4084,"position":0},"title":"Motivize, Pulverize and Realize","author":"Gil","date":"June 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear readers, I'm sorry I didn't offer up any sorta NBA playoffs preview or predictions this year. 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