Where's the Absolut?
This is funny. We had a post all teed up asking readers to try to identify the street that served as the backdrop for the new Absolut Brooklyn ad campaign when we saw that Miss Heather had not only beaten us to it but figured out that it’s a street that only exists in the…
This is funny. We had a post all teed up asking readers to try to identify the street that served as the backdrop for the new Absolut Brooklyn ad campaign when we saw that Miss Heather had not only beaten us to it but figured out that it’s a street that only exists in the magical world of Photoshop. And we were going to guess Crown Heights or Prospect Heights, suckers that we are!
At least they didn’t call it a ‘Spike Lee Joint’…that would have been weird.
Calling me a fan is so Brooklyn rap lyric circa 2002. I love how personal people get on here…it makes me smile.
Everyone holds weight in the world:).
“Sorry, if you don’t like Spike…that doesn’t mean they don’t hold weight in the world.”
Who said he didn’t “hold weight in the world?” He’s famous! No one is denying that. He obviously has a bunch of kiss-ass fans (like you, cillmylamdlord_again)who think he’s a swell guy. But that doesn’t mean I have to like his bullsh*t vodka or buy his transparent shilling of this crappy swill, OR refrain from saying just what I feel about the whole thing.
TRY AND STOP ME!
I think yall are crazy as hell and need therapy…write a letter and tear it up. Move on. Go watch Angelina tote guns and kill men in her next movie, then wrap her head and help the children in Pakistan, then go sleep on a Vera Wang Serta. That makes as much sense as what the hell is being talked about here.
Hope you didn’t see the Jay-Z Absolut commercial…
We’re hating on him cuz real Brooklynites know that Spike don’t live in Brooklyn! He’s a fucking traitor, made the big bucks, got the fancy wife, and moved to the UES! What don’t you get about that?
Vodka is some over-rated shit anyway, it all comes from the same mash made by ADM. Seriously.
Kinda like Angelina Jolie and the United Nations…Vera Wang and Serta…Jimmy Buffet and the Gulf Oil Disaster Concert. People’s names are brands and they use them to bring either awareness to a “thing” or cross-market a “thing”. All celebrities can be self-serving, but no person can question another person’s reason for doing something…Sorry, if you don’t like Spike…that doesn’t mean they don’t hold weight in the world.
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“Spike is a sell-out”…why? Because he’s using his brand to cross-market another brand?”
His BRAND? Ha! He’s using his NAME and the fact that he’s a famous guy from Brooklyn to shill some vodka. What the hell does he know about distilling vodka? How exactly did he “collaborate” on the manufacture of this beverage? Joe Torre is just as qualified as Spike Lee to “collaborate” on some vodka!
The whole thing likely went down just as MM said at 12:15 PM. That’s his right, but I think the whole thing is a big joke. The idea of a “Brooklyn” vodka is ridiculous, and Spike (to his credit as a capitalist) simply saw a big paycheck and jumped. He doesn’t get any “cred” from me for that, just an appropriate label – shill.
Right.
you sound like you drink and go to bars too much.