Silent Running from Carl's Jr.

That Mike & The Mechanics song periodically pops into my head when my cell phone loses reception. “Can you hear me? Can you hear me running?” I croon into my v600.

C@ and I were discussing this phenomenon the other day, and when we started singing the actual lyrics to the rest of the song, we realized how bizarre it is:

“Take the children and yourself, and hide out in the cellar”?

“There’s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway – use it only in emergency”?

“Pledge allegiance to the flag, whatever flag they offer”?

Was this a Cold War anthem? Was I too young to fully grasp the pro-militia slant? I became disturbed. I became more disturbed when I realized I love that song! Not even in the past tense. It rocks!

After I recovered from that revelation, I turned on the TV. The ad for Carl’s Jr.’s spicy bbq burger was on. It features an ill-mannered baby in utero, speaking via sonogram. Disturbing enough, right? Wrong. At the end of the commercial, the baby issues a threat – stop eating spicy food, or I’m going to come out early, grab something from here and bring it with me. To illustrate his point, he tugs at the uterine lining.

WTF? Is he threatening to give his mother a hysterectomy? Over a burger? That’s just creepsville, man.