Back from Seville + contest winner!
So I have returned to Granada, and as always am glad to be back. I was at first rather impressed with Seville with its smoother walk-ways, ritzier stores, bigger river and hipper night-life, not to mention a wider variety of tourist attractions. But it didn´t take 24 hours before I was longing for Granada´s cobblestones, orange walls and friendly graffiti.
I´ll write more about the city and our trip when I´ve got a bit more time, but first I´m excited to announce that we have a winner in the guess the brand name contest! Please be aware that I don´t endorse this company in any way, I just thought that their slogan was a bit absurd and sounded slightly freaky and psychadelic.
The slogan was:
Ven a la Placer Azul
Which translated to English means:
Go to the Blue Pleasure
Which said in a deep, raspy voice sounds:
Hideously creepy.
The winnder is:
Tylor!
And the brand name is:
Nestle.
Here´s Tylor´s winning entry:
"I think it is a Nestle ice cream product called "KIMY swirls blue"...it's cold, turns your mouth blue and is on a stick...familiar brand Nestle. What comics do I win?"
I´m not familar with the KIMY swirls blue and don´t know at all what it might do to your mouth, but all the advertising for Nestle frozen confections out here has a blue background, and the Nestle logo is blue, so that´s where I assumed the logo came from. Tylor may know more about this Blue Pleasure than even I did!
So anyway, this contest is over, and I´ll be sending Tylor some rad Spanish comics as soon as I get his address.
I´ll try to think of another contest to host soon. Thank you to everyone who participated!
posted by Aaron @ 3:58 AM
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The REAL Aaron (A/C)
Dang it! I didn't know there was a contest going on...owell I didn't know the answer anyway. BOOOOOO. So yeah, I'm caught up on my 'The world of Aro' reading, aka this website and am intrigued and excited by all the sweet travelling and stories and whatnot. Can't wait to do it myself! Oddly I am really wanting to hang out with you lately and missing you and a strange ex-roomatey sort of way... Kind of like we spent so much time together as roomates and then we weren't roomates anymore and now I'm like 'what the deuce?' (a phrase which ED has not been able to stop saying)and I miss hanging out. So yeah. I'm stoked for all your adventures. God Bless even more! -A/C-
Word up!
I miss both you and Ed in an ex-roommate sort of way (and Grant, too!) Funny that a majority of the roommates I´ve ever had are now living in one house!
Other notable ex-roommates:
-Nick from a two-week arts camp when I was 14 . . . who I later found out was gay . . . which explains why he spent 30 minutes each day blowdrying his hair.
-A kid whose name I can´t remember from a two week Shakespeare camp who I never really talked to except for one night when he told me he was thinking of meeting one of the girls at the camp for a hotel room tryst after the camp was over. He said he was rethinking morality since he started reading "The Secret of Dorien Grey" and found that the main character´s self-centered life style appealed to him. I tried to coach him out of this line of thinking and told him he might want to finish the darn book before coming to a premature conclusion about its message.
-Andrew Brown when I worked at Mount Rushmore, who was a thin, jittery kid from Liverpool. Between his accent and presistent stutter, I never understood what he was saying half the time.
I wonder if all three of them are living in a house together now? I would very much like to see that. But it also sounds like a reality show which I wouldn´t watch. Mostly because I don´t watch television in general, but also because everyone in my Spanish class seems to LOATHE reality TV, listing it among global problems like global warming and economic inequality, so I wouldn´t really be able to watch it without feeling guilty. I mean, if it´s on the same level as world hunger, wouldn´t that be the same as watching a child starve? And if it were my ex-roomates, would that be the same as watching my ex-roommates starve?
(Bonus tangent: so In Spanish there´s a word we would do well to pick up in English: telebasura -- Trash TV. Hurrah etymology!)
(Bonus roommate: My sister! But she doesn´t count because we had bunkbeds and Sesame Street sheets. Well, I mean, she does count, but . . . I´ll make it easy and say I´m only talking about non-family roommates, thereby avoiding offending any family members who I have shared a room with over the years)
I didn´t really mean to type so much about missing you guys without really saying anything ABOUT missing you guys, but Aaron, your comment was rather long, so maybe I have a secret need to type out longer comments than anyone else on my weblog. I also have a need to write a Spanish paper ASAP. Sadly, it will not be dealing with any of these topics.
(Bonus other roommate! Luke, who is my roommate here in Granada. He wants to be a dentist and always makes his bed and eats everything on his plate.)
Anyway, the point was that my Chapman ex-roommates all rule a ton, way more in fact than any past roommates. If there was an awesome scale, they would tip it. So what the duce? I´m going to go AWOL on you guys. But not really.
Speaking of roommates, my wonderful sophomore year roommate spent all last year in Sevilla. So, if you're planning a return visit and want tips on what's hot and what's not, let me know and I shall consult with the stunning Alejandra.
-Emilie
Dang, I wish I´d known about the stunning Alejandra before our Seville trip. We spent a long time wandering around that city, and I don´t think are planning on going back. but it was still pretty neat (if not completely stunning). As it stands, we got to eat at a sandwich shop with gigantic collusium-steps instead of tables and I bought a rad hat (not red).
oh, and other stuff happened, too.
If Sweet Home, OR is a real place, I want to move there. -A/C-
I was wondering when someone would just search for the slogan online . . . good job to Tylor for the detective work!
And I´ve actually BEEN to Sweet Home, Oregon. It´s OK. I don´t know if I´d say sweet, though. but then, it´s also not my home.
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