While watching Pregnant in Heels, there was a Pampers commercial (which is definitely in the predicted demographic for such a show). It starts off with a baby perhaps a year or 18 months trying to get into a dining chair. A narrator calls it the vertical chair climb ( Read more... )

"Olympic tennis players 'so-and-so' and 'so-and-so' do a lot of sending and receiving, sending and receiving, sending…"

This new Chase commercial, featuring an Olympic doubles team, is for their new cell-phone service that makes it easy to send money from one account to another. As a tennis player who plays a lot of doubles, it catches my attention ( Read more... )

In the New York areas, there are commercials, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg, to convince viewers to quit smoking. To be honest, they're quite effective: startling, gruesome, tragic. Most of them are about all the health effects of long-term smoking, and depict all sorts of people with all sorts of maladies because of smoking ( Read more... )

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Title: The Lady in Red
Rating: K
Word Count: 3838
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me, except the ads' products. But you can have those if you want them.
Summary: Mix a bunch of Slytherins, a business, and a Gryffindor in need of a job, and what do you get? Well, certainly not a TV sitcom.
Warnings: None.
Author's Note: Finally getting around to posting ( Read more... )

Signed up for another fest!


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Title: Uncertainty
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1499
Notes/Warnings: angst, substance abuse, happy hopeful ending
Summary: He likes the feeling of not being alone. He likes being able to pretend he's normal, happy, cared for.

Is it a matter of life and death? This feeling of helplessness, uncertainty, desperation. Is it a matter of good and bad, of just ( Read more... )

Posted at Dramione Drabbles.

Waiting Up For Santa

Hermione cannot recall how long she has been waiting for Santa when she hears it, softly, from afar; "Ho ho ho!"

Again, closer; "Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!"

It's Draco's voice. She could recognize it anywhere.

The fire jumps to life and Hermione jumps to her feet. Out comes Draco, a fake white beard ( Read more... )