I decided to write a blog post to kill some time while I was on my flight from Hartsfield-Jackson to JFK. Here’s what was on my mind!
On the eve of the 9th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I find myself en route to the epicenter of the horror that took place nearly a decade ago.
The lack of a personal media center on this Boeing 757 makes for a nice change of pace, and allows me to just sit back and think. I thought about a post that I wrote a few months ago titled something like “The Shivers Factor.” The post focused around the idea of an ad, probably a commercial, that tugs at the heartstrings, making an emotional connection with the viewer at some level.
Since writing that original post, I think I see some common ground amongst all of these hair-raising ads. All of these ads share a level of authenticity; we all know when watching these spots that they are both serious and real. Like a WWII soldier returning to the docks of Pearl Harbor or the beaches of Normandy, I will surely get the heaviest dose of authentic shivers of my life when I visit Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan on the anniversary of that tragic day.
***So it turns out I didn’t make it to Ground Zero, partly because of the hoards of people there on the anniversary, and partly due to the fact that my Georgia Bulldogs were playing their first SEC game of the year. We managed to fill The Village Pourhouse in the East Village with Dawg fans like myself!
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