{"id":590,"date":"2007-12-07T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themovingcastle.com\/journal\/?p=590"},"modified":"2007-12-07T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:04:10","slug":"gushing-and-zany-yet-depressing-and-angsty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themovingcastle.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Gushing and Zany, Yet Depressing and Angsty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed two hateful and divergent trends.<\/p>\n<p>1. Overly friendly, gushing, zany copy in job descriptions that implies we are seeking a job in order to find a new group of scintillating friends.  &#8220;Send us a resume that will impress us!  We don&#8217;t care about your haircut!&#8221;  Spare me.  Advertising is like this too.  It&#8217;s all too cute.  This is destroying civilization.  <\/p>\n<p>and then<\/p>\n<p>2. Grim and off-putting Creed clones all over the radio interspersed with what appears to be an unholy combination of Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera that has developed into an unrelenting and uninspired academic style of processed and conceptually vacant music.  I am inclined to think that the existence of this music implies that civilization has already been destroyed, possibly by the gushing ad copy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed two hateful and divergent trends. 1. Overly friendly, gushing, zany copy in job descriptions that implies we are seeking a job in order to find a new group of scintillating friends. &#8220;Send us a resume that will impress us! We don&#8217;t care about your haircut!&#8221; Spare me. Advertising is like this too. 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