armchair cultural observation since 1995

TV commercials a blast

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“I not only dive for the mute button, but I end up having to close my windows so that the blast doesn’t affect by neighbors…I live on a cul-de-sac, and so the sound resonates.” –Congresswoman Anna Eshoo in an Associated Press article about Congress tackling TV commercial volume.

We all know commercials are loud, but a blast so loud you have to close the windows of your comfortable, air-conditioned house in suburbia? Aren’t the windows of houses in cul-de-sacs already closed 99 percent of the time anyway?

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