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Friday, October 23, 2009

City Last Night...

Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:47 AM

...while watching Project Runway... I saw perhaps the single worst campaign commercial ever made. Bad sound, shitty lighting, unflattering camera angles. It was a total horror show. It was an ad for Nick Licata that made me want to vote against him—The Stranger endorsed Nick—for purely aesthetic grounds. But I can't find it anywhere on his website or on YouTube. Did I hallucinate it? Did anyone else see it?

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You don't fast forward through commercials? Should we really take you as an expert about our culture?

Posted by idaho on October 23, 2009 at 9:55 AM

Yes it looks like it was made by a 13 year old who just learned how to use a computer. Taking the hat off in the beginning? Yeah real classy.

Posted by erik1984 on October 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM

I didn't see that one, but McGinn has an ad that makes me cringe. Black and white-- looks more like it was produced by the opposition. I am afraid progressives are going to take a whopping in this election.

Posted by onthequest4peace on October 23, 2009 at 10:06 AM

It was kind of black and white.

It sucked.

(and I voted for Nick)

Posted by Will in Seattle

on October 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM

I love Nick Licata and I hope people see beyond the ad if it's so bad. He's proven himself again and again and can always be counted on in the fight for the disenfranchised.
I remember two or so years ago he wrote an editorial (Times? PI?) about the need for some health care reform--and that was long before it was a national topic.

Go Nick. Hearts from me!!

Posted by alion on October 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Truly, he'd have been better off with no ad at all!

Posted by Katie B on October 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM

That grin on his face at the end is scary.

Posted by crazycatguy on October 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM

I saw it last night and thought the same thing. There's no excuse for that these days.

Posted by tiktok on October 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Oh, perfect! Only a gay man, only a gay man would vote against a candidate because of an aesthetically poor campaign ad!

Posted by Chris in Vancouver WA on October 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM

BTW, too bad Nicholas got booted. I was developing a bit of a crush.

Posted by Chris in Vancouver WA on October 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Dan, when you are out socializing with Anderson Cooper, does he make swear to not reveal that he is gay?

Posted by Dipshit on October 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM

I don't think there would be much point in that, @11. He's not fooling anybody as it is.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on October 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Nick Licata brings no economic or cultural value to this city

Posted by clint on October 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM

Yes 12, but he insists on maintaining plausible deniability. I have it from a good source that you can't get within a mile of his Manhattan duplex without being vetted. Everyone in the gay press is sworn to secracy.

Posted by JO Mama on October 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM