Sour Apple

I recently watched the new Kevin Smith film, "Zack and Miri Make A Porno" and I had to ask, "I wonder what Apple thinks about Justin Long's career choices."

Justin Long came into the enormously famous Mac vs. PC campaign just as his career started to take off. It can be argued that the commercials are a success partly because of Justin Long, or Long's only successful because of the commercials. Chicken or the Egg? It doesn't really matter.

Lately, Long has been making more adult choices regarding what movies he'll make. It started off with awful family comedies like "Herbie: Fully Loaded" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks". Lately however, that boy has been hanging around with a tough crowd (which includes people like Seth Rogen & Bruce Willis). In "Zack and Miri Make A Porno", Justin Long plays a character by the name of Brandon St. Randy, a gay porn star who introduces Zack to the idea of making money by bumping downstairs ugglies on camera for money. Now, my issue isn't that he's gay. It's that he's a pornstar. The porn industry has been getting a lot of attention these days, but I wouldn't say it's at all mainstream. The things Brandon St. Randy describes doing to people isn't something the casual porn viewer has probably ever witnessed, or would at least honestly claim to others.

Does a separate character which isn't at all related with the Mac brand have a negative influence in Apple? Or is it simply creative expression? I suppose it's also a form of synergy. Amateur porn is on the internet. Mac computers access the internet. Mac is porn. Wow, Algebra is easier than I thought...

All I can say is if Justin Long were a PC and not a Mac I bet his career would be very different.

Now let's see what this Mac can find...