Scott Meeson wrote:There's trouble across the pond?
Come one CLE and it's mindset CLE+ is a joke. A stage and charade built on hype, ad campaigns, and very little substance.
The other day, a "hipster" explained to me that "Downtown is the fastest growing part of Cleveland!" Really, in region and city that is shedding people faster than my dogs shed hair in spring, that is nothing but hyoe.
Meanwhile Lakewood, remains the steady rock in the region. (Through 4 administrations).
We had planned to release this card in response to Clevelanders that our last cards were too negative on their life, and the ability to enjoy it.
But Lakewoodites that thought the last were over the top, made us choose more positive ways to highlight Lakewood, and just how good life is here.
So we decided not to print the above card. New ones out soon!
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Re: Thank You Cleveland!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:23 am
by Grace O'Malley
Has anyone seen that video out to promote Cleveland? Done by a Kansas City agency, of course. I found it very poorly done, almost amateurish and hard to follow. Goodness knows what they paid for it. And now The latest controversy is it never mentioned the lake or metro parks and the guy in charge said it was because the lake didn't look so good.
You gotta see it for a good laugh.
Re: Thank You Cleveland!
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:49 pm
by Betsy Voinovich
Grace O'Malley wrote:Has anyone seen that video out to promote Cleveland? Done by a Kansas City agency, of course. I found it very poorly done, almost amateurish and hard to follow. Goodness knows what they paid for it. And now The latest controversy is it never mentioned the lake or metro parks and the guy in charge said it was because the lake didn't look so good.
You gotta see it for a good laugh.
Hi Grace---
Well---- I liked the song-- until it was paired with the captions. Apparently Cleveland has to have an inferiority complex or it doesn't have anything. The whole video is about how "what they say" is wrong.
"You may have heard the stories, heard the jokes..." Really? Is it the 70's? Is this about the river again? Really? Is this because that's all they really know about Cleveland in Kansas City?
They call Cleveland the birthplace of rock and roll and then show one of The Who's drumsets from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I think The Who is from England. Hmm.
"What 'They' never understood, is that while they were talking about us, we weren't listening."
Well obviously we were if we knew they were talking about us, and we knew that there were stories and jokes.
"We never followed 'Their' rules. We made our own."
Who is this "they" that we need to prove wrong?
"Never mainstream. Never meant to be. Always Cleveland." Well, if your sports teams winning is a main stream kind of thing, I think Cleveland would really like to be mainstream.
The video just falls apart if you repeat back what it is saying. It is pretty funny though there are some great images and places that are fun to go. I enjoyed seeing Matt Fish standing there. (But I think he was in Lakewood.)
Jim---
That photo of Cleveland is AWESOME. That really needs to be the next postcard. Maybe a different caption: "Lakewood. We like touching that scary city, b..ches." Something like that.
