Gay Commercial: Dream Ice Cream

A man in a hard hat walks down a set of stairs. Suddenly, he turns around and runs back up to the bathroom to put the toilet seat down, as the song "Dream" plays. He then grabs a tube of toothpaste and squeezes what's remaining towards the end of the tube. Clearly, he's suddenly trying to be thoughtful of the other person.

The next shot is of his partner, who stands in the living room daydreaming while eating ice cream and wearing a red silk bathrobe. He is brought back to reality when his actual partner shouts at the television as he's watching a sporting event, oblivious to his partner.

The tagline translates to: "Dreaming is allowed."

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Diplom Is
Brand: Dream
Ad Title: Hard Hat
Business Category: Confectionery/Candy/Gum
Media Outlets: Television
Country: Norway
Region: Europe
Agency: DDB Needham Worldwide
Year: 2003
Target: Mainstream

Gay Commercial: Dream Ice Cream

A man in a hard hat walks down a set of stairs. Suddenly, he turns around and runs back up to the bathroom to put the toilet seat down, as the song "Dream" plays. He then grabs a tube of toothpaste and squeezes what's remaining towards the end of the tube. Clearly, he's suddenly trying to be thoughtful of the other person.

The next shot is of his partner, who stands in the living room daydreaming while eating ice cream and wearing a red silk bathrobe. He is brought back to reality when his actual partner shouts at the television as he's watching a sporting event, oblivious to his partner.

The tagline translates to: "Dreaming is allowed."

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Diplom Is
Brand: Dream
Ad Title: Hard Hat
Business Category: Confectionery/Candy/Gum
Media Outlets: Television
Country: Norway
Region: Europe
Agency: DDB Needham Worldwide
Year: 2003
Target: Mainstream

WIP: The Lenght is Important!

For the next few days maybe you will notice that I'm reading less than usual; the reason is that I'm updating my LiveJournal to include a new tag, the lenght of the book. I will use three different parameters, short story, novella and novel, and I will try to update all the previous reviews to include this new tag. Hope it will be useful for new as my other main tag ;-) Elisa

WIP: The Lenght is Important!

For the next few days maybe you will notice that I'm reading less than usual; the reason is that I'm updating my LiveJournal to include a new tag, the lenght of the book. I will use three different parameters, short story, novella and novel, and I will try to update all the previous reviews to include this new tag. Hope it will be useful for new as my other main tag ;-) Elisa

Strongman by Denise Rossetti

You know that I'm not fond of fantasy in general, but I can say when I read a good book, and Strongman by Denise Rossetti is a good book. Truth be told she almost convinced me to read a menages not long ago thank to her interesting blurb and the very beautiful cover (Tailspin), but menages plus fantasy setting was really too much for me. So when Strongman came out, I quickly bought it, but for a reason or another, I didn't read it as soon as I bought it. And now I can say that it was a shame, since the story is really nice and the two characters are all I like in my man on man story.

Fortitude is a warrior, former mercenary and now roustabout in a circulating fair. Everyone in the fair respects Fort since he is the bigger and the strongest, but actually Fort is not the typical strong man without a brain. Fort knows how strong he is and he doesn't try to have all he wants only thanks to his body, he likes beautiful things, being them a fine china, or an embroidered blanket or the beautiful tumblers he sees everyday while they train. And there is a tumbler in particular he likes, Griffid. But Fort's likeness is purely aesthetic, he would never think to Griff as nothing else as a good tumbler who makes a very good show on stage. Fort was raised Straight Church, a very strictly religion which still considers sodomy a mortal sin, and even if he went far away from his home land, the strictly teachings of his youth still give him nightmares at night.

Griif is an easy man; he likes better women, but he sometime enjoyed also a man or two, and when he put his eyes on Fort, he is all for the conquest. He woos the man, he teases and plays, he at first thinks it is all a game. But more time he shares with Fort, more he realizes that have the man for a pleasure night is not all he wants. Fort is like an onion, he has many layers, and peeling them Griff risks to have tear on his eyes, but maybe also for joy. Fort is a man worth to fight for, and even if Griff is lithe and pretty, he is a strong fighter, one that never let go what or who is important for him.

I like very much how Fort and Griff's relationship develops, how it's not so easy for them to fall in love, since Fort's beliefs, even if wrong, are still implanted in his mind; Griff has to be patient and clever, ready to push when it's time, but also to back down when it's time for Fort to arrive to some conclusions for his own.

The setting is really nice, a medieval fantasy world that probably is common to the other two previous stories in the series, and so, if you have no problem with the menages or het stories, probably it's worth to try all the three stories together. Probably it would a shame to bond this fantasy world to only this story.

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419914973

Series: Phoenix Rising
1) Gift of the Goddess
2) Tailspin
3) Strongman

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Philip Fuller

Strongman by Denise Rossetti

You know that I'm not fond of fantasy in general, but I can say when I read a good book, and Strongman by Denise Rossetti is a good book. Truth be told she almost convinced me to read a menages not long ago thank to her interesting blurb and the very beautiful cover (Tailspin), but menages plus fantasy setting was really too much for me. So when Strongman came out, I quickly bought it, but for a reason or another, I didn't read it as soon as I bought it. And now I can say that it was a shame, since the story is really nice and the two characters are all I like in my man on man story.

Fortitude is a warrior, former mercenary and now roustabout in a circulating fair. Everyone in the fair respects Fort since he is the bigger and the strongest, but actually Fort is not the typical strong man without a brain. Fort knows how strong he is and he doesn't try to have all he wants only thanks to his body, he likes beautiful things, being them a fine china, or an embroidered blanket or the beautiful tumblers he sees everyday while they train. And there is a tumbler in particular he likes, Griffid. But Fort's likeness is purely aesthetic, he would never think to Griff as nothing else as a good tumbler who makes a very good show on stage. Fort was raised Straight Church, a very strictly religion which still considers sodomy a mortal sin, and even if he went far away from his home land, the strictly teachings of his youth still give him nightmares at night.

Griif is an easy man; he likes better women, but he sometime enjoyed also a man or two, and when he put his eyes on Fort, he is all for the conquest. He woos the man, he teases and plays, he at first thinks it is all a game. But more time he shares with Fort, more he realizes that have the man for a pleasure night is not all he wants. Fort is like an onion, he has many layers, and peeling them Griff risks to have tear on his eyes, but maybe also for joy. Fort is a man worth to fight for, and even if Griff is lithe and pretty, he is a strong fighter, one that never let go what or who is important for him.

I like very much how Fort and Griff's relationship develops, how it's not so easy for them to fall in love, since Fort's beliefs, even if wrong, are still implanted in his mind; Griff has to be patient and clever, ready to push when it's time, but also to back down when it's time for Fort to arrive to some conclusions for his own.

The setting is really nice, a medieval fantasy world that probably is common to the other two previous stories in the series, and so, if you have no problem with the menages or het stories, probably it's worth to try all the three stories together. Probably it would a shame to bond this fantasy world to only this story.

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419914973

Series: Phoenix Rising
1) Gift of the Goddess
2) Tailspin
3) Strongman

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Philip Fuller