By BRAVETTA HASSELL Scene Writer on May 14, 2012, at 10:48 AM Updated on 5/14 at 7:55 PM
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Ever notice how just about any question you can think of can be answered on the Internet? Well, attempted to be answered on the Internet?
‘How should I pick my car insurance?’ ‘Why do you have to let cookie dough chill?’ ‘How do I know my neighborhood’s safe?’ I have a bad cough and a fever, should I go to the doctor?’ ‘Should I tell my sister her husband’s having an affair…with me?’ ‘Should I sell my car?’ ‘Should I buy an iPad?'
Who wouldn’t want a little counsel before making a monumental decision, I think to myself. But sometimes, doing a little bit of research and taking the leap on an inconsequential decision like buying an Apple item is so much easier than, er, typing a question into an answer forum, apologizing for being silly for asking and then waiting… And for answer, no less, from some person, who may not have any personal experience with your problem and with a photo or some weird icon or some avatar that may not even look like the person in the first place?
So I smiled and chuckled to myself after coming across “Ask a Grown Man,” on Vimeo. It’s a video series in which teen girls can write in their urgent boy queries to male celebrities –asking the type of questions you’d find in teen magazines circa the 1990s. In today’s mags? God, who knows.
The most recent, Ask a Grown Man, man: "Mad Men’s" Jon Hamm. In his video, a scruffy-looking Hamm (maybe it's morning or maybe late at night) answers five questions ranging from Do guys get freaked out by stylish girls? to What should I do about this flip flopper guy who likes me one day and doesn’t the next?
Hamm, slightly gruff, but likable replies with a succinct and sound answer:
“Well Brittany, you’re 16ish, so I’m guessing he’s around the same age. Give the guy a break…the world’s your oyster, you’ll be just fine.”
“Don’t define yourself by who wants to get with you," Hamm says. "I’m sure you’re a lovely person, Brittany.”
It may not be a dear friend’s words but at least you know who you are talking to. Whether the advice coming from a celebrity makes it that much more legitimate or not, it’s amusing to hear his or her advice on the everyday things with which us normal folk deal.
“I’m 41 years old,” Hamm says concluding the Q &A session. “Doesn’t mean you have to pay attention to me but, it’s you know, probably in your best interest.”
“You’re probably all too young to watch ‘Mad Men’ so uh, enjoy ‘The Hunger Games.’”
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