A couple years back, McDonald’s put out a web ad that I, at the time, thought might have been the funniest goddamn thing ever. See, it’s one of them flashing banner ads featuring a curly-haired teenage moppet longingly staring at a burger while the words “Double Cheeseburger? I’d hit it.” flash in the background. See [...]

Those of us in the advertising biz (“biz” is what those of us in the advertising biz like to use in place of “business”) get really excited when the Super Bowl rolls around each year. It’s not because we like football. We hate physical exertion. No, what we really like is all the cool advertisements. [...]

Have you noticed they haven’t made any memorable Christmas specials in the last forty years? The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Charlie Brown Christmas, they’re all from back in the ’60s. Since then, nothing but garbage.
I felt it was just about time someone did something about that, so I have made my [...]

The downside to watching as much television as I do is that occasionally you’ll see some of the advertisements enough times to drive you to murder. This is made worse when said advertisements include catchy jingles, meant to drive themselves into your head and remind you of the products they’re advertising while you’re shopping for [...]

I usually try to ignore commercials when I watch television. If I can’t at least ignore them, I’ll just let them wash over me, saturating myself with slogans and jingles and catchphrases until none of it means anything anymore. It’s better than actually paying attention to them and requires less effort than it would take [...]

YARR!!! Happy Lame Internet Meme Day!
As a card-carrying member of the Internet community, it is my legal duty to celebrate all Internet-related holidays. As such, today being International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I am legally bound to speak like a pirate. Yar. Mizzenmast. So this is the obligatory pirate blog post, which will be [...]

Want to know how I can tell that I’m getting old? Because I’ve reached the stage where I become angered by commercials to the point where I feel the need to write about it. Oh, well. At least I’m not sending it the editor of the local newspaper. Nope. I’m blogging about it. And now [...]

We are all consumers. It could be argued that we can more readily recognize major corporate brand symbols, such as Nike’s Swoosh, McDonald’s Arch and Apple’s…well, apple than we can recognize the current president, George Washington, how many Senators there are, or just about any other benchmark of Americanness. We are fast becoming less American [...]

As the political season heats up and the media wheels start grinding, take a moment and reflect with this classic Mr. Show sketch:
“You f&@!ed with the wrong guys, Reverend!”

I’m often asked what I think Armageddon will look like. Why everyone always asks me this, I don’t know. I assume it’s because I kind of look like Jesus. But up until recently, my answer has always been lots of flames, blood running through the streets, and maybe just a little gnashing and grinding of [...]