What Do Real Women Want?
Sometimes I really wish I was fourteen again. It’s not that I am particularly nostalgic for feelings of social inadequacy, daily embarrassment or even the general frustrations that come with not being cool enough. As it is, I continue to enjoy most of those emotions anyway. No, I yearn for a time where that most […]
Gellin’ Fido Out the Door
Some ads really get to me. I don’t mean they’re badly made, there’s just something about them that rubs the wrong way. And for me, seeing them somehow creates an explosion of bright red hostility that I can’t explain. It’s a form of road rage, or ad rage I guess. I wish I could claim […]
Absolut Advertising
And when the year 2007 came they ran out of ideas. Well, maybe not ran out, but Vin & Sprit AB, Sweden’s state run distillery did decide to shelve the advertising campaign that their most famous brand of vodka had become synonymous with over the last 25 years. Absolute Vodka is officially dropping its global […]
The Devil Inside?
Do you hear it? Listen close. It’s way down deep. That voice you hear but never want to listen to. It tells you that getting fit is not really that hard. Training for a fight or preparing to climb Mt. Everest. That’s hard. Waiting for a parking spot and making the decision to drive in […]
Somebody’s Watching You
How well does your friendly neighborhood advertiser know you? Rockwell may have been more than a cheesy eighties one-hit-wonder after all. Perhaps he was a true soothsayer instead of just a less-famous, Jackson family in-law. Think about it. Corporations and their advertisers process millions of pieces of data and sales information every day just to […]
Ap A-Go-Go
What is real? There is the basic “hit in the head with a brick” real. No arguments there. The reality is the concussion. You can also have the reality of a higher power that while not always easy to define is still realistic to a majority of humans on earth. I mean just look at […]
Boy Toy
Boys never grow up. Most women agree with this, of course. Most guys do too. It helps in maintaining the “totally selfish existence” illusion. This illusion comes in mighty handy when others casually suggest we act more responsibly or do something we’d rather not. If all we have to endure is a few eye rolls […]
We are People
The political ad generally comes in two forms. There’s the “smiling leader” ones where the candidate is happily slapping backs, hugging kids and relating to us “reg’lur folk” while the other is a basic “raw meat attack” ad. These attack ads almost always feature a photo of the target in question with mussed hair, an […]
Everybody Wins a Trophy Day
Saturn has always been an odd duck of a company. From the beginning they branded themselves as being a “different kind of car company.” Saturn had the ads showing their salespeople not applying pressure in their showrooms but instead giving out donuts and back rubs. They boasted of their “no-haggle-actual-real-price” formula to ensure buyers never again felt […]
Scared Straight: a PSA
I think it’s safe to say that drinking and driving has acquired a larger social stigma than it ever had before. Historically, it was not a biggie when tallying one’s significant lapses in judgment, (armed robbery, kidnapping, not recycling) but nowadays you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would even hint that hopping into […]