Liquid Assault
Snotty know it alls really get under my skin. I don’t imagine I’m the only one this is true for, but it just bugs the crap out of me when someone acts all superior or judgmental about anything. There are more than enough of them roaming the earth and to think that any company would […]
Personal Space
I like people more or less as much as the next guy. I am not particularly effusive in my affections but I’m not exactly cold either. I consider myself well adjusted, proper without being prudish and basically easy to get along with. On the whole, most people tend to respect those basic kinds of boundaries […]
U Can Touch This
How does something that was once so over-the-top cool plummet all the way down to punchline status? It always seems the higher you fly the farther you fall. Well, few folks fell further or harder than Canada’s own M.C. Hammer. The poor bugger went from platinum cufflinks and a thirty person strong entourage to begging […]
Hairy Pizza Leaves Me Cold
It’s pretty hard to resist commenting on advertising that apparently has the ability to induce epileptic seizures. Obviously, London’s 2010 Olympic logo was in my sights this week. I had a whole slew of things to rant about regarding the train wreck the whole thing has become. Even still, this stupendous example of focus group […]
Shell Game
Nobody likes oil companies. The price of gas seems to move around at random. It’s not hard to assume we’re being screwed no matter which way we turn. At fairly regular intervals we do retaliate by haranguing our local politicians into conducting the now familiar inquisitions into price fixing. These almost always come back negative […]
Dead & Not Loving It
You would think that death wouldn’t play the largest of roles in general commercial advertisements, except maybe those “Shady Pines” type of funeral home commercials where the silky smooth voice over mentions the term “loved ones” at least six times before coming in to land on lots of flowers, mountains and the odd spiritual verse […]
Life With Beer
Remember those certain, special nights at the bar? You know the ones where everything just seemed to click with a smoothness that bordered on perfection? Dinner was great, the conversation was easy and the laughter just spilled from all of you. Everything was funny and the pain in your stomach was from laughing too hard. […]
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 […]