Taxes, right? You know I hate ‘em!  Actually, scratch that, I can give a rats ass about taxes.  I’ve pretty much played by the rules my whole adult life, so I usually get a tax return or at worst have to pay a few bucks to the state, so filling out a few forms (or [...]

Let’s be honest here, who didn’t see this one coming?  According to TechDirt this morning, LifeLock has to pay $12 million for bogus advertising, little actual protection and awful security.  If you don’t recall these ads, here’s one of the long form versions that would run on late night TV:

I remember when these spots started [...]

Man, do I frickin’ love the real world.  You really can’t beat it when it comes to serving up the crazy.  Sure, you can have your little movies about blue people and classic book characters re-imagined, but I’ll take me a good serving of good old fashioned, real world crazy any day.
For instance, according to [...]

I didn’t actually go to the Oscars, so if you’re looking for the dish on who was wearing what, you’re in the wrong place.  You’re probably thinking I’m going to review the ads that came on during the Oscars, but you would be wrong there as well, at least for now.  Outside of the fact [...]

I’m not part of the camp where I think we need to over protect kids; in fact, I think modern kids need to toughen the hell up before other countries figure out that we’ve raised a couple of generations of pussies and just invade our ass one day.  But, what is with [...]

You ever have that one friend of yours that doesn’t know not to tell a joke in front of the wrong person?  They’re the idiot that is blatantly racist, sexist, whatever right in front of your black girlfriend and then is honestly shocked when they get a drink thrown at their head?
Well that guy is [...]

Look, I dig a great dog as much as the next guy and I know this ad with all the cute dogs in it is cute, but seriously, do I need to bring up what commercials are really for in the first place again?

Beautifully shot, great music, fantastic editing and I swear that bulldog just [...]

If you’ve never checked out the site Oddly Specific, drop in and blow half a day looking through the postings, it’s a hoot.  Take this one for example…

Frankly, with my luck, I would end up with someone trying to tear all the hair off my junk rather than Miss Rio de Janeiro, so I think [...]

Oh, lucky, lucky day… I love it when crappy commercials fall in my lap.
Oddly enough, this find was the result of looking at what is actually a pretty great response commercial from Gillette to Dove’s new “I’m a Man!” commercial from the Super Bowl.

Sure, it took them about a month, but I have to admit, [...]

Not everybody that reads this blog is in the advertising business, so I want to start out with something that might blow your mind.  Really big companies, like Kimberly-Clark, who owns Cottonelle, spend a completely mind blowing amount of money on advertising… every, frickin’, year.
Seriously, you think you might have an idea of what their [...]