Is it just me or are birthdays generally known as a time for receiving gifts? I always thought that was the tradition. On my recent birthday my wife, family and friends all were nice enough to buy me tokens of their affection to mark the passing of another year. So maybe I was caught up in [...]

Growing up my mother imparted a few pearls of wisdom to us kids including this little nugget, “For free take! For buy waste time.” OK, I never really got the “waste time” thing and I’m probably horribly misquoting her but you get the point. Free is free! Grab what you can. In recently came across [...]

Derek Walker claims he is the “janitor, secretary and mailroom person” for Columbia, S.C. based agency, brown and browner advertising, but one of the big agencies should scoop him up because he’s really got something with his post on Advertising Age this morning. Here’s the heart of his rant: “doing crappy work actually costs more [...]

Sure, I haven’t posted in awhile, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hate bad ads with the fire of a thousand suns.  Take this goofy thing from Samsung: Sure, you may see a guy throwing business cards at balloons, but all I see is a guy littering in the name of making a very obvious [...]