Just like many other people trying to stretch their hard earned dollars during this challenging fiscal time, I have become a coupon clipper. Every Sunday the paper arrives and I dutifully recycle everything but the circulars which I then comb through with the intensity of a lion stalking a zebra. Very little excites me like [...]

The new Diesel campaign is out in various forms of dead tree media and it’s stupid… on purpose though, so I guess you could call it successful. There was a great book out awhile back called The Deviant’s Advantage and it spoke about how businesses, musicians, artists, and so forth get successful by doing something [...]

Look at this fucking watch, man! Just look at it!  It’s like a big throbbing member, but the throbbing member tells time! Can you feel the power? The throbbing power? Feel it, mother fucker, feel it!  It’s like a racing machine on the wrist, if that wrist was my cock! Sorry, the ad just took [...]

This is a new site and all, but it’s all the week before a major holiday (or a four day weekend if you want to look at it that way), so you’re lucky you’re getting a second post out of me at all, but after I found this little winner of a print ad in [...]

Advertising Age posted a great review of brands that are using “real” as a selling point in advertising, but then they effed it up with a really crappy headline, “Brands Continue to Keep It ‘Real,’ but for How Long?” (link).  “Keep it real?” Did you forget that you write for grownups? Plus, are you even [...]

I awoke from my beer induced haze this morning to see the AP headline, “Gillette to limit Woods’ role in its marketing” (link) and even with some of the alcohol rolling around in my body, I said to myself, “well that took longer than I thought it would.” Not just for the sponsors to start [...]

While you’re waiting for me to get my shit together and do my first post, here’s an incredibly well done piece on “12 ‘Sexy’ Ads That Will Give You Nightmares” by the fine folks over at Cracked.com. I’m not making any snap judgments here, but the number of German ads is a little disturbing… J. [...]