The AdHole

While three weeks technically remain on the calendar first developed by Rome-based insurance salesman Stephanus “Stevie” Stephanius (”Life. Home. Chariot.”) in 24 B.C., I feel comfortable in revealing this year’s Worst of the Worst in TV advertising. This spot originally broke (as far I can tell) in March of this year. And in the nine […]

In the 3 1/2 years since I started the sporadic musifying that is The AdHole, I have promoted my own work only once. This has not been out of humility. Rather, the bulk of those 42 months was spent as a self-employed freelancer. As anyone who has freelanced knows, even when a project turns out […]

The joy of WordPress upgrades has wreaked havoc on The AdHole. All posts have been restored (I think), but I will have to redo Categories, Links and the About section myself. Since I have forgotten whatever PHP I had to learn when I first set this up as WP blog, things should get interesting. And […]

Well, we’re loading up the family truckster and heading to lovely Independence, Missouri, tomorrow to spend Christmas with my family. From there it’s on to extreme southeast Iowa to commune with Megan’s people on the farm. Eat. Bloat. Repeat.
Are we crazy to drive 1,500 miles round trip with a pair of 11-month-old nutjobs in the […]

“Legend” in the bigfoot, Atlantis or spooklight sense. WhoIsJasonFox.com has been updated to March ‘08. New hilarity starts in August ‘07. So get reading.
Later,
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It’s no secret that we’ve recently doubled the number of humans living within our household. And this domestic expansion necessitates other changes, as well. Namely, I must forego the life of a freelancer and return to the agency world.
Frankly, I’m glad.
Freelancing has been a nice break, after 13 non-stop years of ad agency hijinx and […]

The kiddos have been home for about 10 days now. (For more info, visit here.) It’s been a wonderful, exhausting, stressful, happy whirlwind. They’re just so awesome. We’ve been so awesomely blessed. And when one or both of the little boogers can’t quite settle down, I like to sing them this song I wrote just […]

This morning, as usual, I fed Pancake – The Cutest Dog Ever Created by the Lord™ – his breakfast and then went about eating my own. Upon returning to the kitchen, I looked in his bowl to find he’d left us his very own Valentine.

It’s not quite a picture of Jesus, Elvis or Lincoln, […]

I apologize for this announcement not having the production values of the original “Best. AdHole. Ever.” but, frankly, I’m tired. And will be for the next 18 years. So here’s the scoop for now:
January 26, 2008 – The preferred gestational period for babies of human descent is 40 weeks. So when the twins – okay, […]

I don’t know what’s happened to my friend and fellow writer Tony Vinh, but the Joy of Advertising has finally cracked his psyche and probably his buttery-smooth Pan-Asian skin. How else can you explain him showing up on ABC’s Dance Wars: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann vs. Predator? He’s going by the name Mariel – an […]