The AdHole

Yay = “Yay! We won a gold Telly! Wait, is that first or second place?”
Yea = Old-fashioned way of spelling “yay” (see old “Peanuts” comic strips).
Yeah = “Did you eat the last donut, Fox?” “Yeah, sure did.”
Later,
Fox

Hal Riney passed away yesterday after a bout with cancer. If you don’t know who Hal Riney is, and you’re in the industry, please remove yourself from the industry. Now.
A great writer.
A great voice-over artist.
A guy who brought us Ernest & Julio Gallo, Bartles & Jaymes and the Saturn car company launch campaign.
A guy who […]

Last year, I proffered this post about Easter and its religious significance, particularly to me. I will not attempt to revisit or improve upon those thoughts this year. Maybe next year when the twins sleep in more than 15 nanosecond increments I’ll have something more profound to say.
Instead, I’ll offer you a commercial I’ve been […]

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 […]