The AdHole

A couple of weeks ago I helped out a client with a rather substantial pitch. For reasons I won’t go into here, coming up with a suitable tagline was both more important than usual and also more difficult. So while my partner and I toiled away on overall concepts, I also banged out line after […]

Are you like me? Are you excited about the hot-spicy-hot advertising we’re about to see during two weeks of political conventions?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
See you on the other side,
Fox

On Saturday, August 16, 2008, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain sat down, individually, with Rick Warren, author of uber-best-seller “The Purpose Driven Life” and pastor of the Saddleback Church where the forum took place. While enough hot air has been spewed about this event to warm Minneapolis for all of January, I haven’t […]

Call me a jingoistic troglodyte if you must, but I don’t watch the Olympics to foster a feeling of global connectedness deep within my bosom. With apologies to Visa, I was not chanting “Go world!” as I watched Michael Phelps win by one one-hundredth of a second over Milorad Cavic or Jason Lezak track down […]

Steffan Postaer, currently Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at Euro RSCG Chicago (and the guy of whom you were jealous when you saw those Altoids ads back in the day), has written a new book entitled “The Happy Soul Industry.” The book is, in Steffan’s words “a modern fable about God and advertising. God looks […]

As I wrote a couple of weeks ago in this post, former ad jockey and all-around stand-up guy PK Gillock is attempting to break the Guinness record for karaoke singing. He’s doing this for charity and not merely to be a nasty fellow. Since his charity earns money just by using their site as a […]