The AdHole

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 […]

Okay, I’ve been meaning to review this album for months now, but hey, twins happen. At least I’m posting it now so you can buy it as a last-minute Christmas gift. Anyway, let’s get to it.
If you flip through your memory bank – or perhaps just your iTunes library – to the summer of 1997 […]

If there’s one thing I truly do not understand, it’s when clients and even other creatives reject an ad because it is, in their words, “negative.” And I’m not talking about lines like “You’re an idiot if you don’t buy our made-in-China plastic wonder widget.” I mean ads that simply use words like “can’t,” “shouldn’t,” […]

For the past couple of years, I’ve gone on a bit of tirade about the use – or lack thereof – of the words “Christmas” in advertising aired during the Christmas season. It always seemed beyond ridiculous that retailers would rather risk offending the millions of people buying Christmas presents than risk offending those folks […]