Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Brand USA.

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Karen Hughes, a Bush crony announced today that she's leaving her job as undersecretary of state. In that job she was responsible for im...
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Miami and Detroit.

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Just a little over two years ago I went to a portfolio review in New York sponsored by the Miami Ad School. I was so impressed I offered job...
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A metaphor for many things. Too many.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Money.

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I just heard a report on NPR about a dam built in Mosul, Iraq under US auspices that was apparently constructed on swampy ground and, so, re...
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360-degree reviews.

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Of all the nonsense visited upon the world by Human Resources professionals (even the term "human resources" makes me gag. So tech...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Introducing the "Worsties."

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Ad Aged has invented a new advertising award. One that, despite the proliferation of self-congratulation that infects this industry, hasn...
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I know we destroy the polar ice-cap and may possibly threaten every carbon-based life-form on Earth, but some really good people drive us.

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Hummer's latest defilement of what was once God's green Earth is so horrendous I feel like quoting Sartre, to wit: "I laughed s...
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Everything's a 'mash-up.' And so can you.

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Two of today's most annoying cliches are in the title above. Ad-Something just did a "Creative Mash-Up" conference. What the h...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

More on Applebee's.

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The new commercials for Applebee's are airing during the World Series. They are even worse than I thought they'd be. They feature a ...
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Steal a base, get a taco.

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Taco Bell, the company running and running and running one of the most god-awful commercials I've ever seen during the baseball post-sea...