Commercials, if they’re good, capture and transmit back the sense and mood of the masses quickly. They have to – how can you sell stuff if you’re completely tone-deaf to what’s going on around you? Imagine...
All summer we’ve been hectored to get our butts into theatres NOW or risk missing whatever “most important pop-cultural touchstone” of a film event happens to be occurring that upcoming weekend. Well, this...
Sears is sexy? Pshaw. Sears is genetically incapable of being sexy. They’re too middle of the road, too reserved, too…nerdy. Heck, most of their stores I’ve been inside have the feel of an oversized thrift...
Even charities need to advertise. Every good cause, no matter how well known, accepted or funded, still needs to buckle down and work at raising awareness and cash. Over the years, many charitable organizations...
Fame is intoxicating. At least it must be. Look what it’s done for Mel Gibson. Being drunk on fame is about the only excuse Riggs has left these days. And yet even as the daisy chain of celeb implosions continues...
Around about 1992 I became ridiculously convinced of my own wonderfulness. Just a few years removed from high school, I had (by that point) tucked some college under my belt, gotten a...
Sex is a powerful tool when it comes to moving the world forward. Obviously it’s a fairly necessary manoeuvre when it comes to the physical emergence of future generations but it also plays a pretty significant...
The grass is always greener. When we’re young, we want to be older. When we’re finally older, we want to be young. How insane is it to spend the first half of our lives pulling every trick in the book to age...
Nobody likes bad guys. Even bad guys don’t like bad guys. The reason is that no one actually thinks they’re a bad guy. Do you think serial killers look at the face in the mirror (theirs, not the one they just...
Earth day is right around the corner so get ready to stand up, spread your arms wide and give saintly, old momma nature a great, big loving hug. But you better make damn sure you’re wearing renewable socks and...
Fashion always seems like such a con. You watch chopstick-legged fillies stomp up and down the runway with looks on their faces hinting more at severe indigestion (which is kind of funny when you figure they...
“A” is for advertising. It’s also for artful, acumen, attorney, attack and ass-hat. As luck would have it, “A” is also for Apple, the computer firm that personifies these traits best. It wasn’t always...
Hands down, one of the best movie car chases of all time has to be the Steve McQueen Mustang-Charger chase from “Bullitt.” Those cars absolutely tore up the streets of San Francisco, and did it at real speed...
Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar. I spend a lot of time sniffing the corners of advertising looking for hidden meanings, bigger messages or universal truths. And yes, this hunt (and I) can get more than a...
The basic premise behind the “Good Samaritan” is someone who helps out a stranger for no reason other than their ability to help when no one else can. There is no specific benefit, no personal gain and no...