by Jason Fox | May 10, 2011 | Advertising |
Once upon a time, in a city far, far away, I worked on the Walmart account. At that time, Walmart had been running their Real People spots for over 20 years, and I was but one creative cog of many to be plugged into the machine over the years. As creatives, our goal...
by Jason Fox | May 2, 2011 | Idle Chatter |
Note: For the May 2011 issue of Chatter magazine, the staff produced a type of choose-your-own-adventure thread that led through the editorial. In keeping with this theme, my back-of-the-mag column became a flowchart. Because flowcharts are trendy these days and...
by Jason Fox | Apr 28, 2011 | Dogs |
He wasn’t even my dog. He was my parents’ dog, the first to be solely theirs after the passing of Boomer, the dog we brought home from the animal shelter a month after I turned nine years old in 1981. Boomer had lived a good life by any measure of canine...
by Jason Fox | Apr 7, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’ve loved Porsche cars since I was 13 years old. Our neighbor at the time was a dentist, and he made the wise decision to trade in some root canal graft (and an ’84 Corvette) for a silver 944 Turbo – a model that debuted that year. It was, without a...
by Jason Fox | Mar 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Over the weekend, comedian and duck ventriloquist Gilbert Gottfried tweeted what are technically referred to as jokes about the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The one that’s laid waste to billions of dollars of property, several nuclear power plants...