by Jason Fox | Oct 3, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
Halloween is once again upon us. For the supremely ill informed out there, Halloween is a quasi-holiday for which not even the government shuts down – a riddle, wrapped in a bite-size Laffy Taffy, inside a Milk Dud. In other words, nearly impenetrable with...
by Jason Fox | Sep 16, 2010 | Uncategorized |
I’ve been rolling around the ad industry for over 15 years now, and if there’s one thing I can say without equivocation it’s that we are all really, really good at talking. Sometimes, like a blathering slot machine, we discuss meaningful things and...
by Jason Fox | Sep 5, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
It’s September in Texas. That special time of year when everyone undergoes mass hypnosis to convince themselves that any temperature under 89 degrees Fahrenheit qualifies as autumnal, and high school football erupts across the Texas plains. Ah, Texas football....
by Jason Fox | Aug 1, 2010 | Idle Chatter |
It always started just after the Fourth of July. The incessant thrum-thrum-thrumming of what are correctly termed cicadas, but what my family, in honor of John the Baptist, called locusts. (Although we never ate them with honey. Or without.) “Hear that?”...
by Jason Fox | Jul 19, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Since the dawn of marketing communications (and approximately 16 seconds before that term was shortened into the insufferable mash-up “marcomm”), advertising agencies and clients alike have fallen into the same trap over and over and over again. No, not...
