by Jason Fox | Dec 1, 2013 | Idle Chatter |
As the rising tides of Yule commence breaking their whitecaps of nog upon the shores of discounted flat-screen TVs, I am moved to put down my Bartlett’s Guide to Less Familiar Metaphors and Idioms of Ill Repute, toss another copy of Kenny G’s “Miracles: The Holiday...
by Jason Fox | Nov 4, 2013 | Idle Chatter |
As Thanksgiving and its attendant carbohydrates descend upon us, Chatter has once again hopped in the eBay-sourced DeLorean, fired up the flux capacitor and scared the bejeepers out of Michael J. Fox all in the name of Wolf Blitzer-level journalism (breathe) as we...
by Jason Fox | Sep 29, 2013 | Idle Chatter |
As I write this in late August, in the year of our Lord Vader 36, my eldest loinfruits, Gideon and Charlotte, have been official kindergarten students for two and a half weeks. So far, so good. Neither has relinquished their nascent grasps on Christianity to please...
by Jason Fox | Aug 4, 2013 | Idle Chatter |
Plagues. Can’t live with ’em, can’t enjoy a proper pharaoh smackdown without ’em. And while most of us are familiar with the Ten Plagues of Egypt chronicled in (no, not I or II Chronicles) Exodus chapters 5 – 11, few of us know why God chose these specific...
by Jason Fox | Jul 19, 2013 | Advertising |
Fixing a brand is hard. Rarely does salvation arrive in the form of one product, tag line, commercial or initiative because a broken brand is rarely ill in just one area of operations. This fact, obvious though it should be, seems lost on too many brands. Forget...