by Jason Fox | Dec 5, 2007 | Advertising, Christmas, Wonkiness |
My lovely wife and unborn, womb-dominating twins joined me in watching Rankin-Bass’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” last night. On actual network television. I like watching Christmas specials on air – even though they’re all available on DVD...
by Jason Fox | Oct 16, 2007 | Advertising, Wonkiness |
In the spirit of Microsoft Designs the iPod Packaging comes this nifty little example of what it takes for a site to get listed high in Google’s search results. Or, rather, what Google would have to do if forced to design this way.Not quite as funny, but still...
by Jason Fox | Sep 10, 2007 | Entertainment, Wonkiness |
Filed under “People Who Need to Shut Up,” comes a couple of nuggets from World’s Angriest Be-Sweatered Rapper Kanye West. It seems Kanye was upset at MTV’s decision to have Britney “The Pooch” Spears open the Video Music Awards (or...
by Jason Fox | Jul 16, 2007 | Advertising, Wonkiness |
M&C Saatchi, the 398th Saatchified agency for those counting, has developed yet another trademarked brandificationalistic mechanization for wowing mid-level marketing managers and others easily persuaded by shiny advertising jargon: One Word Equity.Young MC...
by Jason Fox | Jun 15, 2007 | Advertising, Wonkiness |
In case someone, somewhere out there was even remotely considering exhuming Celine Dion to sell anything to anyone for any reason, I offer these examples of why you should instead retire from advertising right now and spare us your “boomers love her”...
by Jason Fox | Jun 6, 2007 | Entertainment, Wonkiness |
And you thought there was no such thing. Sure, it’s been 20 years since he blue-eye souled his way into our hearts with sweet cliches and sweeter white-boy dancing. But does he really deserve this kind of treatment? Heck yeah! Hey, at least he still makes a good...
