Tag Archive
Absolutely Not the Ultimate Guide to Mad Men
Everybody’s favorite ad man, present company excluded, suave and eloquent Don Draper, returns to TV this Sunday night (March 25) on AMC for the 5th season of Mad Men, the four-time Emmy winning, politically incorrect drama about advertising in the 1960s. Forty-two times we’ve watched the inhabitants of mythical ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce [...]
Hurricane Coverage from your Favorite Creative Director
I wasn’t going to post a blog today, but I thought my Readers, especially my East Coast Readers, deserve something better from this Creative Director than what other broadcasters and bloggers are putting on the tube and online right now: namely, “What to Do to Prepare for Hurricane Irene,” “What to Do When Hurricane Irene [...]
REAR END YEAR END AWARDS Part 2 from Prolific Copywriter Awards Banquet
Well, it’s been quite a year so far. First, Stan publishes someone else’s blog ON MY BLOG. Then I publish a blog before it was completed. Things happen in threes, so I’d better watch out! To recap (especially for those of you who aren’t wearing a cap), this is Part 2 of my REAR END [...]
REAR END YEAR END AWARDS ANNOUNCED PART 1
If 2010 was any indication of what cultural treats we were in store for, the thousands of photos of George Bush eating a cat sort of let the cat out of the bag.
Freelance Creative Director’s Blog Stolen. Round up Stan!
Stan: So instead, I’m going to cancel the blog he had planned and run someone else’s blog instead! Right here!
Harriett: You’re going to run someone else’s blog right here on 10 Minutes of Brilliance? You wouldn’t!
Announcing My Rear End Awards! (I Mean, My Year End Awards!)
Abe: So, non-Keebler cookie making elves work all year long, for me, in my headquarters which is, I don’t know, let’s say, in the North Pole. They’ll have to make about a gazillion presents. When they’re done, in December, on, I don’t know, the 25th day. No, I’d better make it the 24th day. Then, I deliver all those presents to every boy and girl in the word in one night?
Hymie: Something like that, yes.
The Lone Ranger
So, I wanted my readers to know that if YOU promise not to change horses midstream, I’ll keep mixing up metaphors like pigs in a haystack.
Bugs, Murdering Seagulls, The Future of TV, Pooper Scooping Dogs and Others Way to Make $1,000,000
Stan: Goldenberg’s all over the place today. He started off with some random thoughts. That was OK, I guess, but now he’s talking about gun toting seagulls and pooper scooping dogs.
Hope this Short Blog Flies with my Readers
Have you ever seen the commercial where Sally Fields says that since she been taking Boniva, her osteoporosis is under control and now she’s back to normal. So is she’s back to normal, why can’t she fly.
Two wrongs don’t make it right to express your rights. Plus, the humor of that wacky, zany leader of Iran.
And, if you stick around long enough, we’ll end with the humor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran and the world’s leading nutter.
Big Bucks in Small Ideas. You could make gazillions!
I don’t have to work anymore. You know why? I’m rich. Filthy rich. Rich beyond my wildest dreams. I’ve made millions in advertising without ever leaving home. And the Good News is… you can, too. Imagine going to your mailbox every day and receiving checks of $2.40, $5.25, and yes, even $250,000. Sound impossible? It’s [...]
But First, A Few Words From Our Sponsors
I’ve probably written 500 TV commercials. I’m always been amazed, and as a professional, annoyed, at how many people have said to me, “I saw a great commercial last night.”
Sign up for my up to the minute blogs!
Prolific Copywriter