I once loved this country. Even signed up to put my life on the line for it. Of course I really had no choice, since college was too expensive for my family. And while I happened to serve during peacetime, there I was – an airman full of pride serving his country honorably. I believed in our diversity as our common strength. I bled red, white, and blue. As I grew older I saw how things really worked in America…
After school we laughed for a bit, and then she retreated to her bedroom where she would spend the next hour or so studying math, Spanish, and social studies. A smile curled at the edges of her mouth, though her eyes were contradictory. The door closed – and I drifted away to the previous summer when we were all together in a foreign land surrounded by lush jungles and waterways teeming with wildlife. We were on vacation – carefree and…
Dear Esurance, First, let me say that your Super Bowl advertising concept was genius in this age of digital media. Well done. But let’s be honest, once someone wins, they’re going to get their picture taken with a big check, the story will linger for a day or so – maybe garnering some attention from CNN or Fox – then disappear. You’ll have made a great commercial, gotten some serious ambassadorship out of it (at least for a couple days)…
This weekend you’re going to see a lot of great commercials. Or rather, you’re going to see a lot of commercials that people have spent months on creating, producing, and getting ready to run during the Super Bowl. Some will be funny. Some will be touching. Some will be deceptive. Some will even suck the paint off of the hood of Danica Patrick’s race car. And yes, there might even be a couple that actually feature the benefits of the product…
You’ve seen the ads. The cute little black girl with a white mother who pours Cheerios on her black dad’s heart because mom said Cheerios is heart-healthy. It’s precious. And it broke a lot of rules. The kind of rules that prime time television broke with Mr. and Mrs. Willis on The Jeffersons, or even Jodie Dallas from Soap. http://youtu.be/VWaEKkpfJFA Well, there was so much press that came out of this first spot, that Cheerios recently made another. And it’s…
If you’ve watched any of the NFL Playoffs this season you’ve no doubt seen the H&R Block TV commercials featuring a beer vendor at a football stadium putting blocks money onto empty seats, while a smart-looking white guy with a green bow tie tells us that last year Americans who did their own taxes overpaid by a billion dollars. A BILLION. And that a billion dollars is enough to put $500 onto every seat in every pro football stadium in…
