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Apropos of absolutely nothing

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We love this commercial and were very pleased to see it again on TV the other night.
It always makes us smile. And that’s a very, very good thing.
Here’s the sign of a good commercial – for us, at least: We found ourselves online looking for it so we could share with you. As opposed to [...]

We hate to ask the question…

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But ask it we must:
How far off is the Tina Fey backlash?
Of course, we hope the answer is never or, at the very least, not for a hundred million billion years. But any time you are universally adored, much as Tina is right now, the backlash almost always follows soon after.
As long as it doesn’t [...]

Bad ideas in marketing

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No, Red Roof Inn, this is not a good idea.  We’ll admit we’re not country music fans, but even if we were, the thought of Phil Vassar hawking his new album or Web site or whatever in lieu of a regular wake-up call makes us want to, well, throw the phone across our hotel room. [...]

Re: We’d like to think…

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Once again, we’re not alone. And we SWEAR we had ours out before Gawker did. We SWEAR. We could go back and look at time stamps and what not, but whatever. We were there first.

We’d like to think…

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…That one big reason why AIG is in such financial ruin is because of those awful ads they’ve been running lately – the ones in which adorable little scamps share their overly mature financial concerns with their parents or each other, only to have their fears assuaged by the fact that they’re with AIG. (Oops! [...]

Re: Yes, we’re still alive

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And, apparently, we’re not alone, either. See? It’s not just us.
We feel much less guilty now.

Yes, we’re alive.

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Just busy. (Come to think of it – is there anything worse than the ’sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been really busy’ post? We think not. And now we’re guilty of it. We feel so dirty.)
We’ll be back with real content soon. We promise.