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Larry Oakner offers an exhaustive history of funny radio spots, but our work is on TWO MEASLY PAGES. (The Robert Goulet spot for The Simpsons.) Come on, Larry, didn't we deserve three pages?
Broadcast/ Cable Copywriting, 7th Edition
Dr. Orlik included my work in a previous edition of this fine college text, but I'll have to buy this new edition to see if that's still true. And it'll only cost me $76!!!!! Textbooks: license to print money.
How to Be Like Walt
Stop it.
Flattered.
But stop.
Sheila and I are leaving for first vacation in three years: a week in San Francisco and Napa Valley. (Hope they have wine there.) To celebrate, posting this video of the Go-Gos singing "Vacation", cut to clips from "Lost," a show of which I've never seen a single frame. Until now. And with that task checked off, VACATION!
...but not captured in person. ("In person" = "in chipmunk.") Capture is too strong: I wouldn't really want to detain the little fellow – if he needs that tomato-y goodness so bad, he's welcome to his share. But it would be nice if he and his associates left a liiiiitle more for me. Let's not get greedy, munks! (I hope when this brazen booty-snatcher sees his pic on the internet, he'll be so embarrassed, he'll hide out for a while.)
What if stop signs were designed by advertising agency clients? This video suggests that chilling reality.
AdFreak calls it "another addition to the proud ranks of client-mocking, creatively cathartic videos" and Walt calls it "stomach-hurting funny!"
[Also just posted on AdSaint.com. It's that good.]
Thinking of his "7 Words You Can't Say On TV" inspired me to come up with my own list of "The 7 Words You CAN Say On TV, But Probably Shouldn't."
1. Pussywillow
2. Succubus
3. Cock-a-Doodle
4. Shitake
5. Screw-Top
6. Prickly
7. Buttinsky
George could top that, of course. See his last interview here. And, while we're at it, let's toast my favorite Carlinism: "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." (Recommended: Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George)
...with this review of Batman: Year One.
Seeing "Dark Knight" – what a ride! – sent me back to the shelf to reread this classic, the antecedent for many of the film's conceits, and still the greatest superhero graphic novel ever. (Sorry, Watchman fans.) In "Year One," you feel every blow and cheer every small victory as two flawed but principled men, Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne, confront a chilling, unprincipled city – and each other. Writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzuchelli at their respective bests. Though we might never get a literal film adaptation, the Christopher Nolan movies capture the book's raw vitality and momentum, and, I've heard, are pretty commercially successful, too.
(Batman: Year One can be purchased on Amazon, and you can get your own Visual Bookshelf on Facebook. Hangin' out there more. Addictive.)
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