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Following up on this earlier post, isn’t it interesting that some of the most creative product on television these days is in commercials?
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He’s back
Tiger Woods returned from major knee surgery to make his first appearance of the PGA Tour season this week, although Tim Clark made it a brief initial appearance. Meanwhile, Woods’ major sponsor Nike rolled out this commercial to celebrate Woods’ … Continue reading
Campaigning in 2008
Although things aren’t going so well for the McCain-Palin campaign, it looks as if they have at least locked up The Villages, the golf-course retirement community in Florida that runs those cheesy commercials during PGA Tour golf tournament telecasts: With … Continue reading
The British have a way of putting things
Charlie Brooker, writing in The Guardian about the dreadful quality of Christmas season television commercials, nails the line of the day (H/T Tim Worstall) with regard to the latest ad featuring those British icons, the Spice Girls: Speaking of embarrassments, … Continue reading
Defending Stoogology
Christopher Hitchens wrote this Vanity Fair piece earlier this year in which he explains why men are generally funnier than women. Dubuque (Iowa) Tribune-Herald columnist Rebecca Christian took offense to Hitchens’ article (her column is not online) and, in so … Continue reading
Saves you money!
In this column, Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy profiles Gallery Furniture owner “Mattress Mac” Jim McIngvale, who transformed a run-down location on Houston’s near northside over the past 20 years into a furniture sale and distribution center that generates over … Continue reading
All in the Family
Based on this article, it’s safe to say that the family get-togethers of New Orleans Saints and former Austin Westlake High School quarterback Drew Brees aren’t the stuff of a Norman Rockwell painting: New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has … Continue reading
What Starts Here Changes the World
The University of Texas is on quite a roll these days, and in more ways that simply its national championship-caliber football team. UT just rolled out its innovative new advertising campaign, a series of nine 30 second commercials with the … Continue reading
The Lord of Regulation stumbles
Well, Eliot Spitzer has had better days at the office than yesterday. First, Mr. Spitzer finally chose not to retry (persecute ?) former Bank of America Corp. broker Theodore Sihpol III, who was acquitted on 29 of 34 criminal charges … Continue reading
“Who’s laughing now, Mister?”
During the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, Lexus has been running a clever series of commercials featuring U.S. tennis star Andy Roddick. The series — called “On the Road with Andy Roddick” — features five different people talking to Mr. Roddick … Continue reading