So called "Ad Legend" Jerry Della Femina just did a review of a new history of women in advertising, "Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy," by Juliann Sivulka for Forbes Magazine. As you would expect from super blowhard douchenozzle Jerry -I own a grocery store in the Hamptons - Della Femina, he spends most of the review talking about himself. He even tells a story about some pathetic thing that happened to him in 1975. Which he then goes on to say... "It was a time, an era and a mood that is so accurately portrayed today on the Mad Men television show." No you fucktard... Mad Men takes place in 1960. That's fifteen fucking years before your pathetic story. No wonder he had to have his one and only book ghost written for him.
You do not want to meet this fucker in a dark alley!
Jerry Della Fossil
Posted by: adrefugee | November 15, 2008 at 08:24 AM
Bleech. I thought this Republican horror show had died years ago - burning in hell for his Reagan campaign work.
Oh - and to add insult to injury - my wife once forced me to eat at his shit heap restaurant in East Hampton. Highest freaking tab I ever had out there - and Ive had some high ones. What a douche.
Fuck him!
Posted by: Jacques Strappe | November 17, 2008 at 12:40 PM
You should drop by his agency on Broadway, its like an elephant graveyard -- the average age of the creatives is 65. And all they do is sit around and talk about the 60s.
Please, please retire. The agency world has passed you by.
Posted by: Joe Madison | November 17, 2008 at 02:46 PM
I actually interviewed there. The CD interviewing me says, You know Toyotathon? I say, Yes. He says, That was me. I say, Wow. He just stares at me. That was basically the end of the interview. I think he expected me to do a backflip around the room because I was in the presence of the genius who thought to attach the suffix thon to the noun Toyota.
I think his name was Jim Asswipian but Im not sure.
Posted by: Michael Doomberg | November 17, 2008 at 03:41 PM
Hey man, at least these guys got to party when the industry was still glam, instead of a freakin upscale sweatshop right?
Check this out. I am getting e-mail solicitations from temp agencies paying $27-33 an hour for concepting work on major accounts! Its unreal. And I assume there are people jumping at the chance to apply. Blasphemous. But a harbinger of things to come Im sure. Probably be a line of creatives lining up on 23rd street soon the way the gardeners do in Southern California, waiting for the CDs to cruise up in car services to pick up their day help.
Jeez, I do need a drink! Well, chin up old boys! You only go round once dont you?
Posted by: Lance Lauder | November 17, 2008 at 03:46 PM
23rd Street? What time?
Posted by: Marcel Merlot | November 17, 2008 at 03:49 PM
Aging creatives are like aging athletes -- really sad to look at.
Posted by: young_gun | November 17, 2008 at 08:44 PM
Young Gun,
No, unemployed creatives are like aging athletes - sad to look at. And Im sure youll find that out soon enough. You young gun you!
Posted by: Baba Obama | November 18, 2008 at 03:51 PM