Answers to recent Tom queries...
Sobieski Vodka... Fuck, you have very esoteric tastes in booze, Tom. And, I'll bet it costs an arm and a leg. Wow... Just checked it out... $10.00 a bottle. You cheap bastard!
Airline accounts... Yes, I've worked on many... From the sheer unadulterated luxury of Swissair, to the awfulness of Trans-Caribbean, who flew fourth hand planes and made you sit on milk crates (well that's what they felt like!) And yes, I knew the Fifth Dimension when they were still in the Fourth.
Punctuation... It's another TypePad fuck up. They are working on it. I'll keep bugging them. At least they don't block the fucking swearing! As per the Joe Hellers item: A friend wrote to the local paper concerning breaching damns to allow salmon to go upstream to fuck. He used the word "damn" between every other word in the letter... Very funny. The paper deleted all the "damns" and it made no sense. But they still ran it. Welcome to Idaho.
Check out the girl's hat!!!
Sobieski is the vodka that the immortal Auntie Christ dropped off in the mail room for me for my winning bet on Barack Obama. The head of the mailroom (John Liburd) called me and wondered where the Brunello di Montalcino from my winning Sarah Palin bet was, that even the temps in the mailroom wouldnt touch the Sobie and he was messengering to my apartment before it started corroding the postage meters.
DR standing around our plane had
Posted by: TOM MESSNER | November 16, 2008 at 09:12 AM
The Sobieski is significantly cleaner than the as-waged Georgi brand, so the gentlemen in the mail room shunned it prematurely. George, as for $10 a bottle, that may be the handy size that tucks into your shoe when travelling...I make up in quantity what the wager lacked in quality. Besides, I ruined my own odds by voting Democrat myself.
That stewardess looks like shes headed to a birthday party.
Posted by: Auntie Christ | November 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Stupidity is everywhere. I just tried to use my Hotmail and some halfwit at Jaguar or one of their agencies decided to impose some dodgy on line ad at me. I couldnt use my e mail until I disposed of this imposition. Unlike the early days of TV advertising, when ads were a passive interuption this nonsense was active.
I was offended, inconvenienced and will NEVER buy a Jag...and will tell everyone I know about it all.
Bet the data looked good though!
Posted by: Jerry Judge | November 16, 2008 at 07:10 PM
Jerry, thats a banner takeover / overlay. Its the next stage of online display advertising.
Posted by: slowmo | November 18, 2008 at 07:16 AM
For a bunch of ad guys, I'm surprised that you buy so easily into the notion that something can't be good if it doesn't cost a lot. Don't assume Sobieski must be crap because they don't rape you for it; maybe you should question what you've been led to believe great vodka is supposed to cost. 1) Take a look at Sobieski, then take a look at Belvedere, and you'll find that, gasp! it's pretty much the same vodka. Same ingredients, same distillation, same everything except for the fancy-schmancy bottle. 2) Look up "Cocktail Creationist" on NY Magazine's website. Read the article, then stop at the part where the guy who created Grey Goose says aloud what we in this business knew all along - The only difference between a bottle of Absolut and a bottle of Grey Goose is $15 in his pocket. Now, stop being victims, buy a bottle of Sobieski, and think of yourselves as smart, not cheap.
Posted by: Kayser Soze | November 22, 2008 at 06:48 PM