AdScam/The Horror!

Ad Blitz Bollocks. .

My good friend, Bill Clark, points us in the direction of a Wall Street Journal piece, “Advertising is dead. Long live advertising.” which discusses the fact that we are being bombarded with non-stop ads during virtually all our daily activities. This is leading to “Ad Blindness,” because companies are “putting ads in places where consumers are on task, like buying their groceries, and there is no good way for the human brain to process all that information.” Or as someone asked... “The big question is: ‘How many ads is a human willing to tolerate every day of their lives?’” To which I would add, particularly when the ads are getting shittier by the day. 

That last ad was the last straw! 

More Ridley on his Birthday.

There’s a flushed-out version of my Tuesday Ridley Scott AdScam post over at MoreAboutAdvertising. It also has links to some of Ridley’s great TV spots. I never shot anything with Ridley, but I did shoot a couple of spots with his brother Tony when I was the “Agency Fireman” at Dorlands. I still can’t get over the fact that "Rid" is as old a geezer as me. But I’ll gladly toast him with my breakfast beer. 

Cheers.  

 

Belt tightening time for Jamie?

You have to laugh at the news that the US is practically addicted to debt – and that's put the economy in a dangerous position, according to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. He pointed to the enormous amount of debt the US has taken out since the pandemic, including around a trillion distributed in stimulus checks and the $4 trillion doled out by the Federal Reserve to buy government bonds. Those actions injected a huge amount of cash into US markets, leading firms to rake in more profits while stocks soared higher in 2021. "That money is like heroin," Dimon said at the Global Investment Summit in London, per the Telegraph. This is from the guy whose net worth is almost $2 billion and whose annual salary is $34.5 million. Sounds like he's on both  heroin and crack to me.  

Don’t get your nose bent out of shape Jamie.

 

Santos down the Swannee...

Yeah, this week could see the brief congressional career of George Santos come to a screeching halt. The good news is that he’s four years short of qualifying for a government pension, although based on his track record he could get one by claiming he is a Medal of Honour winning vet who lost both legs in Vietnam. His fate probably rests with Mike Johnson, the Bible-thumping speaker, and whether he decides he can live with an even narrower majority. Santos, from Long Island, New York, labors under a 23-count federal indictment and a damning report from the House ethics committee. Couldn’t happen to a more fucked up douchenozzle.  

Whats next... Nobel Prize?

Happy Birthday Ridley Scott.

This coming Thursday, November 30th, the famed, incredibly talented British director, will be 86 years old That’s the same age as me! How the fuck does he do it? Right now, he’s shooting Gladiator ll. With another epic lined up behind that. There’s an excellent article on him in Rolling Stone... Well worth a read. The opening paragraphs tell us that he went to the Royal College of Art... So, did I. He won a Royal Society of Arts bursary... So, did I. He used it to get to New York and worm his way into the ad biz... So, did I. Is this further proof that great minds think alike?  Bet your arse!

And bet it’s a belter!!! 

 

 

 

Cyber Crapola.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you will be well aware that today is Cyber Monday, which is the last day of Cyber Week, the five days from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday. America will spend shitloads of money on stuff they most likely don’t need. Close to $40 billion, in fact. Remember “Black Friday” when people used to smash down the doors of Mall shops to get the tatty crap inside. It's virtually all digital now. You don’t have to shop ‘til you drop anymore, now you can simply wear your fingers down to stubs on your brand-new Cyber Monday phone.  

It was a steal at $50 K.  

 

Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a closet Canadian?

Chuckle of the week has to be the news that “MTG” a just published book by the rabid right wing Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene – a leading supporter of Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and founder of the America First Caucus, which called for “meaningful work for American workers and their families” – was printed in Canada. Good job they didn’t print it in Quebec... Then it would have been in French. 

Send in the “Gazpacho.” 

Who can piss away the most money?

It would seem that Elon “King Twat” Musk and Der Trumpf are in a race to see who can quickly lose the most money on their respective social media platforms. Earlier this month we were told that Truth Social, Der UbergropenFuhrer's shit storm of a site, had lost $76 million this year. Trump sued (No surprise there) claiming that it had only lost a “Mere” $36 million. Whatever! Now there’s news that Musk’s X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out. Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Couldn’t be happening to a more deserving pair of fucktards.  

Flush with success.  

 

 

T.G.I.K.M.F. is back!!!

I forgot to do T.G.I.K.M.F. last Friday... “Cos my brain is turning into porridge.  

So, here we go with a bonus edition... 

Don't do it again...

And I won't help you next time.

   

Happy Thanksgiving...

Yes, it’s Thanksgiving... A real holiday, unlike the fake one’s such as Halloween, Valentines Day and others which are just excuses for brain dead fucktards to spend billions on pet costumes. Came across this question on a site the other day... Why don t Native American celebrate Thanksgiving? Here was the answer... For many Native Americans Thanksgiving is not a heartwarming holiday marked by gathering with family and serving others, but rather “a reminder of genocide, colonialism, and oppression, it's a symbol of smallpox blankets, Christianity, land grabs and manifest destiny.  

Now you know.