June 30, 2008

Lawyers make such rotten copywriters.

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A disclaimed headline is such a wonderful (yet horrible) thing. Ripped off from PSFK.

Posted by John on June 30, 2008 at 09:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Advertising

June 25, 2008

Randomly heard on Tug's iPod today.

Remeber this one? Jesus, listened to it three times back to back. Didn't even remember it was on my iPod. Thanks Shuffle Feature!

And being alone is the best way to be.
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be.
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be.
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye.

Posted by Tug McTighe on June 25, 2008 at 01:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Music

June 25, 2008

Marketing is NEVER about absolutes.

I must be on some weird banner kick lately, but here's an interesting one I ran across for HP Inks.

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To make things clear, 25% of refilled ink cartridges fail. Original HP inks don't fail.* So, in summary, you should buy HP inks because they work all the time.**

* When we say they don't fail, well, they kinda do. But it's only 1% of the time. Which is pretty close to not failing.

** Again, they only work 99% of the time. There's that one, itsy-bitsy sliver of time (1%) when they don't work. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Posted by SethyG on June 25, 2008 at 08:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Web/Tech

June 23, 2008

World of World of Warcraft


Painfully funny because it is painfully true. I love a good Mage.

Posted by John on June 23, 2008 at 05:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Brands , Entertainment , Games , Pop Culture , The Creative Life

June 23, 2008

RIP George Carlin

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The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television got him arrested and made him an Icon. Carlin knew the power of language. The "Stuff" routine can still make me laugh out loud. Thanks for the laughs, sir.

Posted by John on June 23, 2008 at 06:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Current Affairs , Entertainment , Pop Culture

June 18, 2008

File under wish we'd thought of it.

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Leica D-Lux 3 Pixel Dog. Woof.

Spotted at Core 77. Thanks to our resident cowboy poet Parc Masterson for the finger point in the right direction.

Posted by John on June 18, 2008 at 01:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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June 17, 2008

Sordid, guilty pleasures of Sky Mall

Sheer genius. I want that Bigfoot thingie. I really do. Oooh. And that giant crossoword. And all the hose holders. I'm a sucker for those.

Posted by John on June 17, 2008 at 02:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Advertising , Entertainment , Product placement

June 17, 2008

Sometimes we're dorky. Okay, most times.

Battlestargalacticalogo A few of us here at American Copwriter love the show Battlestar Galactica. Love it. A whole fracking lot. We like the show so much that we've created a blog (whoisthe5thcylon.blogspot.com) to help discern who the final Cylon is. We'll post some theories and break each one down with pros and cons. We'll even toss in odds for each one. Yes, it sounds extremely nerdy, but it's fun for us geeks.

There's a submission form on the page where you can send in your own guesses. We'll probably even publish a few of them, too. Check it out and tell us what you think.

Posted by SethyG on June 17, 2008 at 01:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Pop Culture , Television , Web/Tech

June 16, 2008

Stan Winston RIP -- hope the Predator didn't get you.

Creepy crawlies, dinosaurs and other space creatures -- a moment of silence please. Stan Winston, Academy Award-winning creator of special effects, makeup and creatures has died at 62.


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Best known for his work on the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, and Edward Scissorhands -- he also designed the Mr. Roboto mask for Styx'x 1983 album.

So domo arigato, Mr. Winston. I still can't stand the fucking scribble and scratching of the face hugger skittering across the floor in the Alien Quadrology. Thanks for that bit of life-lasting horror and disgust, my friend.

Stan's vision, creativity and monsters will be missed greatly.

Here's just one story.

Thanks for the tip Kegger.

Posted by Tug McTighe on June 16, 2008 at 02:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Entertainment

June 16, 2008

Mentally Tough

This spot has been around awhile, but I hadn't seen it until this weekend. On Father's Day, actually. Maybe it was the mood of the day, but this just jumped out of TV and slapped me around a little in terms of relevance. A great example of the right spot placed at just the right time. Creating spots like this seems deceptively simple. Oh, hell you just take a quote from an interview Earl did a few years ago and cut together some old footage. But crafting a spot this tight and this on strategy out of found material is, in no way, as easy as it sounds. WK is just so damn good at this stuff. The Magnificent Bastards strike again.

File under: marketing to men.

Posted by John on June 16, 2008 at 10:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Categories: Advertising , Brands , Current Affairs , Entertainment , Marketing to Men , Sports

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