Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Nude dancing girls?
Posted by Pete Best at 9:27 AM 1 comments
Monday, January 26, 2009
Naw, we straight
Apparently this video has been making the rounds, just not with the middle-aged white boy demo. Regardless, it makes me happy inside.
Sure, more than half of the country wanted to have a beer with George Bush four and eight years ago (sort of. damn you, Florida). But I'd rather have a chili dog with the smoothest president I've ever seen.
It's not easy to be cool AND the smartest person in the room. But damn, he's got it.
UPDATE: Apparently the mainstream media is on board too.
Posted by Crustodio at 3:41 PM 0 comments
Let me get back to the PM on that, then we'll talk about the content requirements
I read this post from Gods of Advertising and couldn't help but smile. It is my life.
With great apologies to my family, I am a very literal listener. My father raised me (very sternly) to "Say what you mean and mean what you say", and I'm afraid that lesson has stuck for life. Along with "If you're on time, you're late", but that's another post for another time.
As a copywriter, I certainly think "conceptually" when creating work and when it comes to humor, I have no problem using or understanding metaphors and other tricks of the trade.
But I swear, if we're having a conversation that includes expected results, you better tell me exactly what you want. I will only hear what you say, not what you "really meant". Yes, I realize this is a fault on my part. I'm working on it. But for the love of butter, why can't people just say what they want?
This especially gets the worst of me at work - in meetings, particularly. Just like the post linked above, I'll drift off when you start using acronyms. I'll take a mental powder when you choose long, unnecessary words when a short, succinct phrase will do the trick.
Life it too short, folks. Don't waste my time with "procedural understandings". However, I'll gladly share my thoughts on "how to work together more efficiently".
It's not that I don't understand you. I just don't want to have to work to understand you. I'm in advertising. One of the few grown-up playgrounds that survives on adult ADD, caffeine and wit.
So, are you with me? Get your message across already, will ya?
Posted by Crustodio at 11:45 AM 1 comments
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Masterfully cleansed
Like any sane person, I take all my fashion, musical and dietary advice from Beyonce. So I'm proud to announce that I finished the 10-day Master Cleanse diet/fast on Thursday and am gearing up to eat solid foods again today. Also known as the Lemonade Diet, you subsist entirely on a drink made up of lemon juice, organic Grade B maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. It's actually pretty tasty, though it gets a little old after 10 days. I did the MC last year around this time and this time it was a little easier, mainly because I knew what to expect.
Posted by Pete Best at 9:41 AM 4 comments
Labels: bacon, Beyonce, decaf, diet, Master Cleanse, shart, vegetarian
Friday, January 23, 2009
What happens in the Lincoln Bedroom, stays in the Lincoln Bedroom
What the hell?
Posted by Crustodio at 11:08 AM 2 comments
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A shiny new day
President Barack Obama makes a call from the Oval Office on his first full day on the job.
Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME
You can read the article here.
Posted by Crustodio at 2:48 PM 0 comments
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Pet peeve #3098
Hey you, person with the laptop on my daily train! Do you need to have your volume up so I can hear when every email and IM arrives? Yeah, didn't think so. Suck it.
Note: Yes, I'm easing back into posting with weak, short material. You get what you pay for.
Posted by Crustodio at 9:20 AM 1 comments
Friday, January 02, 2009
My Best Ten Records of 2008
Well, I could go on & on about how we haven't posted for a month, but hey - nobody wants to hear excuses. But, if I had an excuse, it would look a hell of a lot like this:
With an excuse that cute, are you really going to hold a grudge? Moving on, I realize that most top 10 lists should actually come out before the new year begins, but what are ya gonna do? So, here we go - my favorites from 2008....
Posted by Pete Best at 3:28 PM 2 comments