Waiting for Gouda

So Circuit City has a new series of television ads in which relatively normal looking people go out on dates with large, walking, talking pieces of audio/visual equipment. Remarkably, this is even stupider than it sounds.
In one spot, a woman and a giant digital camera sit at a table at a restaurant, or perhaps [...]

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What does it take to become a writer in the advertising business?
Some recent evidence suggests that little more is required than a reptile brain.  I just saw a McDonald’s television ad depicting two semi-slobby looking dudes sitting in a booth (at Mickey D’s, natch) early one morning, stuffing their maws with giant eggy greaseballs soaked [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in the Second City, Comcast corporation continues to threaten our lives.
In their latest batch of advertisements, a rather smarmy fellow with a microphone, apparently a Comcast spokesperson of some kind, accosts a seemingly random Comcast customer, often as they are getting out of their car or [...]

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It’s baseball season, and I gotta tell ya, I have CAUGHT THE FEVER!
That’s right, I am contagious people. Stand back! I have the baseball fever. Do not get too close, and for God’s sake, do not try to kiss me. (You know you want to.)
Just ask my Lovely Wife TM… she [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in the Land of Lincoln, a popular sartorial choice is a particular type of pants often referred to as “jeans”. A popular manufacturer of these jeans, should you believe what you see on the television, is a company called Levis.
A recent advertisement for these Levis [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in the Heartland there are certain establishments which, should you call them and request it, will create one or more pizzas, usually to your exact specifications, and then ever so conveniently transport it to your house, generally via automobile, often for a nominal fee of [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in Illinois, women apparently require certain… sanitary products on a semi-regular basis. The television ads for these products have often featured women walking on the beach, or riding horses, or wearing white pants.
But now there is a commercial for what is, I believe, colloquially referred [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in Chicago the battle for our home entertainment dollar is raging. The biggest combatants are some satellite TV company and some digital cable company. Comcast, the cable company, has a latest round of commercials in which some supposedly enlightened dope who has signed away [...]

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I don’t know about where you live, but here in the great Midwest, there is apparently a significant problem with something called “meth”. I know this because there is a recent series of television commercials that have been showing right there on my TV. Actually, I guess these would be public service announcements, [...]

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