Archive for November 2007

Raised on a Secular Christmas

The “magic” of Christmas diminishes as I get older. Instead of soaking it all in as I did as a youth, I now think about costs: time needed to organize a family get-together, planning gifts and shopping trips, and various other details you could put on a balance sheet if you were a nerd accounting-inclined.
The [...]

Gen Y Doesn’t Mind Sexual Messages

Generation Y’s formative years were spent watching the Spice Girls, Britney Spears and countless shirtless boy bands gyrating in water fountains. Friends, an immensely popular show in the 1990s, depicted twentysomethings having new sexual partners on a weekly basis. And then there’s a man named Bill, who received some minor press for a few incidents [...]

If Ads Could Talk: Red Bull Energy Drink

Hi! I’m Red Bull Energy Drink.
Athletes don’t take me as seriously as Gatorade (or even its ugly cousin Powerade), but trust me when I say that I can give you that extra kick you need when you’re drinking when you need an all-night study session!
I have promotions/advertising reps that show up at cool nightlife [...]