Thursday   It wasn’t really shorts weather, but we headed out in them. First stop, Sun Studios. Here, Elvis, B.B. King, Ike Turner, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few other small timers recorded hits. Our guide played us songs, showed us the famed recording room and even let us rock [...]

FRIDAY Someone was screaming my name. Had I been recognized from my blog? Had someone actually read it? No (sigh). But my friends Kathy and Amanda had either arrived early or flashed something to get to the front of the line crowding John’s Pizzeria. Walking in, I noticed the writing wasn’t only on the walls. Previously, [...]

This is why I heart advertising. Rest assured, your local deli isn’t adding peyote to their everything bagel, it’s just a cat food commercial. Between the dancing turkeys and the magic-mirror-technicolor-portal, it’s a bumpy ride with your logic hat on, but toss that off, kill the lights and you’ll be jamin’ in a salmon boat [...]

I didn’t even want to watch it. But I have to write something for this blog no one looks at, in the hopes of getting noticed by certain algorithms tracking frequency… Oh the futility. On that note, I decided to throw in the towel and watch a documentary about advertising folk who’ve been laid off. [...]

It was made a hundred digital years ago, or 6, but it’s still ridiculous. It reps everything great about football… inappropriate tackling, trash talking, over-aggressive, super-sized athletes frothing to hit. Maybe it’s the hype, inflated budgets or increased gas prices (always a good scapegoat), but most spots burn under Superbowl heat. This Reebok bit’s a [...]