November 28, 2009
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Bravo, Bravia, Bravo

The Color of Inspiration

Let's start with the name:



Don't Run With Scissors

Lest You Discover They're Dangerous

Discover Card, perennially everybody's, like, 17th choice for personal credit, has an image it wants to pound into your head.



Over The Transom: What Wal-Mart Failed to Do

A Rifle Shot, But Only Metaphorically, Unlike Previous Ads Involving Shots From Rifles, But We're Getting Ahead of Ourselves

The last time you heard from MasterLock, they were failing to blow open their product with a 30 ought 6 or somesuch high-powered weapon. About three presidents later, they're back on the screen.



Ad Critic Meets the Ad Criticized

A Chance Encounter Yields Something Nice Over the Transom

You think it's easy being an advertising critic? Well, Buster, you're wrong.



Welcome to The Transom

People Send Me All Kinds of Crap and a Few Gems and Now I Get to Share the Wealth

To keep food on the table for the various AdReview offspring, what I do is write 600 word columns. It's a good gig. The money's fine and no special footwear required.







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