AdScam

For my take on the current state of TV advertising, get over to MoreAboutAdvertising, were my latest column talks about a TV campaign for Jardiance, a prescription drug used to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease. Whoever is responsible for this travesty should be shot before their wooden leg catches fire!

Usain after Jardiance!

JD Vance: “There’s no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J. Trump.”

No… You can’t make this shit up!

Two floor globes said to be used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II are housed in the Pentagon, where subsequent generations of Army leaders became custodians of the artifacts, according to people familiar with their lineage and an accompanying plaque dating them to the 1930s. Being a fucktard, Secretary of “Wank,” Pete Hegseth, decided that his office should become the new home to one of the 30-inch globes. Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate the globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending it crashing onto its base with the resulting gash appearing to be several inches wide.

Welcome to Trump Antarctica!!!

I can’t believe I missed it, but yesterday was International Gin & Tonic Day, which is celebrated on October 19 each year. Apparently the date commemorates Mary Edith Keyburn, a gin-and-tonic enthusiast whose family and friends established the observance in her memory after her death at the age of 95 on October 19, 2010. Obviously, she died happily whilst drinking a G&T…

Now that’s what I call a G&T!

Once again, the trump “You can’t make this shit up” category overflows the shit stained rim of the gold Trump toilet with the news that former Rep. George Santos (R-Fla.) pitched himself on Friday to fill the vacancy left by White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after her five day reign of incompetence. “Hey I’m not technically open for a job because I have one already…. butttttttt… I’d jump to serve POTUS as press secretary in a heart beat. Just saying,” the former Republican lawmaker wrote on X.

Where’s the long blonde hair?

In the never ending “You can’t make this shit up” Trumpian fiasco, over the weekend he said he was “thinking of” renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, a move that comes after his previous moves to rebrand global geographical features. During a stupefying speech at a rally in Tennessee, the “Fake” president discussed his renaming efforts for Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico.“So, we need a river, we need an ocean. So, I was thinking of either the Atlantic or the Pacific. We call it ‘Trump Ocean’ or ‘Ocean of the America,’ something like that.” Plus we turn it gold.

The Trumpnozzle name change committee.

You can buy practically anything these days on the internet. It doesn’t matter how fucked up the object in question is. If it has a price, there’s a company willing to sell and even advertise it to you on social media. On Reddit there’s currently an Instagram ad for a “pet incinerator” on the Meta-owned platform. Several Instagram users flagged the same ad, which shows a cutesy AI-generated cat and dog — which appear healthy and not in need of euthanasia or cremation — posing next to a combustion device with a retractable drawer. Beats the shit out of funny Halloween costumes.

Forget this…

Get this!!!

A Bentley believed to have belonged to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (Formally known as Prince Andrew) is for sale at a British dealership for just under £125,000. (About $150,000) With just 7,000 miles on the clock, the luxury car is listed as an “Ex Royal Family Car.” This would be the Bentley Flying Spur with a personalized Duke of York number plate he drove to his father’s funeral in 2021 and to his granddaughter’s christening the year after. He is currently driving a used Yugo!

Why not a Cybertruck?

Over at MoreAboutAdvertising I explain how I won my first CLIO for my TV spot “Byrrh on the Rocks,” in 1965. Long before most of you where born and I was a New York Mad Man learning to benefit from the creative stimuli of the three martini lunch.

Now it is Beer in the bin!

With the news today in mediapost.com that my old mate, Rich Silverstein, co-founder of Goodby Silverstein & Partners is stepping down after 43 years at the San Francisco-based agency. Here’s the comment I left… “If anyone asks you what is the very best possible way you can earn a living, do not tell them you play the piano in a brothel, tell them you work for Rich and Jeff.” But don’t worry, Rich won’t simply bike off into the sunset.