December 17, 2009
Wish I could add a screenshot of this. I’m looking at the cover of www.si.com, and the main story is “Bengals’ Henry Passes Away.” As soon as the page loads, a semi-transparent image simulating a windshield shatters in the middle of the screen. It’s an ad for Liberty Mutual. The ad’s tagline: “With Our New Car Replacement, We’ll Help You Move On.”
Chris Henry died after a traffic accident.
Way to think, people.
December 2, 2009
Your Web Ad of the Day, ladies and gentlemen, as found on the Huffington Post:
Funny how “Alabama” just pops up there. I’m sure it’s just an alphabetical thing…
April 28, 2009
September 7, 2008
I’m sitting here watching the Brady-less Patriots play the Croyle-less Chiefs, and that’s bad enough. But then another one of those Mac vs. PC ads come on, this one with John Hodgman hiding in a pizza box trying to catch college students, because they just loooove those Mac laptops. So I’m shouting this message out into the Internets, hoping they’ll hear me:
PLEASE STOP.
I just can’t take any more. These ads are not persuasive, and they’re not funny. This ad campaign jumped the shark so long ago that it has gone up the beach, through a couple of sand castles, and has been impaled by somebody’s beach umbrella. Please, please leave John Hodgman alone, so he can be funny again. Like this:
UPDATE: If you had to watch a preview for that awful-looking movie Eagle Eye in order to see this clip, like I just had to, I sincerely apologize.
