Wow. This is really taking off!

Three weeks later and I'm making the next entry. Gosh, my excitement to log (or b-log) my thoughts is comparable to a house afire!

So, since I last blogged, Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had turkey. And lots and lots of starches. I was dissappointed in my liquor consumption, though, as I came down with a bug in the wee hours of Thursday.

My plan was as follows: Bloody's at dawn. A little Bushmills around noon. Beer until dinner. Wine with dinner. Capped with some sort of coffee enhancer before bed.

Turns out, I had 3 diet Sierra Mists and a Lite Beer from Miller. Which was, to my surprise, less filling. We also didn't last too long on the leftovers and agreed to toss whatever was left by noon on Saturday. Oh, lots of family came in from NY, ate, and left. A pleasant time was had by all.

Random thoughts since I last spoke/typed:

* The Detroit Lions are underrated.
* Tropic Thunder is absolutely hilarious, for lots of different reasons.
* Adam Sandler is not hilarious. That Zohan shit was crap.
* It's Dec 2 and we've seen A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Rudolph, The Grinch and Polar Express (3x) already. Gonna be the best Christmas ever.
* Focus groups are always interesting. For all the wrong reasons.
* Chicago is always cold, for no good reason.

Some advertising thoughts:

* If a client is not requesting or receptive to non-traditional media ideas, does it mean you suck as a salesman?
* Does anyone care if I don't Twitter?
* I can't really remember an ad I've seen in the last three weeks except those Dunkin Donuts lovers screaming from their roofs (rooves?). And I think it sucks.
* Oh, and the new Elf Yourself kicks ass. Load up some pics and spend the time.

Shout out to my friend Jeff in PDX and his man Otis. Vote Noel Claro for the Next Food Network Star. And Sam, clean your room.

In the beginning...

... God created the heaven, the earth, the seas, the land, the amoebas, the fish, the dinosaurs, the mammals, the men and the women. Then Cain killed Abel and Al Gore created the internet. 

Which leads me to here. I'm writing a fricken blog. 

Not because I have to but because I used to write random emails about the things that were pissing me off at the moment. This is apparently, "Pissed off musings. Ver. 2.0" Or maybe it's 3.0 or 8.7. Because back in the 90's, when I worked in media, I wrote a monthly newsletter for my department, which was basically random ramblings about what was pissing me off in the world of media at the moment. 

I probably won't be as pissed off here, because I'm making more money. Although that could change at any given time, seeing as I'm an ad guy in his 40's. (Yes, a creative triceratops.) And then I'll be even more pissed off as I have kids to feed. 

Why am I writing? And why are you hopefully reading? Because I'm going to chronicle the end of advertising as I know it. With a lot of random ramblings thrown in as I want everyone to think I'm absolutely hilarious. 

Also, I watch a lot of tv and read a lot of trashy pop culture bullshit and need a place to vent about how awful stuff is compared to when I was younger. Which really just means I'm getting old quick and taking on real curmudgeonly traits. 

Oh, and I live with four women of varying ages. Meaning, I'll be talking a lot about the surprising, oh-so-precious moments in life that can only happen to a father of girls.  

And since this is my first post, I'm completely exhausted and probably won't even have the patience to figure out how to post a photo up here. So consider that a carrot for coming back. 

Revisit this "blog" in a day or so and you'll see how devilishly handsome this auteur really is.