Hello, Blog... it's been a while once again. You know how it is, excitement of the moment, promises made, promises broken. I'm sorry I'm such a turd when it comes to keeping my promises to call you back after a date.... wait a minute, wrong blog, wrong topic!
So let's start over.
Hi!
Some people know I was a graphic artist for a large law firm in the U.S. for a while till the ungrateful sons of bitches fired me because they wanted to save a few bucks on not having yet another support staffer get vested in their pension fund...
But even before that I was fascinated by advertising. When I was a 'radio personality' at several tiny Ohio stations in the 1970s, each of us had what we called a 'dementia reel,' full of ads that would have gotten us fired if they had ever gone out over the airwaves but made for lots of fun to play to friends and at parties.
That old dementia reel has over time turned into a gallery instead. I've collected some weird ads, wseird store and restaurant names, bizarre graphics and made a lot of strange ones myself. So today. I thought we'd do something visual... post lots of goodies from my cabinet of advertising horrors.
What brings this on? Well, this week I posted something on our work website on a social networking site (how politically correct it all sounds!) which was humorous and mildly off-color. One of my colleagues, who also has posting capabilities decided it was 'too' off-color for his taste and removed several things. That touched off an insanely long volley of e-mails between us as I react very very verrrry badly to anyone attempting to impose their 'professional standards' or sense of morality on me, especially when they are not my boss or supervisor, but a mere colleage, and one who ranks below me in seniority, too.
At first I was going to post those cartoons (all from an English grammar website) here to see if I could get some of you to possibly vindicate me, but when I looked at the readership stats, that turned out to be pretty much in vain (small wonder, considering how often I honestly post here), and so I decided instead to share some of my treasures and tidbits in advertising with you.
Basically, they come in three flavors ... unfortunate choices in names for places of business, unfortunate choices for names of products, and my own fantasy products I've been working on in the deepest recesses of my mind over the years... none of them are totally sick or twisted, most of them are just a little so. But you be the judge. I'm just posting...
By the way, comments are always welcome. It's nice to know that someone actually looks at this stuff every once in a while...
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