Humor

Various things designed to get you to expel air in an unplanned manner while showing more teeth than you usually do.

Lesser-Known Blues Legends

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     Any blues aficionado knows the legendary names of “Blind Boy” Fuller and “Blind” Willie Johnson.  But even hard-core blues fans know little, if anything, about bluesmen like “Terribly Nearsighted” Lewis… or “Can’t Read Much Small Print At All” McCoy… or “Having Awful Problems Seeing At Night” Mason… or “Trouble Judging Distances” Jenkins.      Unfortunately, … Read more

My New Hobby

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      Like many people, I like to take up a hobby occasionally for a little something to distract myself and pour my passions into.     So I thought long and hard about what hobby to take up: coin collecting, serial stalking, magic, competitive mumbling, animal husbandry — then it hit me like a ton … Read more

Advertising Job Hunting Secrets

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       (Why spend a fortune going to some university, beauty college or ad school? Here’s everything you need to know about getting a great job in advertising. Kindly make your tuition checks payable to Patrick Scullin.)      Next to dying a slow, painful, miserable death while “MacArthur Park” is playing on the radio, hunting … Read more

Monkeys Are Making Monkeys Of Us

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       They think they’re so smart, and maybe they are, but monkeys are often discovered posing as authority figures endangering life as we know it here on this planet many of us call “home.”      Imagine being wheeled into the operating room and your last vision before drifting off to slumberville is a monkey … Read more

7 Ways To Capitalize on AIG

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       Last week, we American taxpayers bought ourselves AIG. I’ve never owned an insurance company, but I do have a few proposals about running our new enterprise: Let’s outsource for cheap labor in China and India. Let’s not insure any high risk people. Let’s continually raise premiums. If there are claims, let’s dispute … Read more

The Secrets of Jingle Writing Explained

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   David Ogilvy (a Brit who did some ‘adverts’) once said, “If you can’t say it, sing it, dude. Sing it loud, sing it proud.” I believe he said this nugget at Woodstock when he sat in with Canned Heat for a set, then wailed like a banshee on fire as Hendrix burned his guitar. … Read more