These Christopher Guest-directed ads have been running for a few months, but the lessons are important and under-appreciated.
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Posted 19 August 2010
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Spoiler alert: I’ve never seen this show, but everything I’ve overheard about it makes it sound like an experiment conducted by ABC to see how much nonsense a really devoted audience will tolerate. I haven’t heard anyone say a good thing about it in months, apart from a lot of “Watch it from the beginning [...]
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Posted 23 May 2010
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This commercial makes me laugh every time. The worst companies have the best ad wizards.
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Posted 27 January 2010
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Email scammers in the developing world have had tremendous success at relieving Americans of their money, but there’s much room for improvement. Checking my spam filter just now, I found an attempt from “PayPal” that began thus: Due to our last days online problems, many phishing attempts and identity-theft, we need to verify our members [...]
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Posted 11 November 2009
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Clarissa and I went to Seattle for a long weekend recently, and at the car-rental agency I learned why the U.S. automobile industry is in such bad shape: it produces offensive, humiliating machines like the Chevrolet HHR:
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Posted 19 July 2009
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