halloween sucks

for the following reasons:

  1. Excess candy consumption
  2. Adults stealing kids’ holiday
  3. Excess beer consumption
  4. Auto vs. Pedestrian/Pediatric trauma
  5. Stupid costumes at work
  6. Increasingly gory and bizarre front yard displays (hanged man, tombstone) in my suburban neighborhood
  7. Lame-ass ad tie-ins for every product (mattresses, used cars) just like at Christmas
  8. Mallgoths
  9. “Vampires”
  10. Teenagers “trick or treating” by doing what they always do (drinking, having sex on the lawn) except in lame costumes

This concludes my scroogey rant.

aktivate the overthruster

We have a Porsche ad on our site at work. It links to videos advertising their new “Cayenne” sport-ute. The ads emphasize Porsche’s off road history, with footage of a tractor they built in the 50s, various rally champion 911 cars, and finally the Cayenne.

Curiously they omit some other Porsche offroad design classics, such as Doc Ferdinand’s excellent tanks which did such great duty on both fronts in the Second World War. C’mon guys.. these are your ROOTS!

I suggest:

“We don’t just go camping. We take you to CAMP!”

“If we can make it through Russian ice and snow to shell innocent villagers in the Ukraine, we can get you to the grocery store”

“Drivers, gunners, wanted”

etc

I see us as visionary, and I hope you do too.

Thanks for joining us on this conference call! We’ve heard that you’re very creative, very dynamic, very outside-the-lines. We are too. Here’s our pitch, let us show you what we need you to do.

Singultus Industries, LLC needs an edgy, viral, one-to-one relationship marketing campaign to make our brand ubiquitous. Our target is the “Generation Z Prime”, the young movers and shakers in the 15-25 market with disposable income and a real thirst for style.

We want to expose ourselves in the marketplace and become a true meme and a halo effect. We want the E-2000 to be the emesis basin of choice for people in the know. Basically what we’re after is to become the New Beetle of the postsurgical home care industry.

We plan to have snipe companies and street teams work college and high school campuses to build a wave here and get some buzz going with the brand. Probably starting with the basins and some catheters or maybe support hose. Looking forward we have product placements on the horizon and some very promising hook-ins with celebrities and opinion-makers in the techno dance and extreme sports scenes.

When you get down to it, we don’t just sell bedpans or ostomy bags here at Singultus. We’re giving people a lifestyle and an identity, a brand they can make part of who they are. And we hope you’re part of it too. Are you ready for an adventure in post-television advertorial brand identification? Come along with us for the ride!

googlism

conrad is a schmuck
conrad is one of the freshest creators of comics and cartoons today
conrad is an internationally recognized expert on cannabis
conrad is the central valley’s best hope to oust gary condit
conrad is subtly taking advantage of his current “hip” status as père spirituel of one of the darlings of today’s avant garde
conrad is reinforced by a hobby
conrad is the last of the box of beagles
conrad is a bit unusual at first but it isn’t difficult to get the hang of
conrad is the clueless one in the bunch
conrad is content playing the level
conrad is a non

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