I Love those Liberty Mutual spots.

Almost every Liberty Mutual spot I’ve seen (created by Goodby Silverstein & Associates) is a winner in my book, so I watch them with way more attention than most people. Here’s a detail that some latent OCD caught. In the spot with the struggling actor, note how the river behind him is in the same loop with each take. Look …

Magazine Writer Exchange Program Fails

Journalistic cross-pollination seemed like a promising and noble idea, but after three weeks, the staffs of Better Homes and Gardens and Cosmopolitan magazines are backing away from the exchange experiment that brought nothing but rancor and confusion to both publications. Despite sensational headlines such as ” Sexy, sexy Linoleum!” and “How to make him beg for more — pie!” staff …

The Jack Bauer Cooking Hour

OPEN: QUAD SCREEN WITH DIGITAL CLOCK BOX 1: A cookbook partially obscured by a dishrag BOX 2: Cooking oil in a Dutch oven BOX 3: A bag of shrimp, quick zoom on sell-by date BOX 4: A beautiful WOMAN, dressed for a date, driving INT. JACK’S KITCHEN — EVENING JACK frantically searches for something in the midst of desperate meal …

Squirrel Wars

I had all good intentions of spewing something about the loss of credibility in culture, largely at the hands of bias, commerce and advertising; about how search engines were once a possible source of objectivity until search engine optimization; about how friends were once trusted sources of information until word-of-mouth advertising cast a bit of theoretical doubt on even everyday …

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I absolutely despise american “work yourself to death or you don’t deserve to live” culture Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/raccorns/status/1031835113863229440