AdScam/The Horror!

According to AdWeek, Hewlett-Packard has cut to three holding companies its review of global marketing services for its technology solutions group. Still contending are teams from Omnicom Group, WPP Group and Havas. No longer in the picture are teams from Interpublic Group and Publicis Groupe, according to the AdWeek scribes. Oh, so ace douchenozzle Roth and the Gallic fucktard are double fucked... No big surprise there. Final presentations are slated for late December. Yeah, a great way to celebrate Christmas!!! Work your fuckig arse off, and forget the family. All I can say is, based on the quality and consitency of the work Goodby has done over the years, they deserve to get it... But what the fuck do I know... Even though they will get it... Just remember, if they do, you read it here first... Have to crash now, it's like fourteen o-clock in the morning for me at the moment... Blame the Cartoonist!!!

My other bedroom.... Eat your fucking heart out!!!

Something weird is happening at Typepad... No, not just the lack of punctuation maks. But I did a post this morning after my 12 hour flight and all the hassles of Heathrow... the worst fucking airport on the entire shmegemy planet... 'Cos I couldn't check in the hotel for like SIX FUCKING hours.So, I went to their library, which is kinda nice, with computers and shit. Did the aforementioned post, then sacked out on a big comfy couch, before meeting Ralf "The Cartoonist" for a few pints at the "Jack Horner," which is the pub on the corner... Cockney rhyming slang for corner... It's a British thing... Google it! Anyway, the post never appeared... Should be back to normal tomorrow... Sack time. Cheers/George.

My hotel bedroom... Just a joke Maureen!!!

You have to love that piece in AdAge about how P&G's "Digital Guru" (why is everyone either a guru or a fucking czar these day) is saying that "Social networks may never find the ad dollars they're hunting for because they don't really have a right to them." His point being that they are not "media" in the way the Adverati would like to believe. He has another great line... "What in heaven's name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?" Like I keep on saying.... Social networking.... Show me the fucking money. It's a great piece, well worth the read.

Isn't that Satan, or some shit like that?

By the time you read this, I will be either drinking my way over the North Pole as I fly from Boise via San Francisco to London... No, they don't have direct flights from Boise to London. Come to think of it, they don't have direct flights from Boise to anywhere. Correction, you can fly direct to Salt Lake City, but unless you're a Mormon, why the fuck would you want to? (Standing by for hate mail) On the other hand, I may have arrived and be sitting on a pub's doorstep waiting for them to open. Either way. I promise to post ASAP... Loyal AdScamer's know it'll be worth the wait. Sending large sums of money to pay for my beer might help.

My hotel... Shit included!

OK... I'm here in london. Arrived at about 6.30 this morning at Heathrow... What a fucking nightmare that place is. Jesus, you have to walk miles to get to the immigration crap, then stand in line for hours 'cos twenty fucking jumbo jets all landed at once and there are ten thousand wankers waiting to flash their fake passports. Then you ride in on the tube for two hours, 'cos a taxi to central London costs more then the GNP of a small African nation. Then you get to the hotel at about 9.30... AND THEY WON'T LET YOU CHECK IN 'TIL 2.0 IN THE FUCKING AFTERNOON. And the pubs aren't even open yet. Fortunately, the hotel has a library with computers and couches you can crash on... 'Til the pubs open. I'll post more later when I get into my fucking room and can fire up the laptop. If I'm awake... But as I'm meeting Ralf... "The Cartoonist" in the pub for a liquid lunch... I can't guarantee anything.

I have no fucking pictures on this computer!!!

Adweek is running a series of videos on its 30th anniversary featuring "Ad Ikons." The Poisoned Dwarf gets his five minutes of fame, going on about how things are getting tougher (Brilliant fucking insight, Diminutive One!) He also rants about New Media, Digital, Blah, Blah. Same old shit. But, at the beginning he does a teary bit about he owes it all to people who are "no longer with us." Including people he worked with when he was a fucking clerk or something in an accountancy office. Then he says he owes it all to his dad... Fuck me, I was so choked up, I had to open a new bottle of gin.

WPP... Pre-Digital!

You have to love bnet's Jim Edward's supposition that the primary reason BBDO lost Pepsi was 'cos the client finally got pissed off with being ripped off. Jim spells out how as sales of Pepsi went up, profits went down. Probably 'cos BBDO's bills increased by half a fucking billion dollars in the same time period profits were dropping. Typical BDA greed. Don't these guys ever learn. As the account is going to another Omnicom shop, Jim has these words of advice to TBWA/C/D... Make sure you bill at a significant percentage less than your sibling shop in Manhattan. Otherwise you won’t hold that account for very long. Dead fucking right.

How much of this shit do you guys need?

Seems like Yahoo's Board of Directors finally decided Jerry had made one fuck up too many. Today he will step down as CEO and return to his position of "Chief Yahoo!" Whatever the fuck that is. The official announcement has this from Yang... "When the Board asked me to become CEO and lead the transformation of the Company, I did so because it was important to re-envision the business for a different era to drive more effective growth. Having set Yahoo on a new, more open path, the time is right for me to transition the CEO role and our global talent to a new leader." What a load of shit. He re-envisioned the place down the crapper, the more effective growth is in his dope addled brain, and transition is Yahoo speak for fuck off! Jerry... Go play with your diminishing millions.

Fuck you Jerry!!!

I just found a picture of the married couple I talked about in my last post. Holy fucking shit... Now you know why Second Life was created!

Enough said!!!

About a year ago, I wrote about some of the weirdos who spend more time than is healthy, pretending to look like George Clooney while cruising Second Life on the look out for Angelina Jolie cloned Avatars. Well now the Metro newspaper in England tells us that a British woman is divorcing her husband after catching his Second Life avatar having cybersex with other virtual women. Holy fucking shit... You can't make this up. The couple met online in 2003, and within months, they were married both in real life and within Second Life!!! Now, she claims her husband's avatar, "David Barmy," (That's right, he's fucking Barmy!!!) couldn't keep his virtual dick in his virtual pants. Last year, she caught her husband's avatar having sex with a call girl in Second Life. They have fucking hookers in Second Life? Fortunately for the wife, all is not lost. After being miserable for a while, she's now found a new man in World of Warcraft.

You meet the nicest people on Second Life!