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Nuts and Gum: July 2005
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. You’ve watched ‘24’-Now eat the energy bar. The second TV commercial also does a nice case of summing up the Jack’s typical dialogue, yelling into a cell phone YES! And it is funny to see Jack being stymied by a subway car full of J school girls. Calorie Mate/24 web campaign with TV commercials. Posted by O.G. at 10:37 PM. Links to this post. Mugging: The new Olympic sport. This spoofed image was used. As you can see here. Masamania on ...
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Nuts and Gum: Get your headcrabs! Fresh from Xen! Don't be the last one on your block without a headcrab!
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. Don't be the last one on your block without a headcrab! The above are fake banner ads on a site that has with sewing plans. On how to make your own headcrab. From the game Half-Life. Since the owner didn't have any real ads, s/he thought they would make up some fake ones. The sewing plans look vaguely involved but some of the end products don't look too bad. Too bad that Valve chickened out with their own efforts on this front.
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Nuts and Gum: What doesn't Ebay pretend to sell?
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. What doesn't Ebay pretend to sell? It is reassuring to see that Ebay, when not trying to explain why Skype was worth $2 billion, is investing its cash in ad buys like this. Given Ebay's rapacious and wholly inefficient ad buying strategy, I guess it shouldn't be that surprising that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.such as in this Register piece. On what cropped up shortly after the death of Croc Hunter Steve Irwin.
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Nuts and Gum: November 2004
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. Gum and Nuts: Real world product #1. I won't claim that my taste buds are the base median for the US, but I'm pretty sure that not a lot of people were walking around saying, "hmmmm, I need some spice in my life.Yes, a spicy cola would do the trick.". While I can easily see a meeting of Pepsi marketing folks chewing over various iterations of this text ('We gotta push frequency! Posted by O.G. at 11:42 PM. Links to this post. This promp...
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Nuts and Gum: March 2005
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. A day in the life of Ebay toy pimp. On occasions, it occurs to me that my life is likely very different that most other people’s. Last Thursday I woke up shortly after 7AM, about 4 hours earlier than I have been getting up most days for the last few months. I dressed promptly and went out the door, picking up 3 of the four daily papers I currently subscribe to (yet another unusual aspect of my life). What would get me up this early?
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Nuts and Gum: May 2005
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. Ebay sellers as literary feedstock. Lonely Trivial Pursuit seller on Ebay. You are bidding on trivial pursuit 20th anniversary Edition game. It is used but in great shape. Only played twice. The reason I am seeling it is because I don't have anyone to play it with anymore. ". Aren't you wondering why and how this came about? You could do half a novel off this starting point alone. Posted by O.G. at 6:10 PM. Links to this post. Iga, Mie ...
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Nuts and Gum: February 2005
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. NYT feels bad for Paris Hilton. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/weekinreview/27paris.html? Some Sympathy for Paris Hilton. As unlikely as the preceding sentence might seem, there is ample reason to pity Ms. Hilton, the heiress, reality-TV actress, product pitchwoman and accidental porn starlet. While the piece mostly focuses on the ChoicePoint scandal, it did have this presumably unintentional gaff. This picture with. This caption und...
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Nuts and Gum: December 2004
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. The first rule of Nuts and Gum is. I am just starting out with this blog and I am a bit uncertain about what I am going to do with this. While I doubt I will come up with a Fight Club list of rules, I suspect that things will boil down along these lines:. I am not going to write about personal things in a specific sense. The world already has far too many blogs that go ' I did this, I did that, I am God's special snowflake. These two or...
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Nuts and Gum: The end of Yellow Ribbon Magnets?
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. The end of Yellow Ribbon Magnets? From the front page of last Saturday's Financial Times. Yellow ribbons dwindle with war support. By Andrew Ward in Atlanta. Published: March 2 2007. At its peak, the North Carolina-based company employed 180 people to handle sales, marketing and distribution. Today, it employs 11 people. Mr Pattisall said declining support for the war was not the only reason for the slump. A flood of cheap i...On Ebay, ...
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Nuts and Gum: August 2005
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A marketing heretic with an interest in modern Japanese pop culture. Vader Has a Posse! Vader has a posse. According to the creator. A Lucasarts employee, the 220 pound weight is Vader’s weight with the suit on. Guess those cybernetic arms and legs are pretty lightweight, given Vader’s size. In a similar note, you can keep it real on the Jedi side as well. Kit Fisto has Meat Dreadlocks. Posted by O.G. at 10:55 PM. Links to this post. Ah, just when I was starting to think it was time for another visit.
