More Evidence

Ad Monkey Omar just sent along some of the pics he took on our recent Padre Island Adventure From Hell, a few of which I’ve added to Advantage.

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Sharing My Testicles With the World

Ad Monkey Rikki over at Puce Attack started a great site for sharing foods of the world called “Gimme Your Stuff.”

The site started after she swapped Tex-Mex with a Texan.

I love the idea, but now that the #1 stereotypical Texas food has been taken, what am I left to share with others? Calf fries? I’m sure they will be a huge hit with the international crowd.

Any takers? Yeah. Thought so.

EDIT: Ok, ok, enough about my testicles.

Given my location (Texas), my avocation (cross-over advertising), and my self image (I’m hot, baby :cough:), I’ve decided that bottles of Valentina Hot Sauce, Mexico’s finest, will be my gift to the world.

This ain’t no weak-ass “salsa,” mind you, this is salsa, a true Mexican hot sauce that’s good on (or in) anything you can think of, from chips to pizza to frenchfries.

Personally, I use it in my Sangrita recipe.

That’s right. I actually drink this stuff. Consume it at your own risk.

8 commentsEmail Article Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 at 03:35pm Mack Simpson

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From the “Ouch” Department

As passed on via a new link in my blogroll, “Putney Swope,” I give you this: a quote from Omnicom’s chairman, John Wren, taking AdAge writer Mathew Cramer to task over some comments Cramer made in one of his articles.

“With all due respect, I have to bring you up a little bit short in thinking about the ad-agency-proper, as you would put it, the idea that magazines like yourselves and your competitors are the voice of what’s happening in marketing today. You’re not.”

Pow.

I met Wren when he flew in for our high-profile pitch for the 7-Eleven business and I have a lot of respect for the business acumen of the man (a respect that has nothing to do with the fact he raised the average personal wealth of Dallas the moment he touched ground at the airport). It’s fun to see him pimp slapping the pundits.

The only thing that would have made it better is if Wren had signed off with “I’m John Wren, biatch!”

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Spam! Spam! Spam!

My little site is in the midst of a comment spam storm that began late Sunday.

I moderate comments, of course, so none of it will make it through, but all the same it’s still a pain in the ass– there’s just so much of it.

From the looks of it, some spammer is using a legion of zombie machines spread across a slew of IP addresses and I am now beginning to ban various IP ranges from the site.

If you’re a regular, here, and you suddenly find yourself caught up in the dragnet and begin receiving Error 403 (forbidden) messages when you visit, drop me an email and I’ll take care of it.

My email address is easy to figure out– think “first name at domain name” and you’ll do just fine.

5 commentsEmail Article Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 at 08:05am Mack Simpson

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