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The Denver 50: Postmortem

We’re going to talk honestly here for a minute about Tuesday night’s New Denver Ad Club show. If your skin is thin, you should probably stop reading and jump back to whatever it was you were just doing.

For the rest of you, let’s get into this. We were amped for the show all day yesterday. None of us here at The Egotist are ad club members, but we were energized and motivated to push our readers hard not to miss it. We honestly thought it would be one of those do-not-miss type deals.

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GM and Ford: Different Roads to Washington

From Guest Editor, Jeremy Greenfield

Big news this week in the ad industry is that GM plans to attempt to slash its $3.2 billion advertising budget to only $2.6 billion by 2012 if the government can come through with some $12 billion in bridge loans within the next year. Let me summarize this piece of news this way:

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Wednesday Morning Poll #22

A year of hype lead up to last night’s Denver 50 Show, the New Denver Ad Club’s annual award event. We’ve got our own assessment of what went down – from the venue to the music to the food to the vibe to, most importantly, the work on display. But before we decide whether to blame it all on our bad mood last night, we wanted to get a sense of what you thought of the show from those who hit it. So, hit it.

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Movie Review: Transporter 3

It’s always a toss up trying to decide the top sequels in the history of film. Is it Godfather II? Superman II? Porky’s II? Then of course, you have your abundance of sequel’s sequels….Mission Impossible III…Evil Dead III (Army of Darkness)…Back To The Future III. But, once in a lifetime there comes a film that just screams, please make three of me. That, friends, is Transporter 3.

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The Egotist Interviews: Eric Karjaluoto

The problem with agency sites today, and this really goes for any static website today, is just that – it’s static. Which means there’s no reason for anyone to revisit. The thinking stays frozen in time and so does your portfolio – not a good thing for an agency that wants to appear as a mover and shaker.

In an attempt to encourage more Colorado agencies to get their own blogs cooking, we talked to the author of one of our favorite agency blogs up in Vancouver, Eric Karjaluoto of ideasonideas (the blog of interactive agency smashLAB).

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Yes, We Are Thankful

We’re sure you’re familiar with the current state of the economy. It’s bad. In the words of one noted economist appearing on a recent news program, “Dang, it’s poopy out there. Real, real poopy.” Indeed it is. The stock market is in the tank. Unemployment is high. Major corporations are posting cataclysmic losses. Our kids are facing the very real possibility of receiving homemade sock puppets for Christmas this year. Times are tough.

Still, here we are on the eve of Thanksgiving and we feel compelled to count our blessings. And, of course, we feel compelled to share them with you.

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I want Sarah Palin to be My Turkey Lurkey Girl

From Guest Editor, Jeremy Greenfield

What you didn’t see in the now-famous Sarah Palin/turkey slaughter video was the cameraman pissing his pants. He actually blew a hole in his jeans about one minute into the interview. Equally entertaining was the look on the reporter’s face. If you saw her, you might think it was what is classically known as an “O-face.” But us grizzled journalists know it as the “are you getting this?!” face. Question is, what does this mean for the advertising community?

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McFail

McDonald’s is officially the king of phony. From the chubby-chested, hormonally-infused chickens from which they manufacture McNuggets all the way through the shamefully fake new campaign they’ve launched to push this sorry excuse for sustenance, they are bulldozing new boundaries of artificiality. If you were watching football this past Sunday, you already know what we’re referring to – the fowl-smelling “Nuggnuts” campaign that came clucking into your comfy home sanctuary – and crapped on your lap.

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Movie Review: Last Chance Harvey

We’re still recovering from the Starz Film Festival that happened this past week in Denver. It was a great show as usual. Amazing movies and too many late nights…but that didn’t stop us from catching the closing night film, Last Chance Harvey. This Dustin Hoffman vehicle is a rare find these days. A romantic movie for the much older crowd. No, we don’t mean thirty and older. We’re talking seventy and older. Big time older and if this movie proves anything…age ain’t nothing but a number.

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The Rant: Don't Be Afraid to Shoot the Sick Dog

Volume 17 In a Series By Felix

So many chapters of Luke Sullivan’s classic book “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This” struck a chord with me, but none so much as the one entitled “Only The Good Die Young.” In it, he refers to a job that comes back to the copywriter/art director team weighed down with client comments. What follows is all too familiar:

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