Tag Archives: shameless self-promotion

The Substitute Babysitter

Posted on August 1, 2012 by pegoleg

I hated babysitting.  They say kids and dogs know when you’re afraid of them and they take advantage of your terror.  That they can tell when you don’t like them.  Even as a teenager I didn’t like kids (not counting … Continue reading →

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Which Whatchamacallit Will Win?

Posted on July 30, 2012 by pegoleg

Thanks to all who entered to win the (soon-to-be) coveted Peg-o-Clio Award.  Your task was to craft an ad campaign to sell the following item to an unsuspecting world. I convened a distinguished panel of judges over the weekend (being … Continue reading →

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Fry-day Heats Up

Posted on July 27, 2012 by pegoleg

Me: Here It is finished. Thanks to all who entered the Peg-o-Clio Advertising Award contest.  I am overwhelmed at the talent all y’all have – we’re talking advertising skills capable of selling ice to the Eskimos.  (I hope that isn’t … Continue reading →

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Peg-o-Clio Award Hangs In The Balance

Posted on July 26, 2012 by pegoleg

Did you watch the Clio Awards results show on TV last night?  The creativity shown in those advertisements is mind boggling.  That’s why the Clio has long been considered the pinnacle of achievement in the advertising world…until now. Move over … Continue reading →

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This Whatchamacallit Is the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread!

Posted on July 20, 2012 by pegoleg

The TV show Mad Men has been nominated for more Emmys than any other cable drama.  Is it because of the steamy sex bits?  The Peyton Place-like drama?  Christina Hendrick’s impossible curves or Jon Hamm’s smoldering magnetism?  Nah…it’s the chance … Continue reading →

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I Sold Out To The Man

Posted on July 17, 2012 by pegoleg

Big Business Daddy Warbucks Halliburton  Big Pharma  Wall Street  The Man  That Guy In The Monopoly Game

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Don’t Let Tinkerbell Die!

Posted on July 2, 2012 by pegoleg

This old song from The Kingston Trio really gets you thinking, doesn’t it?  Never mind that peace and war stuff, though.  What I want to know is this: Where have all the readers gone?

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Weekend Wanderings

Posted on June 8, 2012 by pegoleg

Oh my darling clementines, I must leave you now.  I’m heading out-of-town for a weekend of family fun in the great state of Michigan.  (Michigan – it’s a state of mind.)  I will be incommunicado.  Not only that, Gilligan, but I probably … Continue reading →

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Kaption Kontest Kreates Krazy Konnections

Posted on June 7, 2012 by pegoleg

It seems like only yesterday, yet it was a long, LONG (really very long) time ago that I was last a finalist in the caption contest over at The Good Greatsby’s blog.  Some would say I belong in the finals EVERY time, … Continue reading →

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There Are Too Many Talented People On Here

Posted on June 1, 2012 by pegoleg

. . I recently saw the Woody Allen movie “Midnight In Paris”. Owen Wilson plays a modern writer who visits Paris and steps through time to the 1920s.  He becomes friends with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter and F. … Continue reading →

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