Truex.org » Media http://truex.org Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:43:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Mother Goose and… what? http://truex.org/2009/04/24/mother-goose-and-what/ http://truex.org/2009/04/24/mother-goose-and-what/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:04:48 +0000 Truex http://truex.org/?p=43 It turns out the fellow who draws Mother Goose and Grimm also draws editorial cartoons. The daily strip is an exercise in the banal, but the editorial cartoons are actually pretty good.

Speak, speak!

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Good Dog

It took me a moment for everything to come together, but when it did and I thought “I get it” the advertisers won. They were able to invoke an emotional response in me, tied to the product, which might influence future purchases; the payoff was clever enough that I’m not left resenting the company.

To be fair I don’t even have a fucking dog, but still.

]]> http://truex.org/2009/03/17/good-ad-dog/feed/ 0 First Rule of Los Angeles Radio http://truex.org/2007/07/09/first-rule-of-los-angeles-radio/ http://truex.org/2007/07/09/first-rule-of-los-angeles-radio/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:34:34 +0000 Truex http://truex.org/?p=25 As the amount of time spent listening to KROQ in Los Angeles approaches and exceeds n, where n represents any length of time in excess of 5 minutes, the probability of a crappy Linkin Park song being played approaches 1.

KROQ, all Linkin Park, all the time. Christ.

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