The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Funny for 30 seconds? Oh yeah. 30 minutes?

Posted in TV & Radio

Hey ABC? Next time, maybe do a little research.

The key to a really fresh and fun concept staying that way is to avoid overexposure. But entertainment executives rarely subscribe to the “less is more” theory, and as a result we get

Who's winning, the dashes or the lines? I can never tell.

Posted in Advertising, Retrotisements

Retrotisement – NFL Deluxe Electronic Football

Chris Holmes
posted on March 1, 2007September 15, 2011
1 Comment

Hot on the heels of the wildly popular Mattel Football handheld game, Tudor Games released NFL DELUXE Electronic Football in 1980. Toy companies are certainly no stranger to hyperbole, but I think

Posted in Funny Stuff, TV & Radio

Do you know who I am? I’m Chris Hansen dammit!$#!

Chris Holmes
posted on February 28, 2007June 8, 2011
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Last night “To Catch a Predator,” still quaintly referred to as Dateline NBC (as if anything else on that show matters anymore), brought the Chris Hansen Tour ’06-’07 to

Posted in Blogstuff

OK, I’m done changing things…I think.

Chris Holmes
posted on February 27, 2007April 22, 2011
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After trying about a dozen different templates in the last 24 hours, I think I finally found one I can live with. It’s basically a modified version of this one. It support Widgets, which is

Posted in Games & Toys

The one and only king

Chris Holmes
posted on February 27, 2007April 30, 2013
6 Comments

Wherein Chris Holmes professes his love for Burger King's "The King" mascot, especially in bobblehead

Posted in Music

Rooooooooooxanne!

Chris Holmes
posted on February 26, 2007June 18, 2013
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Well the gods truly smiled on me today. After getting denied on Police tickets for MSG, I managed to score them for their August date at Giants Stadium! Of course it’s pretty far back, so I

Posted in Blogstuff

Whew!

Chris Holmes
posted on February 26, 2007April 22, 2011
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Well, after finally getting fed up with Blogger (in spite of their recent, long-overdue upgrade), I decided to close up shop and move to the more affluent section of town – WordPress. Of course

Posted in Retrotisements

Retrotisement – Triumph cigarettes

Chris Holmes
posted on February 25, 2007March 29, 2011
1 Comment

I say any time you can incorporate your company’s name with an advertising slogan, that’s a stroke of genius. So what exactly is the “UMPH!” in Triumph cigarettes? Carbon

Posted in Music

So many decisions…

Chris Holmes
posted on February 24, 2007June 18, 2013
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I’m sure you have been coming here every day for months, wondering what happened to me. Kind of like opening the refrigerator 20 times in a night in the hopes that something new and delicious

Hey ABC? Next time, maybe do a little research.

Retrotisement – NFL Deluxe Electronic Football

Do you know who I am? I’m Chris Hansen dammit!$#!

OK, I’m done changing things…I think.

The one and only king

Rooooooooooxanne!

Whew!

Retrotisement – Triumph cigarettes

So many decisions…

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