Disqus - Latest Comments for Jane

Re: On to a new creative home…

Jane — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:50:51 -0000

Welcome to BEAP! I linked to your blog earlier this week before I knew we would be working together. I’ll introduce myself on Monday (I think you’re getting my old cube.)

Re: The Art of the Shiv

Jane — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:24:49 -0000

It makes me think of Phil Hartman’s scene as an Alcatraz tour guide in “So I Married An Axe Murderer.”

Re: An open apology to Ze Frank

Jane — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:59:26 -0000

Eh, it wasn't that bad. I'm sure he didn't think you were mental or anything... (Always work in a "Wayne's World" reference when you can, I always say.)

Re: News Flash… Brand perception is crucial for ALL businesses… Film at 11.

Jane — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:02:48 -0000

I thought the same thing the time I actually ate at a U-Gene's (it was across the street from a hotel where I was attending a conference and I didn't want to spend the money to eat at one of the hotel's restaurants). The food is pretty good, but I think a lot more people would be willing to try it if they'd hired a professional illustrator early on.

Re: Class of 3000

Jane — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:25:50 -0000

Speaking of Adult Swim, have you watched any episodes of "Deathklok: Metalocalypse"? On the surface it sounds kind of cool (to me, anyway): Scandinavian death-metal band in outer space. Yeah, it's completely unwatchable. We took a break from band practice to check out the first episode and quickly decided it was a mercy that the episodes are only about 10 minutes long.

Re: The Xbox from the trash

Jane — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:04:57 -0000

I never turn up my nose at dumpster diving. A friend of ours has a nice Ebay sideline selling stuff that other people threw away.

Re: NaBloPoMo

Jane — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:59:09 -0000

Good luck! I think the weekend days will be the hardest.

Re: First-person games? Not for me, thanks.

Jane — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:43:57 -0000

That's bizarre and unfortunate. I hope you like other sorts of games.

Re: Handicraft

Jane — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:23:35 -0000

I grew up on a farm as well, and it's amazing how lazy the suburbs have made me. These days I pay someone else to mow my lawn and clean my house - a far cry from having to feed livestock and haul hay bales.

Re: My Competitive Advantage

Jane — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:37:02 -0000

Here was mine:

My brain is stuffed with trivia and Im constantly sponging up more information. Thats a huge advantage for a copywriter because it gives me a vast mental catalog that can be used to combine, synthesize and extract new ideas, concepts and turns of phrase.

Re: No “major award” here

Jane — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:41:00 -0000

That spot left me cold as well...but at least they didn't just put the ad copy in the mouths of the original characters.

Re: Snow Day Creativity

Jane — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:17:48 -0000

Have you ever used Freemind? It's free mind-mapping software that can really come in handy when you're on a roll and may start to lose legibility on a hand-drawn mind-map.

Re: NaBloPoMo Post-Game Analysis

Jane — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:14:53 -0000

Congratulations on making it through November. Your post quality was better than you think. :)

Re: Le Grand Content

Jane — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:37:15 -0000

I was just going to say that it reminded me of Indexed only moreso, and then I saw the last credit. Very cool!

Re: Trees they can’t find!

Jane — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:14:09 -0000

I am equally puzzled by the "Dollar Menunaires" campaign. Saying uncool things deliberately doesn't make them any less uncool. Also, am I supposed to know who Jeremy Miller is? "Cause even his IMDB listing is leaving me drawing a blank.

Re: Take care of yourself, capisce?

Jane — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:13:33 -0000

Glad you're doing so well. I'm going to use your post to try to influence my husband (diabetic, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, hypothyroid, etc., etc.) to take better charge of his health.

Re: So much bigger than I thought!

Jane — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:13:59 -0000

Ew, that's truly icky and horrible.

Re: Goulet!

Jane — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:59:38 -0000

I, too, find myself quite taken with the Robert Goulet spot. I grew up listening to the 1960 original cast recording of "Camelot," and I think I may still have a little Lancelot crush on him.

These commercials remind me a little of the Minute Maid commercials from a few years ago that inexplicably had Robert Loggia explaining the benefits of Vitamin C to a kid who inexplicably knew who he was.

Re: The union of the snake is on the climb

Jane — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:14:52 -0000

Nice Duran Duran reference!

Re: The world of the waning jingle?

Jane — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:12:06 -0000

My mom was an advertising writer/producer and I can still remember the words to a barbershop-tinged jingle she wrote for Grandview Bank (which has long since gone out of business) when I was a kid:

When you needed us, we were here
Into our 71st great year
Service...security, too
Let the Grandview Bank take good care of you

If I recall correctly, she'd originally written a variation of it for another client, then recycled the tune and general idea for Grandview Bank after the first client decided against it.

My point? Well, I guess I don't have one, except that jingles are catchy and it's a shame to let them die out.

Re: Creature Comforts

Jane — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:54:49 -0000

I wondered what happened to you! Hope you feel better soon. There's nothing like hours and hours of TV, punctuated by long naps, to help you shake an illness.

Re: All aboard the baby train!

Jane — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:59:15 -0000

Congratulations!!! I've already ordered your baby gift. Perhaps we could have a Coffee Morning shower for you closer to the due date...

Re: The Conversational Index

Jane — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:49:53 -0000

Wow! Mine was 2.93. That's better than I would have guessed.

Re: Class demarcation on social networking sites

Jane — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:51:45 -0000

I think MySpace is going to be ceded back to the bands pretty soon and Facebook will take over.

Re: News Flash… I am addicted to blogging.

Jane — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:16:09 -0000

I, too, am 71% addicted to blogging. It's a good thing I've never liveblogged anything - that would surely have put me over the edge.

Re: A sigh of relief.

Jane — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:27:30 -0000

Congrats!

Re: I need to see these… now

Jane — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:20:38 -0000

Awesome.

Re: Coming clean with an addiction… to the Knife Show

Jane — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:46:21 -0000

I sure hope that Time Warner doesn't carry this show because if it does, I may have no choice but to watch it. With the upcoming Writers' Guild strike, I'll need all the unscripted entertainment I can get.

Re: Tay Zonday chills with the hos

Jane — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:57 -0000

I knew it was only a matter of time before you posted this!

Re: Instant Press Release?

Jane — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:54:03 -0000

Your software is awesome! I used it this week for my community service group (that happens to so a lot of projects for our local Ronald McDonald House) and it turned out a great-looking document. I'll definitely recommend it to the club's future PR chairs (assuming I'm ever allowed to give up the job!).