Well, I don’t really know how to put my finger on it; I just found it lacking. As my wife said, if this is an indication of what the new season is going to be like, we’ve waited a long time for nothing good. A writer for Advertising Age is... read more →
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Jul
22
I'm just branching out into all sorts of new fields of endeavor since becoming a Mad Man and joining ADCO -- exploiting latent talents I didn't even know I had. Here's the latest: Hand model. Soon, you might be seeing my hand on a billboard down in the Lowcountry. That's... read more →
Jul
02
Yeah, it was great seeing the National Champion Gamecocks baseball team, and Mayor Benjamin, and Richland County Council, and the crowd, and the beautiful weather, etc. But this was our very favorite float in the parade today. See how Lanier's clapping?
Jul
01
Where was Brian all Wednesday afternoon? Well, that's easy -- the Gamecocks uber-fan was over at the Colonial Life Arena welcoming the National Champion University of South Carolina baseball team home from Omaha. While there, he snapped this image of the festivities to share with the rest of us. He's... read more →
Jun
29
Lanier, Lora and Brad went to the Midlands Aviation Summit today at the convention center, which was the community’s chance to hear airport consultant Michael Boyd of Boyd Group International (above) assessing the state of, and future prospects for, Columbia Metropolitan Airport. There was a pretty decent turnout of concerned... read more →
Jun
28
Finally, we're going to get our president back! Lanier Jones handed over the gavel of the Columbia Rotary Club Monday to Robin Gorman, thus ending his year as president of South Carolina's largest such club. Brian, Lora and Brad were in attendance, as all present celebrated a year of being... read more →
Jun
24
Friday is the long-awaited first day of ConvergeSE 2010, and late Thursday the offices at ADCO were bustling with activity and bristling with T-shirts, decals, magnets, mouse pads and other high-tech paraphernalia. What's ConvergeSE? Where have you been? ConvergeSE 2010 is intended for Web designers and developers, business executives, marketing... read more →
Jun
24
And lo! On the long-appointed day, the new iPhones arrived in four nondescript boxes, and all work ceased so that the people might give thanks and sing songs of praise. For the rest of the day, they were as children on Christmas morning. Navin Johnson wasn't nearly as excited about... read more →
May
13
Lately on Twitter, I’ve gotten into Retweeting, which is the cheap and easy way to share cool stuff you run into there. For those of you not familiar with it, basically I see a cool thing (or something that MIGHT be cool; sometimes I’m too busy to follow the link... read more →
May
05
In Steve's office are 120 flame-red boxes about to go out to meeting planners across the country. In each is a zippered pouch containing a heavy-duty lighter and door hangers asking "Is it hot in here, OR IS IT JUST ME?" It's all part of the "Famously Hot" campaign devised... read more →