Clowning Around
Okay, so where am I? Well, I am sitting at my office marveling at the ESPN news alert that just came through my phone: “NHL: Vegas Golden Knights’ trademark request denied due to ‘likelihood of confusion’ with logo for College of Saint Rose.” Seriously? I mean boys, I wrote you back in June suggesting that […]
Liam Neeson = Big Ad Man
According to the Nielsen company, all of us ad executives looking for a celebrity to endorse our client’s products won’t do better than Taken and Schindler List star Liam Neeson. Nielsen concluded that after looking at celebrities who recently made commercials and ranked then them with a formula that calculates likability, influence, public awareness,
An Open Letter to the NHL
This from ESPN’s Craig Constance last night: “In the fall of 2017, when we celebrate the 100th birthday of the NHL, we will do so as a League of 31 teams,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. “We are pleased to welcome Bill Foley and the city of Las Vegas to the League […]
Playoff Ratings – The Tale of Two Bays
Okay, so where am I? I just finished refereeing the kids in our belated Father’s Day trip to see Finding Dory. Better than the first installment (Finding Nemo), the family movie was just the trick to soften stubbornness and unite the already close clan we are. Media bonds the family. All you have to do […]
Selena, Annie, and More Stupid Advertising from Across the Pond
Okay, so where am I? (More on that in a minute). In between my regular job (well, it’s not so regular, it’s actually invigorating), working with the team to prepare the campaign overview for the Clio submission (it’s hard to condense so much genius into a two-minute video) and re-writing scripts for my Japanese television […]
Godzilla and His Loose Connection to Azerbaijan: Me
Okay, so where am I? There’s no truth that I was able to secure a plum seat ringside for the Mayweather v. Pacquiao at the MGM this weekend in Las Vegas…yeah, uh, $4,000 for a ticket just to get in is a bit too much. And, I may or may not be in Azerbaijan looking […]
The Neon Museum
Before Twitter and Facebook and the whole word of mouth substitute known as social media hit the landscape, Las Vegas owned the blog-o-sphere when it was still called the “newspaper industry.” The primary reason was the glitter of their neon signs and endless string of lights that danced in front of us promising fortune to […]
MGS CHAT: MISS USA 2010 RIMA FAKIH
A QUEEN SPEAKS OUT: One-on-one with former Miss USA Rima Fakih Article can also be read at ALO magazine story link These days, Rima Fakih has one rule for her life: Don’t put encumbrances on her. And who can blame her! The first Arab-American queen in the history of the Miss USA pageant was put under […]
Las Vegas in the Oh-Tens
Back in Los Angeles, I was sitting at The Media Guy’s field office [read: Starbucks] when the good folks at the home office decided it was a good idea to send me back to Vegas. It’s only been 18 years since the whole Desert Inn incident and since the court documents incident reports are sealed […]
Rockin’ with The Champ and Miss USA
Okay, so where am I? I’m in Las Vegas at Eva Longoria’s Eve Nightclub inside Crystals at CityCenter. I threw a one, two-punch this Fourth of July Weekend as I hung with hosts Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih and undefeated six-time World Champion boxer Floyd Mayweather and took over the glamorous club. Eve Nightclub presented the […]
