No Excuses

Looking at the state of creativity in advertising today, I can’t help but think of my cat, Eve. She’s a stray I picked up at the pound, and she’s forever troubled, pacing the house, meowing, mourning some inscrutable loss. “Whatever it is, it’s gone,” I tell her. “It’s gone.”

Eve would have found a few kindred spirits at the creative seminar Adweek sponsored recently at a desert lake resort outside Las Vegas. Judging from the talk in the hallways, many creatives are still beleaguered by the lost “creative revolution” of the late ’90s, the era when things supposedly were fun.