Let's be honest, the Giants could use this guy, too.
The San Francisco Giants' entire ad campaign used to boil down to "Come watch: We Got Barry." Now the overriding message is, "Come watch: Barry's gone." A quartet of new Giants ads have been playing on San Francisco screens, and the theme couldn't be clearer: These guys are young, fun, and just like you! Hey, they even take Muni! To wit: A man in a business suit running around the street is gunned down at "home" on a toss over all the park
Joe EskenaziJonathan Zambole and some of his creationsThere's no way around it -- Jonathan Zambole's reputation is inflated. That's not a knock on him; the kid is a balloon animal -- and mineral and vegetable -- prodigy. The 18-year-old Burlingame man is skinny as one of his balloons, and Conan O'Brien-pale, with close-cropped red hair. But you're not going to notice any of that. You'll notice the elaborate balloon monkey he carries by his side, and the Beach Blanket Babylon-worthy inflatable cr
Just prior to the season, we chatted with the impresario behind the Giants' latest round of TV ads. As we put it then, "The San Francisco Giants' entire ad campaign used to boil down to 'Come
watch: We Got Barry.' Now the overriding message is, 'Come watch:
Barry's gone.'" Needless to say, it hasn't worked out that way -- despite the team's effort to, in effect, ride Barry as far as he would take them and then, when he grew to be a liability, derive what energy it could by burning his corpse. No
Yes, today's new Chronicle is more than an inch thinner than its prior incarnation Of all the many complaints leveled against the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's too darn wrinkly" never came up with us. And still, there was the Chron proudly announcing the dawn of its "wrinkle-free era" today with papers rolling off the billion-dollar (non-union) Transcontinental presses in Fremont. We have plenty of thoughts, but here are two first and foremost: If any of the Chron's orgiastic coverage of its ow
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