Or maybe happy hour needs to be moved up to 3.

It goes without saying that I’m a genius who’s best work was killed by clients. Or met a fate worse than death.

But I did meet Alex Bogusky once after he gave a presentation to our Ad Club on how you don’t need a big budget if you have a big idea. He was inspiring. I asked him if I could get a copy of his reel and a tape showed up at my office in the mail. I was floored. It contained early low budget tv that he did. Awesome. Still have it.

Fixed it. Enjoy the non-pain-in-the-ass videoing now.

Desperate to view PC’s “I’m a Mac” campaign rebuttal (because they seemingly can’t invent anything on their own anymore – ok, that ZUNE logo was pretty original), I clicked the above link and found myself in Microsoft world. Which, as the name sort of implies, is quicksand.

Lo and be old, there’s a fresh proprietary Microsoft Presspass Silverlight video player! And I thought video would never come to internet. Leave it to Bill. I suppose ultimately we can always use more formats… and icky player installs on our crowded laptops. Sigh. Pardon my tone, but if Mac doesn’t continue to gobble up market share in the evolving webworld of personal computing, Google will. Because they get it. Simple sells. Bill should put that on a Post-It. Or maybe he’s busy inventing those now.

Ok, just checked and my .wmv download is done. I’m not a super shining bright bulb, but still, consider this. The only way I could find to make PC’s self-promotional video play on Bill Gate’s own freaking corporate site was to copy down the file to my desktop. And it crawled. And here’s what it did. By the time we got to “I blog for Obama… and I’m like Rush Limbaugh” I about blogged into my lap.

THAT said, it’ll probably “move product” and maybe talk some people down off the fence, if not stem the tide going over it. And it probably kills the “I’m a Mac” ads – which are endlessly funny, but not endless. But – and this is a buge hairy but – Apple’s ad people are locking and loading. PC better duck, because – and I’ve been building up to this – Alex sold out. That is not the work he wanted to sell. It’s the work Microsoft wrote and bought. Just a huge hunch. And here’s another: Apple’s agency won’t have that problem.