golly, it has been a while. we can take that as a sign of my notoriously short attention span or the fact that I have actually been working. (correct answer: a little from column a, a little from column b),

too many bad and revolting ads in the past several months to recount, but I've worked with a few bad ad wizard types and several revolting producers, none of which i'll be mentioning here by name of course, because I'm hoping they'll hire me again soon.