Tom Haddon was poking around on the Internet one day, looking for the E-Trade babies ‘cause they make him laugh, when he came across AdJack.
“A hobby of mine for the past ten years or so is to go on the Internet and find contests, and kind of just look around. I was looking for those baby commercials; you know the ones.
“I enjoy all the commercials more than I enjoy television now. I look for things that are humorous these days. I don’t need all that gloom and doom on TV. I find a lot of comedic relief in the commercials. I don’t want to know about the darkness and problems in the world. I’d rather laugh.”
Tom found himself a rural retreat in Selinsgrove, PA several years ago, a tiny town that is home to Susquehanna University. When the weather is good, you might find him at the fastest half-mile dirt track in the east, Selinsgrove Speedway. He cheered the high school football team to the state AAA championship this fall. He likes football commercials, too.
The week of November 27 Tom says was a very good week. He won the $1,000 CrackaJack, and was notified that he also won a 2010 Volkswagen GTI, the fourth of only six available in the contest. “That’s by far the luckiest week I’ve ever had in my life.”
On a larger scale, Tom says he lucked out in daughters, claiming to have produced… more
Klosterman grew up on a farm outside Wyndmere, North Dakota and upon graduating from University of North Dakota, spent several years writing for the Fargo Forum, then the Akron Beacon-Journal in Ohio. Since then, he has written a New York Times bestseller, Downtown Owl, and several other books on pop culture. His latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, covers a wide range of topics including advertising. He’s getting interviewed all over the place, and in case you haven’t read any of them, we bring you a couple of quotes here.