Doug deGrood has crazy golf hip-hop skills

If you're an aficionado of golf-related hip-hop (and who among us is not?), you'll want to check out this video Doug deGrood (of Minneapolis agency Gabriel deGrood Bendt) created in an effort to win some on-the-links time with Michael Jordan at the site of this year's U.S. Open. Whatever else you'd say about such an effort, it is not par for the course.

—Posted by Mark Dolliver

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A Minneapolis agency's boozy holiday pitch

Hard times demand new efficiencies, so let us tip our Santa Claus hats to Minneapolis agency Gabriel deGrood Bendt for combining two usually distinct categories into one convenient package: an online holiday card and a Mad Men parody. If the effort doesn't win the agency a multibillion-dollar eggnog account in 2009, there's no justice in this world.

—Posted by Mark Dolliver

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Inter-utensil romance blooms at Kona Grill

AdFreak's top honors this week in the Kinkiest Restaurant Ad category go to the Kona Grill chain (and its Minneapolis-based agency, Gabriel deGrood Bendt) for this blackmailesque photo of fork and chopsticks in bed together. The idea is that Kona Grill is "a place where opposites attract," though it's not self-evidently obvious that forks and chopsticks are opposites (rather than, say, variations on the same theme). Another ad in the series pursues the illicit-affair theme with the headline, "Meat lover and sushi lover caught swapping plates." In still another, "Adventurous foursome shares each other's spicy tuna rolls." If nothing else, all this naughtiness makes it plain that Kona Grill is not what you'd call a "family restaurant."

—Posted by Mark Dolliver

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