Comments on: The Fall of Hammer Communications: How a Georgetown Ad Agency Built on McMansions Ended up in a Pile of Debt

By: Top 10 Housing Complex Posts of 2009 - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Top 10 Housing Complex Posts of 2009 - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:13:52 +0000

[...] Real World DC frenzy last Thursday to do the obligatory year-end top ten list. So, here you go: (1) The Fall of Hammer Communications: How a Georgetown Ad Agency Built on McMansions Ended up in a Pile... If not for the story, click for the comments [...]

By: Jack Shoptaw’s Latest Gig… - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Jack Shoptaw’s Latest Gig… - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:28:14 +0000

[...] since you can always count on some former Hammerite to repeat the news as soon as it starts swirling around, it’s time to start talking about SN [...]

By: More Lawsuits, Drama for Hammer CommunicationsI - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:42:07 +0000

[...] stories are published long before the drama ends. When I wrapped up my piece on Hammer Communications last June, I knew it would be one of those tales. All I could offer was one long chapter of this [...]

By: KB Home Coming Back to D.C. Market - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

KB Home Coming Back to D.C. Market - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:22:22 +0000

[...] writing about the demise of Georgetown advertising firm Hammer Communications, I’m keenly aware of the misfortunes of Ame.... Until this year, Hammer was seemingly swimming in cash from builders slowly gobbling up land [...]

By: Jack Shoptaw Tweets Now… - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Jack Shoptaw Tweets Now… - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:43:48 +0000

[...] After 110 comments and too many correspondences from reformed, newly-sainted commenters (read: people fearful of damaging their own reputations) pleading to remove certain things they’d written from our public thread, we finally shut down comments on the Hammer Communications story. [...]

By: Top Posts of THE PAST YEAR - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper

Top Posts of THE PAST YEAR - Housing Complex - Washington City Paper — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:07:17 +0000

[...] (1) “The Fall of Hammer Communications: How a Georgetown Ad Agency Built on McMansions Ended up in a Pile of Debt,” a story about an advertising company president who stops paying his employees and contractors, closes his business, and then re-launches a new advertising firm roughly a block away. [...]

By: Will Atwood Mitchell

Will Atwood Mitchell — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:55:20 +0000

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By: James Boston

James Boston — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:42:06 +0000

Will Mitchell,
Per your posting earlier about comments from people trying to appear like they are from someone else, PLEASE address again. D- is obviously one of those people. In this case they are trying to appear to be me and the comments they make are slanderous. Can't you identify these fake posters by IP addresses? If not, I would hope that this once interesting but now very tired story would be taken down or sadly, set up with no commenting options.
James E. Boston

By: James Boston

James Boston — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:26:44 +0000

Attention City Paper, the above POST from D- is another attempt by someone to post pretending to be someone else. THIS POST WAS NOT MADE BY ME even though I did recently run into Jack. I must have mentioned to whomever "D-" is about my running in to Jack. D- knows that if Jack reads the posting that he will have no doubt that it was made by me. It was not.I have NO knowledge of any of the other remarks in this posting. I only came back to the article because I was made aware that there was a comment that appeared to be from me. I am NOT D- and I am sick of this whole story.
James E. Boston

By: D-

D- — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Jack,
It was wonderful seeing you last weekend at the gay DC sports bar Nellie's with your new boyfriend. Boy, you sure like them young! It did my heart good to see that you were able to have such a wonderful time OUT, and rocking pink trousers no less, while you are being sued for hundreds of thousands, while your former employees can not make rent because you owe them money, and while your former vendors may have to close their doors. And who was looking after your kids while you were OUT, surly not your estranged wife who you incorrectly claimed battered you? Funny how homophobic you were towards your former gay employees while you were meeting male escorts at the Ritz-Carlton and in the Flour Mill parking garage. On second thought, it is not funny at all - just sad.