22 Stupid Random Thoughts.

1. I spend more time updating my Zoom than I spend on Zoom. That's probably a good thing.
   
   
2. Calling Zoom 'Zoom' is like naming your pet snail "Rocket." The time spent to things accomplished ratio ain't great.
   
   
3. Why has every day, every month and almost every square inch of amerika been given over to some sort of promotion? As I write this, I'm told it's National Cheeseburger Day.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Firing 10,000 people and calling it "furloughing" isn't fooling anyone.
   
   
5. Firing one person and calling it "furloughing" isn't fooling anyone, either.
   
   
6. I wonder if Harris-Walz would cinch the election if they came in pumpkin spice.
   
   
7. You really owe it to yourself to spend 90 minutes and watch Preston Sturges' 1940 movie, "The Great McGinty." This is the prologue. Which should convince you. Below, the cover art. Which should convince you.
   
   
8. 
   Chances are the Fed's rate cut will induce the holding companies the "furlough" more people.
   
   
9. A rate rise would do exactly the same. As would leaving rates alone.
   
   
10. As politicians ask are you better off than you were four years ago, is your ad agency? Is your agency better than it was four minutes ago?
    
    
11. The world was better before everyone had to signal their politics via a cheap enamel pin on their lapels. 
    
    
12. Years ago I believed New York had one Chinese kitchenthat was connected to thousands of restaurants via an underground labyrinth.
    
    
13. That's how I feel about agency Chief Strategy Officers today. There seems to be a central clearinghouse for generic insights.
    
    
14. 
    
    
    If Agency Spy calls a new campaign "wacky" you can be sure it's not. 
    
    
15. I don't think you're supposed to use the word wacky without irony. Wacky is a level beneath madcap.
    
    
16. Anyone who says "I'm excited for where that's going," or "That's a good question," or "We're on a journey," is full of shit.
    
    
17. I trust no one who has a strong feeling about the Oxford comma. Or candy corn. 
    
    
18. Or anyone who says they work at an intersection. Unless they're a traffic cop.
    
    
    
    
    
19. For those of you not interested in toning your upper body by toting around Robert Caro's 1975 Pulitzer-winning 1,298-page biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker," it's finally available on Kindle.
    
    
20. On Wednesday, I had breakfast with my last advertising boss and a two-hour zoom call with my first advertising boss.
    
    
21.  I just finished an assignment with one and I'm starting an assignment with the other.
    
    
22. I count that as good fortune.