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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Worms Turning. The Come-Uppance Edition.

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It's hard, such is his evil, to see anything, read anything, eat anything, talk to anyone etc. and not think about the nastiness of trum...

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

What Kind Are You?

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A lot of old people in what's left of the advertising industry spend a lot of phonemes and morphemes lamenting how the industry has chan...

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Fred and Minnie.

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The smartest person I know, the most-voracious, the most-curious, the most-tireless is my big brother, Fred. Fred's 21-months older tha...

Monday, April 7, 2025

Green Arrows.

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I had quite a week last week. As did what we used to call the civilized world. This may be apocryphal but that doesn't mean it's wit...

Friday, April 4, 2025

Get Reel.

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A lot of people get on my ass because I don't imbibe in about 99.7-percent of what's currently on TV, or streaming or whatever. Neit...

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Not Easy.

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A friend of mine just sent me a note. That's a screen shot of its contents, above. Someone I don't know posted it on some social med...

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Karatydides.

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I remember when I first read the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." I was twenty. In those days The New Yorker used to pub...

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Fool Me Once.

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About 15 years ago when I was an ECD at R\GA (if you have brain cells left, you might remember calculations like what follows) the hot metri...

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