Friday, October 31, 2008

This is not to my liking.

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My wife, who is in the business, pointed to a disturbing trend that has emerged over the last few years. Not to be sexist, but this trend co...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

This is a cola nut.

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Oh, more than 35 years ago, Geoffrey Holder starred in a series of memorable commercials for the soft-drink 7-Up. "These are a cola nut...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

You think you have it bad.

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This morning I picked up and began reading Robin Robertson's new translation of Euripedes' "Medea." Medea is over 2500 yea...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Oh, the humanity.

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A mellifluous co-worker just called my attention to the ad copy below and above. There are many things that make me question the sanity of o...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

A new word.

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I went to the highly-publicized Chanel mobile art exhibit in Central Park this weekend. Oh so lovely and oh so pretentious. First were the p...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

T-shirt for the times.

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Skating horses. Absurdity as reported by the Times.

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Ogosuki, Japan. Special to The New York Times. This small island in the China Sea just 30 kilometers (18 miles) off the coast of central Jap...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Theatre of the absurd.

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I have been told I have a Marxian (the brothers, not Karl) sense of humor. A heightened sense of the absurd. I usually respond by telling pe...
Friday, October 24, 2008

More inflated language.

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I went into the kitchen of my agency this morning to get my customary bowl of oatmeal and I noticed the type on a box of disposable utensils...
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A 1950 view of the 2008 election race.

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, America faced a tremendous internal terrorist threat. That came from US Senator Joseph McCarthy who used ...