Saturday, January 31, 2009

The layoff tracker.

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http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/17/layoff-tracker-unemployement-lead-cx_kk_1118tracker.html I found this on Forbes. I wish it were live like t...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Feed me! Feed me! (I'm a typo.)

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I walked into the lobby of my apartment house and saw a notice that we were having an owners' meeting for the co-op. It's being held...

Story-telling.

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Today's client cliche, boys and girls, is the phrase "story-telling," as in "the ad should be story-telling, it should te...
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OSOR.

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I just came upon this in The New York Times. If you were pondering why our economy is collapsing, why our industry is collapsing, why it see...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Post Office. And advertising.

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My brilliant friend Tore just sent me a note about the Post Office cutting back service (I assume from three days a month to two) due to the...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

And now a word from Bill Bernbach.

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My boss asked me what I want him to get out of a meeting with a high-level client. I thought and thought and then I remembered this. Rewrite...
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John Updike, 1932-2009.

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The great John Updike died yesterday. These are my remembrances from working with "Rabbit," as I dubbed him. Back during the halcy...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Going to the movies.

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I decided to light out of the office at lunch yesterday to take in Hollywood's hottest picture: "Paul Blart Mall Cop." It was ...

April is the cruelest moth.

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Oh, I could make this post--pursuant to my post yesterday about "boarders" and as The Ad Contrarian pointed out "quantifiable...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Sometimes I just want to scream.

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As the creative head of my office, I have been asked by management (whatever that means) to participate in an "Office Evaluation."...
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