Monday, November 30, 2009

My father gets a gift from Mae Clarke.

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One day when I was about 14 my father decided he needed to tell me a story about Mae Clarke’s pubic hair. According to my father, I was 14 a...
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Breasts.

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There's a full page ad in The New York Times today that struck my eye. Mainly because it seems like someone interpolated an oddly-shaped...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Hale Smith.

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I just read an obituary in The New York Times of a composer who "mixed classical and jazz," a man called Hale Smith who played, ar...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

You have to make something.

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I finished Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" last night and one of the last stories, "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" ...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

More on story-telling.

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We hear a lot about story-telling in the business and most of it seems to me to be so much blather. People--that is, clients, don't real...
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Now, come on.

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For the last time, It's not Black Friday, It's "African-American Friday."
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Still thinking of Billy Wilder.

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Lest we think focus groups are a recent affliction, Billy Wilder told a story about audience reactions to a film he wrote with Charles Brack...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving Special. How to artificially inseminate a female turkey.

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Probably a bit late for this year's feast.

Quotation of the day.

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I adapted this from Bruce Mau. "Cool is fear dressed in black."
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How will the world end?

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Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with...