Monday, January 31, 2011

A New Yorker's take on Egypt. (Borscht Belt edition.)

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Q. Have you heard what's happening in Egypt? A. I live in the back. I don't hear anything.
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This is complicated, so stay with me.

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Like most people, at times I dread Mondays. There's a long week of work ahead of us, and not much of a way out of it. So here's what...
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Last night.

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Last night I was dragged to a poetry and fiction reading in the damp basement of a Greenwich Village restaurant. The space, cramped and dark...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Edward Hopper at the Whitney.

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My wife and I dropped in on the Whitney, the perfect thing to do for an hour or so as the first sun and mild temperatures in about a week be...
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Boxes and their contents.

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This is pretty simple. And it applies to jobs, relationships and more. In advertising and outside of advertising. Bad jobs, bad relationship...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Cairo, 2009.

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Two summers ago I went to Egypt on vacation with my wife and two daughters. We stayed in Giza, the city across the Nile from and contiguous ...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Bloom's deli and the first time I was fired.

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In the crush of Manhattan snow, my wife picked up dinner last night at a deli around the corner from her office, a deli called "Bloom...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

A bit more Feynman.

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After working so intensely on the Manhattan Project, Feynman was hired by Cornell University as a Professor of Physics. He was burnt out and...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Definitions.

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One of the things I've noticed in the world today is how definitions--that which should bring clarity--have become increasingly un-clear...
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Hierarchy.

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About 15 years ago, before I had spent more than a couple of hours online, I got a call from a digital agency for a job as a copywriter. I w...
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