Monday, February 28, 2011

Frank Buckles and Raymond Bernard.

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Frank Buckles, the oldest living World War I American soldier died yesterday at the age of 110 in his home in Charles Town, W. Va. You can r...
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The Art of Persuasion.

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The Weekend Wall Street Journal, that intelligent but cheerily fascist newspaper, had an interesting article about propaganda in the 20th Ce...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

1975.

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After I got out of high school there was nothing I wanted to do less than start college right away. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in le...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

IQ. Increasing and decreasing.

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One of the things we in advertising are meant to be adept in is multitasking. Our holding-company-dictated lives have divvied up our time-sh...
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Hipster Haiku.

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Through the summer heat He had on his woolen hat. In cold rain, hatless.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Anyone can't do it.

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It used to be if you wanted to shoot a movie or print a poster or, even, take a picture, you used to have to know a lot of stuff. If you wer...

Progress.

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The penny at the bottom of the urinal on the 3rd Floor is gone.
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Approval stamps.

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A couple days ago I wrote a post about an Approval Stamp I had bought from JWT/Atlanta who auctioned it off. I have to say, the stamp is a f...
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Miracle Blight.

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There's a new blight on our culture perpetrated by Kraft's Miracle Whip and the fine folks at McGarry-Bowen. The commercial, which i...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

My start in advertising.

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When I was about four-years-old I was all straight blonde hair and big blue eyes. I was the all-American white boy; I was cute as a bug'...
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