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George Tannenbaum on the future of advertising, the decline of the English Language and other frivolities. 100% jargon free. A Business Insider "Most Influential" blog.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Cape.

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When I was young, in my late teens, my friends and I would get summer jobs to pay for our expenses in college. Summer was 13 weeks long and ...

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

The tyranny of the rational mind.

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I am in the midst of a pro-bono project for The School at Columbia University, a middle school that operates under the auspices of Columbia ...

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Friday, May 27, 2011

America, 2011.

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I'm in Chicago and they asked to pat down my hair.

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Dick Wimmer, 1936-2011.

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There's was an obituary in "The New York Times" on Tuesday that's worth considering. It told the story of a writer called ...

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

How it used to be.

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While I'm on the subject of my early days in the business, I thought I'd trip down memory lane and tell you what it was like in 1980...

Some thoughts on Advertising Schools.

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When I was a kid in the business I worked as a copywriter for Bloomingdale's. I literally wrote and produced maybe 15 ads a week. I was ...

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The quintessence of dust.

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One of the high points of English literature, perhaps the apotheosis of Western civilization occurs in Act II, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's ...

Monday, May 23, 2011