Friday, October 5, 2012

A bit on my father.

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My father, absent and unavailable as he was taught me things. He taught me that if you want to learn to write you have to read. Accordingl...
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Annoyed.

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One of the tragedies of modern life--and it was ever thus--is that no one has any understanding of the past. No one seems to understand th...
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BS.

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I'm out west in Telluride, Colorado right now shooting celebrity talent in the mountains. Of course prior to tomorrow's shoot we...
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Morning thoughts from Rollo May.

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You don't often get insights from Rollo May, the famous psychiatrist, on advertising blogs. But Ad Aged is a different sort of animal. ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Writers.

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As I wrote about last week, I was named a "Creative Allstar" by a magazine I've never heard of. And last night there was a soi...
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The Spout of the Devil.

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Last night I lost another battle with sleeplessness, so I collared Whiskey, my six-month-old golden retriever and set out to do a walk I had...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Today. And every day.

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Producer: "I messed up. I forgot about central time." Creative: "So our three o'clock is at four." Producer: ...

The service economy.

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One of the seminal disconnects of our era is that we live in a service economy and service, nine times out of 10, sucks. It's not unus...
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Ineffectual.

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The last few days I have felt like shit. No surprise there. I'm treated like shit. Treated like a line item on a budget. With more w...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Nontent.

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Bob Hoffman, the AdContrarian, has once again an important post. It's on marketing's latest "shibboleth," content. In it...
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