Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The 3 D's.

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I am about to use a word I've never used before. Narrative. There, I've typed it. I don't use words like narrative because...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The calm after the storm.

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Most people when they think of Manhattan don't think of it as a place that had at any time a natural topography. We think of Manhattan a...

A lesson from my butcher.

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Diagonally across the street from my apartment house sits a butcher's shop, Ottomanelli's, that has occupied their corner since 1900...
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The storm.

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Last night amid the latest storm of the century, was no time for a long, meandering walk through the city. The winds were fierce, others who...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Storm warnings.

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This season's "storm of the Century" is bearing down on New York City and though as of this writing we've had nothing but ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

A journey back to 1964.

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I spent two weeks in Chicago over the last 48-hours, emptying my mother's apartment of her accumulation of 60 or 70 years of junk. It...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Uncle Slappy and Benny the Bum.

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Uncle Slappy called. Before I even returned his "Boychick," he was running at full throttle into a story. It was late and I was ...
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Org. Charts.

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Yesterday, replete with emoticons :-) I got an email forwarding to me my client's marketing "org charts." It was suggested I f...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Barack Obama and Rosser Reeves.

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I am seldom startled by the stupidity of people who are charged with marketing a product, service or idea. In fact for about two decades now...
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Baseball and marketing.

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Years ago, when I was in the full and strapping bloom of youth, I was a mediocre baseball player on a skein of mediocre baseball teams. Ther...
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