Monday, November 26, 2012

The busiest online shopping day of the year.

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"I went to the mall," Uncle Slappy began without even saying his customary "Hello, Schmendrick." "I went to the mal...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

A problem with my Time-Warner.

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Over the years we have all been folded, spindled and mutilated by various marketers. These marketers have set up oxymorons they call "C...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Jew.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Contrast in New York.

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Tonight is the night before Thanksgiving. And if you're a New Yorker, it's the night they blow up the balloons for the Macy's Da...
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Maybe I won't write.

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It's the Wednesday before the American holiday of Thanksgiving and after a long hard year of work I am taking my first day off in a long...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The joy of work.

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Work, so many months upon months, days upon days, hours on top of hours sucks. We have to deal with trivialities. Politics. Fractious person...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Conference calls.

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Since 97% of all agency business is, these days, conducted by conference call, agencies should "listen in" some time as to what c...
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Then and now.

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The phrase used to be: "If you can't do, teach."* Today it's: "If you can't do, call a meeting." -- *...

Writing, Philip Roth and us.

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Of all the great American writers of the second-half of the 20th Century, perhaps the most important (and prolific) is Philip Roth. Not only...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Duane Reade and advertising.

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For all my love of New York there are times when I fear it will push me over the edge into insanity or violence. Last night I experienced on...