Friday, January 3, 2014

Mayor Bloomberg and advertising.

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New York inaugurated a new mayor on Wednesday, its first new mayor in a dozen years. The out-going mayor was the bland, technocratic billi...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Kale.

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There's an article in today's "New York Times" about kale. That in and of itself is not unusual. Over the past year--s...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

New Year's with Fellini.

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My wife and I eschewed the parties we were invited to. We decided to celebrate New Year's alone, just the two of us. Three, if you count...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A New Year's Eve call from Uncle Slappy.

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Uncle Slappy called as I knew he would, it being New Year's Eve. They aren't given to parties, Uncle Slappy and Aunt Sylvie and ther...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Happy New Fear.

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That title was suggested by my good friend Tore Claesson, a brilliant art director and my ex-partner. Tore has traveled the world art direct...

A Tempus Fugit Ghost Story.

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"When the Tempus Fugit opened up," the bartender said to me by way of introduction, "When the Tempus Fugit opened up, all the...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Words without meaning.

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Timothy Egan, who writes op-eds for the digital edition of "The New York Times," has won the writer's "Daily Double....
Saturday, December 28, 2013

"He never made a great catch."

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There was a great obituary of a good ballplayer in today's "New York Times." The ballplayer was Paul Blair, a fixture in cente...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Christmas in the Tempus Fugit.

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Last night was unusually festive in the Tempus Fugit, a former speakeasy I stumbled upon some years ago that has maintained its speakeasily ...

The Fear Industry.

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Paul Krugman has an important op-ed in today's "New York Times." Krugman is an avowed liberal, a Nobel-prize-winning economist...