Wednesday, September 3, 2014

On the bus. A love story.

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I am on the bus right now and there’s an old man with long white hair who’s reading a story by G.K. Chesterton. His wife, who looks very...
Monday, September 1, 2014

We return to the Cape.

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We decided about three weeks ago, or maybe it was two, to spend Labor Day on Cape Cod. When you have a grown family--especially, a modern,...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Data? I hardly know her.

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The other night while listening to a financial news program on National Public Radio, I heard some blithering CEO of an online clothing comp...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

For sale.

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A friend of mine just sent me an article from "The Denver Post" about Bud Light's upcoming effort to takeover the town of Cres...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Another observation on freelance.

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One of the weirdly wonderful things about one of the places I'm putting some freelance hours into is how wonderfully archaic it is. I ...

Pressures.

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When I’m really busy as I am right now, every hour, whether I’m awake or asleep, is time to work. This is something the terrorists o...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

War.

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When I was a kid, Vietnam was our next-door neighbor. Nearly every night my mother would listen to WQXR, "the radio station of 'T...

Definition.

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Years ago when I started in the business, and even before, successful agencies were defined by not just the work they created but by the br...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Uncle Slappy on gravity.

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Uncle Slappy called, as he so often does, just as I was in the arrears of waking up this morning. More often than not, Uncle Slappy wakes up...

Integrity.

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Twice late last week, echoing off of various agency walls, I heard the word integrity. I'll admit the word stops me in my tracks like ...