Friday, February 20, 2015

Busy.

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It's 7:00 and once again I am in an lonely-halled office. The only other sound's the whoosh of white noise. Or the occasional ja...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Awards and Cadillac.

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Cadillac, the once-vaunted automaker, seems to change agencies as often as John Boehner changes tanning salons. They're now at Publicis ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A warm night in Torreon, Mexico.

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We were losing, as we were so often that summer. This time we were down against the Vaqueros Laguna, the Laguna Cowboys of Torreon, Coahuila...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Brando on the M-15.

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I was sitting on a slow (redundant) downtown express bus this morning perseverating, I'll admit, about all the things I needed to do tod...

Way back in 1939.

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We talk, in our business today, about experiences. I wonder how many people have ever actually had one. Or, if like most things in our liv...
Friday, February 13, 2015

New York cab ride.

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As usual I had miles to go. Rushing to a meeting. And miscalculating how long it would take to get up and over. And over some more. ...

Women in the Tempus Fugit.

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Ah, Insomnia. Dame of the Night. Queen of Darkness. The Black Goddess of Sleeplessness. She dropped by my bedstead and knelt to kiss me ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

A Guest from the West.

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Rich Siegel writes a great, funny, insightful blog on advertising and life called Round Seventeen, visit it here. Often. We decided to...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

A poet.

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Last night, late, I "discovered" a great voice. A surpassing New York poet, Babs Gonzales. Gonzales was most famous for his hit ...

My friend, Joseph Mitchell.

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"The New Yorker," yes, the New Yorker, has a short piece in this week's issue by my favorite writer, the late Joseph Mitchell...