Monday, March 9, 2015

Whither goest Weinstock?

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(With spelling improved and grammar saluted by the Editor.) 3 July, 1902 I have been with Rebbe Weinstock and his Mrs. for over a m...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

Doyle meets a girl.

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(With mild corrections and loving touches applied by the editor.) June 14, 1902 I have, for two weeks, been working for Rebbe Weinstock ...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Doyle meets the Weinstocks.

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(With grammar slightly and spelling greatly improved by the editor.) 2 June, 1902 We are living just a few blocks from a family of Jews ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

From the back of Doyle's closet.

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When my wife and I moved into our current apartment almost twenty years ago, we had bought the place from a charming, old Irish couple, the...

The opera.

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That's James Levine in center, with the nimbus of hair. I went to the opera last night at the Met. Man-o-man, they can put on a sh...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

A rat's breakfast.

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It's snowing like a sonofabitch in New York today, the 27th or 44th "Snowpocalypse" of the season is upon us and roughly 90%...

Found copywriting, IV.

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A barber shop in Raleigh, North Carolina.

To the point.

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The hardest thing in the world is to create something creative, unique, memorable and motivating. It's hard. It's a crap shoot. You ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Nobody asked me but...

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...Does it seem to you there are more people recruiting Creatives than there are Creatives? ...I can't remember the last time I saw th...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

30 stars under 30.

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If you read magazines as I do, you realize that absent news coverage, there's not a lot of ingenuity in their editorial content. Just ...