Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Manhattan Melody.

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I was up early this morning. Rosy-fingered dawn was gripping the eastern horizon. A sky like Homer saw, or Gilgamesh, or Don Quixote. Th...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Holiday grocery shopping with Uncle Slappy.

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Uncle Slappy and Aunt Sylvie arrived on the 6:50AM flight from Boca, landing at LaGuardia airport at just before 10AM. I was there to pick t...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Everyone needs money.

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There's this asinine notion in our business, you see it in full-flower over in the comments section of Agency Spy, that somehow creati...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

An imbroglio.

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A friend writes: "For most of the last month I’ve been getting in around 7 and leaving between 10PM and 4AM. During that time, I...

New logos and old.

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The Red Wheelbarrow -- William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water besi...

Rectangles.

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By the time I got my first agency job in 1984, I had already worked two quasi-advertising jobs. The first was when I was in school and was...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

The tyranny of short.

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If you're a copywriter--any kind of writer, I assume, though I am only a copywriter--you hear about 10 or a dozen times an hour that you...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

A tough stretch in Saltillo.

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As a rule it doesn’t rain much in Saltillo, Mexico in the summer. But 40 years ago, as I manned third-base for the Saraperos de Saltillo in...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Washing windows.

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It was another one of those weekends. Another one of those mornings. I was in with the window-washers. Long before the guy who makes ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Cool. Back when.

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The Times ran an article yesterday called "When Airlines Looked Cool and Showed It." You can read it here.  And belo w, a few of t...