Thursday, October 22, 2015

Five minutes with our CGHDO.

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Ad Aged:          CGHDO? I don’t recognize that acronym. Tell me what does it stand for? CGHDO:           CGHDO? Didn’t I answer that q...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Lies.

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There's a Chrysler commercial running now that annoys the shit out of me. It annoys the shit out of me even though Wieden and Kennedy ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Five minutes with our CCAMO.

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Ad Aged:  So you're a CCAMO. That's a title I'm unfamiliar with. Tell me what it stands for, please. CCAMO:  CCAMO. I'm t...
Monday, October 19, 2015

This should be red.

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For at least a decade now, advertising pundits and new-media landscapers have been declaring that print is dead. And maybe it is. I seld...
Friday, October 16, 2015

The Cubs. The Mets.

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Good bye Leo.... Yesterday I got a call from my financial advisor, a mensch from the Windy City. He called me because some f...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Payday in the Mexican Baseball League.

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For many people, today is payday.  I suppose no matter how old you get, or how much money you wind up making, there’s something nice ab...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Crisis management.

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For about the past 96-hours I've been dealing with an assignment that's not been making the progress it should be making. That...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Reflections on baseball and advertising.

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For about my entire lifetime, people have been declaring the sport of baseball dead. It's declined of course since its Babe-Ruthian heyd...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Just.

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About 30 years ago I had a writing mentor in the business called Ed Butler. Ed had plied his trade at Doyle Dane--and done some notable VW a...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

More baseball memories.

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The American baseball playoffs started last night in something called the "wild card" game--the teams in the fourth and fifth posi...