Monday, November 16, 2015

A new week begins.

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Last week was a bad one. Too awful and internecine for details. Let's just put it this way: not counting vacations, I've had a c...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Friday's ontological ramble.

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The great director Preston Sturges, whom no one today has heard of, wrote and directed a pretty great movie in 1948 called "Unfaithfull...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

13 Yiddish Curses for the Modern Ad Agency. (A repost.)

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Yiddish is nearly a dead language. But when it comes to curses, it remains a vibrant one. I was the butt end of a lot of these when I was g...

Oy vey.

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Having a bit of a crisis at work. So I won't be writing a real live post today. Just another of my increasingly frequent apologies. ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

A night along the river.

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It was drizzling last night, and cool, a Central Casting mid-November day if ever there was one, with a mild Nor’easter doing its damnede...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

A night at the Times.

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Last night I left early and went to something called a "Times Talk," over at "The New York Times" building on 620 Eigh...

Signs of New York.

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Monday, November 9, 2015

5 Minutes with Our CCO.

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AD AGED:   So you’re a CCO, a Chief Creative Officer? CCO:   No. That’s what CCO used to stand for. The Agency model is dramatically di...

Football and awards.

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The Giants were playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It was the fourth quarter and it was a close game. I’m not much of a football fan, so...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Old meets young in the Mexican League.

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Toward the end of my lone season playing for the Saraperos de Saltillo in the Mexican Baseball League, an old man joined the club, meeting ...