Thursday, May 19, 2016

How to write good. (A re-post.)

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I have no time to write this morning, owing to the resumption of my usual Thursday therapy and a 9:30 meeting that I can't be late for....
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

New York morning.

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This morning, I got out of my car service at 53rd and Madison and decided to hoof it the remaining mile-and-a-half to work. That's bee...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Public Masturbation.

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As Woody Allen said many years ago, "Don't knock masturbation. At least it's sex with someone I love." That said, I thin...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Untying knots.

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What a glorious March day dawned today in late May in New York. The sky is bright and blue and little puffs of cumulus are wafting over the ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

A late start.

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I got a late start this morning--at least on the blog--for a couple of reasons. First, I had a 7:30 conference call. That seems like somet...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Sorry.

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Yesterday I was up at 3:30, preparatory to catch a 6AM flight from Newark airport to Austin, Texas. A bunch of people flew down a day earl...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

America, the Beer-tiful.

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Of all the boneheaded displays of tone-deafness I've ever seen or, heard, the most egregious might be the recent rebranding by the Be...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Some dark thoughts about Ad Tech.

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You can’t spit in the ad industry these days without hearing something about the inexorable rise of Ad Tech. Ad Tech, they’ll tell you,...

Returning to Saltillo.

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About three weeks later than last year, I got my official letter and agenda for the Juegos de Viejos weekend down in Saltillo, which is to c...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Raleigh.

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I'm taking the day off from work today, one of only a handful of days I've had since I lost my job in March, 2014, through a year of...