Saturday, August 13, 2016

Before Air Conditioning. (A guest-post from Arthur Miller).

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From "The New Yorker," June 22, 1998. One of the finest things I have ever read by one of my many writing heroes. I first r...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Sign of the times.

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NSFW.

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Work has its pressures. But lately, I mean for the past two years or so, there have been more than usual. There's really no r...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Nobody asked me, but.... (Olympic edition)

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Nobody asked me, but…is a tribute to the great New York sportswriter, Jimmy Cannon. When he had no topic to write about, he'd write one ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

An olde tyme cab ride.

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Last night I had one of those cab rides home that New York used to be legendary for. Since Uber and Via and Lyft and Gett and Juno and Kur...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

TV broke the bargain.

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When I grew up (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) television as a medium offered consumers a square deal. You paid for what you watched ...
Monday, August 8, 2016

El Pulpo, Part II.

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(Part I.) - El Pulpo’s team was up first. It was a team of old-timers, of guys who might have played with El Pulpo when he blaz...
Friday, August 5, 2016

A summer Friday.

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With just three weeks to go until Labor Day, I am today taking my first summer Friday. And it appears, at least for now, that I have lucked ...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

It can happen here.

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There's a disturbing video on "The New York Times" site that I think everyone should watch. More, we should think about what...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

I approved this message.

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Looking back on my 36 years in the business (I started in 1980, writing catalog copy for Montgomery Ward) one of the biggest and most-pernic...