Wednesday, July 25, 2018

A brief case for sanity.

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When I was a kid my father, like most of the fathers in the neighborhood in which I was raised, went to work every day carrying a leather a...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Human progress. Not a one-way process.

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Late last week I read a really good opinion piece in "The New York Times" by a guy called Michael Goldfarb. It was about a couple ...
Monday, July 23, 2018

A night five years ago.

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Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the car crash that nearly ended my life. I was sick (it would later turn out that I had pneumonia) ...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Uncle Slappy's Extra-Cynical Slap-of-the-Week.

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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Seeing double.

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When I think about the business today, the hard, mucky slog of getting a body of work through the agency, through ten or twenty rounds of ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Hey, Marc Pritchard, call my friend Marsha.

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Dear Mr. Pritchard, I read an article about you yesterday decrying the lack of equality as it appears in advertising and as it is evide...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

A good/bad day down in the Mexican League.

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Orestes “Tito” Puente, who was my teammate so many long summers ago when I played my single season of professional baseball for the Sera...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Nobody asked me but....Post Bastille Day Edition.

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Nobody asked me but...is my period homage to the great New York sportswriter Jimmy Cannon. He'd write one of these when he could find no...