Monday, October 19, 2020

Crying in baseball

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I've gotten some rebuke of late.  That's not unusual. When you're out there, when you speak your mind, when you're voluble a...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Well, that sucked.

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I am a disciplined sonofabitch. Every day for the past 50 years or so, I've sat down at one sort of keyboard or another and tried to wri...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Trust. Ha ha.

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One of the many things that I blather on about day after day, week after week, decade after decade is B3: Brands Behaving Badly. To evaluate...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Advertising advice from an unknown city.

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As a life-long denizen (btw, a denizen is not a Buddhist oral surgeon) of Fun City, I have been trained by my almost 63-years in that benigh...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Be a mensch.

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I've been doing a lot of teaching of late, predominately because I have a hard time saying "no" to people who pursue me. In Au...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Logging In.

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My wife, in her infinite wifedom, decided to order a cord of firewood.  We are city people hijacked by the Trumprona-virus to the littoral o...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Old and Olfactory.

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Thursday, October 8, 2020

I've noticed 21 things.

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There are a lot of things that are true of everyone in advertising --and in life--that virtually no one likes to admit. I've been notici...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Tricks of the trade.

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Since I started teaching advertising classes again over the summer after a short hiatus of 27 years, the question I get asked more than any ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

An offer the Holding Companies will all refuse. (A study in Myopia.)

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One day, when I was still at Ogilvy I took a walk around the creative floor. The footprint was big, from 46th to 47, and halfway from 11th A...