Friday, May 14, 2021

Strange fruit.

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Dear Ad Industry or Dear Dilletantes pretending to be in the Ad Industry, Let me start this by saying I hate Asian hate as much as anything....
Thursday, May 13, 2021

GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company. An update.

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Things at George Central Station have been crazy of late. In fact, I am writing this post at 3:23AM Thursday morning, having worked like a g...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Five questions that may make you a better writer.

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I read somewhere a long time ago that in the 100-meter sprint in the Olympics, the difference between winning gold and winning bronze comes ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Birds of prey.

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As a nascent suburbanite, I am seeing parts of the world and creatures in the world that I have never before seen.  I remember as a little b...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Thoughts from a working man.

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"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars."   --Jack Kerouac, "On the Road." I read ...
Friday, May 7, 2021

Modern agency phone tree.

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Hello, you have reached the voice-mail system at Why a Papercut and Plasticine. Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. Pa...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Headlines.

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I had written a bunch of ads for a client. Maybe 100. The best ads, most times, don't come from a brief. They come from a sense of who t...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Rumination with a (dim) view.

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Portrait of the Blogger, by Durer. For about the past 48-hours or so, I've been in a dour mood. Maybe even morose. Maybe lugubrious. May...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Nobody asked me but...

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Nobody Asked Me But is my periodic tribute to the great New York sportswriter, Jimmy Cannon. Who would write a column of miscellany when he ...
Monday, May 3, 2021

In love with concrete.

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I spent the weekend back in New York, home at last, from our small and somewhat ramshackle cottage on a cliff overlooking the sea in Old Say...