Thursday, June 17, 2021

Transforming business transformation.

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Today, you can't hardly spit without hearing something about business transformation, or transforming business models, or upsetting the ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Dismal science meet dismal industry.

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Someone wrote a comment on one of my posts the other day. Taking me to task, somewhat, for the beating I mete out to Ogilvy in particular an...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Flight of the Bumblebaum.

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Like most people in the advertising business, I almost always had a freelance job on the side. Basically, if you're working full-time, e...
Monday, June 14, 2021

2,734,233 Titantium Pencils.

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I got a note from a friend on Friday afternoon. It was a day, up here on the Gingham Coast, with sublime San Francisco weather. 65-degrees w...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Fish on Friday.

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Ah, Friends, it is Friday, is it not?  Time to sit back, hearken back and celebrate those days when dead agencies were still alive, where lo...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Trade secrets.

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About eight years ago when I joined Ogilvy for the second time, my therapist of nearly 40 years, Owen, scowled at me. If you've never be...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Word-flation. (AKA permission to suck granted.)

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Back before I was an advertising copywriter I was a budding scholar of English literature and American history. Those are my true loves--sur...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Classic ads, 2021-style

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  Thanks to Dave Dye, progenitor of the Stuff from the Loft blog (davedye.com) for his help in making the shitty parodies above and below lo...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Coffee with a rising star.

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As I do so often, as I am blessed to do so often, I had a Zooffee™, a Zoom + Coffee, with a rising star in the industry. This particular you...
Friday, June 4, 2021

A message from our Flounder.

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