Monday, September 19, 2022

Co-Co a-Go-Go.

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I've been in the advertising business 64 and 3/4 years or 42 years, depending on how you tally things. Because my father was in the busi...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Un-Chain Store My Heart.

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I just went to the drugstore twice. There and back twice. I went to get a ton of incidentals for my Ted Talk in Lisbon. Then I had to go bac...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

A Pour Problem.

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My wife, Laura, who's also a freelancer and I were talking. That alone could be the start of a blogpost. I mean, after 38-years of marri...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Now, Children.

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I think very seriously about laughter. I think very seriously about play.  I think very often about an ad I read maybe 40 years ago by a ver...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

The Power of Positive Dumbness.

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Many years ago, decades actually, I shot a direct response commercial for IBM.  This was so long ago, giant companies still believed they ac...
Monday, September 12, 2022

When the Hurly Burly's Done.

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I read something not long ago from the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman. Great historians do more than retell the events ...
Friday, September 9, 2022

The Quotable.

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Much of what I see on social media  seems to consist of platitudes, obviousisms or banalities.  To be fair, social media for me is really on...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

My Daughter Meets Ernest.

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When my older daughter was about four or five she came to me with a huge four-or five-year-old's problem. It was summer and we were send...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

One Thousand and One Nights.

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One thousand and one days ago, I closed all three rings on my Apple watch.  Since then I've closed all three rings one-thousand days in ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Who's A-Freud?

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I was talking to a friend not long ago from the business. I'll call him, like Kafka might have, K, so as to conceal his identity.  Like ...