Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Feathers and Ruffles.

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Back in my earliest days in the business, making an ad wasn't that different from how it was done during the Napoleonic Era.  On my form...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Deep Self-Appreciation.

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The world of working for yourself is a more challenging world than working for a company. No matter if that company is large or small. At le...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Of Rats and Gods.

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There's a famous quote by a Yale professor, a man who was once called America's most notable architecture critic, Vincent Scully. No...
Friday, October 14, 2022

The Books of George.

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Except for Jeopardy, I don't watch TV at all, not even sports. Up here on the Gingham Coast of Connecticut, I rarely meet people for dri...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

The First Time I Was Called 'Grandpa.'

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The first time I was called Grandpa I was the creative head of a shitty 200-person agency down on Spring Street in New York. Either the worl...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Copy That.

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I got a call late last week from a Fortune 50 company.  Not the kind of call a one-person agency usually gets. No matter how large it is. Th...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Misty Water-Colored Memories of the Way We Were.

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I tripped over a quotation the other morning by the non-Nobel-Prize-winner Czech writer, Milan Kundera. The sentence is so important that yo...
Monday, October 10, 2022

An Essay (and Assay) of Technology.

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Just about every day there seem to be ten articles or seven about the self-driving-car future. Most of these articles involve some sort of t...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Friday Notes from a Lugubrious Fucker.

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I finished a book on Wednesday that I can hardly recommend with more enthusiasm.  I forget where I read it, but once I read that most people...