Thursday, December 15, 2022

Immensity.

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As usual, I have my schnozz stuck in another book.  I read serially. No, not just when I'm eating Cheerios.  I mean when I finish one bo...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Lost in Advertising.

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I'm a firm believer in something much of the world seems not to believe in.  I'm writing this in the three or four minutes before I ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

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I don't very often read opinion pieces in The Wall Street Journal. Many of their writers--Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan among them--are so ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Three Years Axed.

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It's been almost three years since the head of HR at Ogilvy called me on my cellphone at 4:30 on a Tuesday afternoon and asked me to com...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Requiem for a Species.

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Of all the ding-dong devastating lines William Faulkner ever wrote, perhaps the most telling and knelling is this one: The past is never dea...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

An Old Train Chugs On.

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When I was a little boy, the development my parents ascended to the middle-class in was plopped down with forty other houses in garish color...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Let's Not Learn.

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For about the last ten days or so, my social feeds have been abuzz about the "writing" ability of some new and breakthrough AI. Pe...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Bounce.

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I'm turning 65 in two days.  Every night when I'm done reading, I take an inventory of my joints. I check-in with each of them. They...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Allen Kay, 1945-2022.

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I opened "The New York Times" on Saturday morning, early, and Allen Kay's obituary popped out to me.  Through the magic of Li...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Not Net.

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There was something in Adweek earlier this week that was actually reporting. Usually the trade press prints nothing but press-releases. But ...