Thursday, January 18, 2024

DOA.

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I read somewhere, I believe in the New Yorker, some years ago, about a famously-aggrieved writer, who like many writers--or creative people ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

A Real Lion.

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If you're a certain age or younger, you probably grew up with Leo Lionni, even if you don't recognize his name. Outside of Dr. Seuss...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Fractals.

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We used to be about making good ads that sold our clients' wares. We used to be about simple, timeless human truths. Appealing to those ...
Monday, January 15, 2024

King. And Advertising. A Repost.

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  In the small portion of our universe that still cares about books and which, somehow, still prefers books to the pseudo-wisdom of social m...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Valuing Values.

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About 2,000 years ago when I worked for Ogilvy the first time, there was a line that floated around the place that I haven't been able t...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Contempt.

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About ten years ago I heard a quotation by the Yale University art critic, Vincent Scully (not the Dodgers' former announcer) that had a...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

The Ad Industry Explained by Bagels.

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For a pessimist, I remain optimistic. Optimistic about advertising. Or at least GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company. Because I have formulate...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Learning from the Dead.

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When Norman Lear died a little over a month ago, much of my generation mourned. Lear was the progenitor of the TV baby-boomers grew up on. F...