Tuesday, July 16, 2024

AI YI YI.

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I've often written in this space that I don't read books on marketing or advertising or whatever it is we're currently calling t...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Be Kind. And Mean.

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It seems to me about 37 times a day someone on some social platform, or wearing a t-shirt with a message on it, tries to show how profound t...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Used.

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That ugly rectangle with the hideous photograph of an ancient man wearing ancient clothing sitting in an ancient chair is what us old-timers...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Spinning.

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The other day in this space, I wrote a smidgen about Long History. That is, looking at the world not just with a view of the last two, five,...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Kerplunk.

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Of all the banalities I've heard during my 66.7 years, the most banal of all might be the one that was repeated roughly every 12 seconds...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

The Long and Winding Rude.

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One of the great privileges of being as old as the reptiles, and working for yourself, not directly for a corporate behemoth, is that you ha...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Lights Out.

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Way back about 200 years ago I had my first job after graduate school writing advertising copy for the Montgomery Ward catalog. It was a cra...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Let Freedom Wring.

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For my readers outside of the United States, Ad Aged will be taking July 4th and July 5th off. These are the days in amerika where we procla...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Mainstreaming Lies.

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Maybe it was always this way.  Maybe I just notice it more now. Maybe it's that there are no more watching dogs, whistle-blowers, truth-...