Thursday, December 19, 2024

Everyman, I Will Go With Thee.

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I take a lot of shit for a lot of people for not watching anything on TV. Not the perennially inconsistent Knicks. (Their only consistency i...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Leaps, Eeps.

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If the world were a better place, instead of reading this we could go to a ballgame together, or a bar like the Tempus Fugit, or even a coff...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Putting the Fun in Pundit.

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It wasn't all that long ago--a decade and a half, really, that I was toiling at the self-proclaimed "digital agency of the decade....
Monday, December 16, 2024

Always Write.

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I read something long ago and faraway, back when words mattered, our attention spans were longer than that of a goldfish, the world was some...
Friday, December 13, 2024

I'm Just a Bill.

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There are as many ways to define a brand as there is corruption in politics. If you ask ten advertising people (hurry, there are only about ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

One of This Year's Ten Best Posts.

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I was just in my early 20s and I had landed a job in the in-house advertising agency of Bloomingdale's. Except for a few frustrating yea...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Murder. Mergers. Me.

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Last week, on the same day the CEO of a major Healthcare Denier was murdered (they call them  providers, but perhaps denier is more accurate...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Stagvertising.

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editor's note: This post was written almost three weeks ago. Before the Omnicom/IPG subsumation, which gives us an entity that has over ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

The Black Bird. And Holding Company Mergers.

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Of course I have an axe to grind. Anyone who says they don't is either lying or they've bought a chain-saw. (See above for a dramati...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Laura (Oh!) Tannenbaum.

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Laura Tannenbaum , my wife of almost 41 years, is our final participant in Guest Post week.  She's been a freelancer in the healthcare s...