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Observations about life, cultural trends and marketing, not necessarily in that order.
2014-08-27 20:12
A large retailer recently faced controversy when it included among its online catalog what was supposed to be a motivational poster featuring German wording over a gate that translates to "W… Read More
2014-08-20 00:11
The world is full of graphic examples of how religious extremism foments violence and unrest, but one of the most puzzling is the Westboro Baptist Church.The Topeka, Kansas congregation, if… Read More
2014-08-15 17:10
With the aging of the baby boomer population, I suppose it was inevitable. But it wasn't until someone actually brought the product to my attention that I learned there was enough of a publi… Read More
2014-08-13 21:13
The death, yesterday, of the legendary actress Lauren Bacall was overshadowed by Robin Williams' suicide and the national dialog it triggered about depression and the innate, embedded sadnes… Read More
2014-08-08 22:15
It's a foregone conclusion that actors have massive egos. And if you've been famous for more than five decades, like Barbra Streisand, it's been a long time indeed since someone tried to ste… Read More
2014-08-04 20:35
There's no question that the story of King Kong is enduring. That's why it's been remade twice since the 1933 original (including the 1976 version that has Kong tumbling off the World Trade… Read More
2014-08-04 18:40
If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's to never second-guess one's creative instincts. About a six weeks ago, I was reviewing a campaign one of my copywriters had written for a su… Read More
2014-08-01 19:54
In just the last 20 or so years, we've become so technology-dependent that it's hard to imagine life without WiFi hot spots, GPS and smartphones that shape and inform our every action and in… Read More
2014-07-30 18:25
Several years ago I described how the Charmin toilet tissue brand had veered from its decades-long track of discreet, jovial advertising to feature a marketing campaign that essentially answ… Read More
2014-07-29 21:52
It's been almost exactly two years since I abandoned this blog. At the time, I felt I was somehow running out of subjects, or more likely I was experiencing a feeling of being overwhelmed by… Read More
2012-07-11 23:28
I just don't get Cindy Sherman.For over 30 years, this woman has been producing conceptual photographs that feature herself elaborately costumed and made up to simulate what seem to be femal… Read More
2012-07-11 23:28
I just don't get Cindy Sherman.For over 30 years, this woman has been producing conceptual photographs that feature herself elaborately costumed and made up to simulate what seem to be femal… Read More
2012-07-09 15:37
Now that my civic duty has ended, I can finally make some observations about the experience. Television has permanently affected how judges behave. They all try to be funny, or dramatic, or… Read More
2012-06-29 04:07
I've spent the last week on jury duty, deep in the dusty bowels of San Francisco Superior Court. Since I'm not at liberty to discuss the details of this ongoing criminal case, let me just sa… Read More
2012-03-19 18:58
Occasionally I'll stumble across a detail about some celebrity that is so odd it overtakes just about everything else I think I know about that person. Case in point: Dick Clark's Flint… Read More
2012-02-13 19:08
Can a TV series about a relentless plague of the undead really show us what it means to be alive?AMC's The Walking Dead, which resumed last night after a gripping mid-sea… Read More
2012-02-12 23:04
It's amazing how often this scenario plays itself out: we watch a self-destructive celebrity like Amy Winehouse stumble around Camden Town for years in her scuffed ballet flats and then expr… Read More
2012-02-02 23:20
Many years ago there was a highly improbable television sitcom called Bosom Buddies. The premise was that two best friends vie for the same job at an advertising agency and decide, because w… Read More
2012-02-02 01:47
Since I've completely given up on the San Francisco Chronicle, which has pared itself down like a late-season Biggest Loser contestant to an x-ray of its former self, on weekends I usually p… Read More
2011-12-30 16:36
People have often suggested I try out for Jeopardy! but believe me, I'm not that smart. I basically know a little about everything and nothing, really, about anything. In fact, one of my big… Read More
2011-12-30 05:53
When I set out for a brief walk on that unseasonably warm Thursday afternoon just before Christmas, I had no idea I was about to discover a disturbing new trend in yard decorations.I strolle… Read More
2011-12-25 02:28
First, I can't be the only one who hears -- more than once! -- "Orgy Wonderland" being sung by the elves in this Samsung Galaxy commercial, instead of "4G." Is it just an aural trick, or a d… Read More
2011-12-17 21:40
If I have to live in a world where every third person on the freeway is making love to his cell phone and Kardashians tweet, do I still have to also receive new phone books every year?It's a… Read More
2011-11-26 06:57
The suspension of disbelief is integral to many entertaining film classics. To fully enjoy them, you have to relinquish your logical mind and accept that a tornado can transport a farmhouse… Read More
2011-11-10 19:12
There's a chilling scene in the 2008 film Doubt in which Meryl Streep's terrifying Sister Alonysius, who may or may not have evidence of the parish priest's pedastery, confronts the mot… Read More

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