more on Swiffer marketers
May I, just this once, out loud, say, to product marketing managers everywhere, particularly those responsible for marketing the Swiffer, in words that paraphrase David Milch, by way of Brad Dourif as Doc Cochran: What earthly use is my protracted suffering to you? Why did you feel the need to concoct the ponderous Five Signs [...]
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note to michael budman
If you didn’t have a stylist you should probably still tell people you did.
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note to michael budman’s stylist
I just saw your work in the new indigo community ad, and two things occurred to me almost immediately: 1) oh yeah he’s the roots guy; and b) wow if you wear too much roots stuff all at once you risk looking like a real knob. By comparison, Dan Aykroyd comes across as avuncular as [...]
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hello Dalai
This week in national news, a remarkably decent Steven Harper meets officially with the Dalai Lama. China stamps feet, threatens sanctions, leaving hungry Canadian children wondering where their next meal of lead-based paint will come from. In related news, the Canadian government plans to respond to China’s well-documented record of human rights abuses by sending [...]
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