Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle had a full page ad for Bloomingdale’s promoting their “Fun & Festive” gifts for $100 or under. So I perused it and noticed what looked like a broken vase in the lower left corner. ??? Was that a joke? Did someone muck up the photoshoot? So… more »
Need for Speed: Notable Quotable from Pixar’s “Maverick Director”
December 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Steve Pond’s column for The Wrap (Pixar’s Maverick Director: How I’d Tweak Our Formula for Success) had an awesome notable quotable: “…I came out of TV animation, where you work on the kind of schedule where you don’t have time to doodle. It was a really good testing ground, because… more »
Milk Industry: Got Crisis?
December 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The headline shouted, “The U.S. Milk Business Is in Crisis’ .” The Wall Street Journal ran a story on the front of the Marketplace section about how the decline in milk consumption has got dairy farmers, milk processors and grocery chains concerned. Really? I say welcome to the new normal…. more »
New Lincoln Motor Company Campaign: Impressive Change of Pace
December 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
While perusing The Wall Street Journal I came upon a full page ad that posed an interesting question: Does the world need another luxury car? 2.5 inches below it, in a smaller font, appear the words “Not really.” They got me. I had to stop and read. The first thing… more »
Restoring 2CVs & Bliss…
December 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the Sunday New York Times (NYT) , I read an interesting story about the Citroën 2CV. Definitely unusual looking, it has been called the Volkswagen Beetle for France in the sense that it provided inexpensive transportation for tough economic times. It’s name, deux chevaux, loosely translated means “two tax… more »
