An unpolitical unsolicited call rant for the political season: I have no problem hanging up on unsolicited calls. If you’re my friend or colleague whose caller ID I won’t recognize, better let me know I know you in the first two words from your lips or I will disconnect you in mid-sentence. Apologies for […]
Binge-watcher’s anonymous, Take 1
So, what are you binge-watching and why? My guilty pleasure is this series. Despite the facts that: The script calls for some character to USE. DOGTRAINER. VOICE! about once every three minutes to move the plot along. A pro gun-control, immigration-reform Republican president has a gay chief of staff and a black mistress. She’s the […]
Crimes of Identity
I’m imagining how much worse life would have been for my grandparents and mother’s people in the first half of 20th century, if Donald Trump had been around insisting that the Mafia be called Organized Italian Crime and calling for the resignation of a president who wouldn’t use the word “Italian” as the adjective. It […]
Throwback Thursday–wrestling nicotine and that other demon
This Throwback Thursday marks a milestone I’d rather keep behind me, but I have to own it. This picture is from July 2, 2014, the last day I used any tobacco product. But nicotine–that was another story, because once I gave up the cigars and all other tobacco products, I was chawing 4 tabs of […]
c.010101 The Art of Radical Brand Transformation
It’s Friday afternoon, September 25th, 2015 and the insistent buzz of helicopters overhead in Center City Philadelphia has become so constant that it almost fades into the background. Almost. I’ve walked the city, posting photographs of the lockdown preparations. The combination of cleared, almost deserted streets and military barricades lends the city an East Berlinish […]
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