By Mark | October 14, 2018
Remember how, a few days ago, we were reminiscing about the peep shows and glory holes of the old Michigan Avenue Bookstore, and how upset I was that I couldn’t find any photographic evidence of its existence online? Well, all of my bitching and complaining apparently paid off. I just received the following photograph (circa […]
By Mark | October 8, 2018
Back when I used to have the radio show, I would occasionally get messages from a listener in Colorado. For the purposes of this post, we’ll call him Jeff… Well, Jeff, in one of our conversations, let it be known that he’d not only spent a good part of the ‘70s in Ypsilanti, but that […]
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By Mark | September 23, 2018
A week or so ago, I went to the Michigan Theater to hear a lecture by Ken Segall, a former creative director at Steve’s Jobs’ go-to ad agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day. Segall, who worked with Jobs for over a dozen years, as the maverick tech entrepreneur moved between NeXT and Apple, is credited as having both authored […]
Also posted in Marketing, Uncategorized | Tagged advertising, advertising campaign, Apple, authenticity, Cahoots, IBM, Isaac Newton, Ken Segall, logos, NeXT, Pablo Picasso, Rob Janoff, Ronald Wayne, simplicity, Steve Jobs, Think different, Trove |
By Mark | September 5, 2018
Generally speaking, I have have very little sympathy for those who have chosen to work for Donald Trump. And I certainly don’t think of them as heroes, which, based on things I’ve read in the past, is how many of them apparently see themselves. They argue that, by remaining in the administration, they’re able to […]
Also posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged betrayal, Bob Woodward, Dina Powell, Donald Trump, Gary Cohn, ghosts, gutless, LBJ, murder, Omarosa Manigault Newman, op-ed, Oval Office, paranoia, resistance, Rex Tillerson, Shakespearean, traitors |
By Mark | August 19, 2018
I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]
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