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Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketing. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

I love the smell of Play-Doh in the morning

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Few smells are as evocative of my childhood as the unmistakable smell of Play-Doh. In the latter stages of the 1950s Play-Doh became availab...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

The Gambler

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From the long list of possible vices, gambling was never going to be my vice of choice.  Oh, I'm still capable of yelling 'wanna bet...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Johnny we hardly knew ya!

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There's a pub not far from where I live called the 21st Amendment, afer the amendment that provided for the repeal of prohibition. It...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Not quite Gwyneth Paltrow nutty, but still...

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I had heard of Sydney Sweeney, of course. But I really had no idea who she is. Blonde? Young? Actress? Hotty?  All of the above, I guess.* A...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

No, Madam

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It's probably a pretty good rule of corporate thumb to approach HR surveys with more than a bit of wariness and skepticism. Just how ano...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

Ready for your closeup, Mr. Parisi?

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The standards are different from one to the other, but if you want to run officially in one of the major marathons - Berlin, Boston, Chicago...
Thursday, May 02, 2024

Stanley Cups Overfloweth. (Not THAT Stanley Cup!)

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As usual with consumer fads, I've missed the boat - or the cup - with the Stanley Tumbler, the resuable water bottle that is apparently ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Swagbaggery 2024

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Having managed - quite amazingly - to see all ten of the films nominated for Best Picture this year, I had more of a vested interest in this...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

There's mountains, and then there's molehills

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I like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as much as the next guy. After all, it combines two of my favorite food items: peanut butter and choc...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Only connect!

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Other than Twitter/X, where I mosey around, occasionally commenting but rarely tweeting, I'm not really part of any online "communi...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Did we really need something else to worry about??? (Part Two.)

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Just yesterday I was doing my not-so-friendly-skies fretting about the lack of air traffic controllers. Today, it's windows - or doors, ...
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Friday, December 15, 2023

Meatheads!

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Don't get me wrong. I eat beef. But most of the beef I eat is consumed outside of the home.  I'll order the hamburger. And I'll ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Take my ad, please! (Oh you kids!)

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My career was in marketing, and during my time in marketing, I wrote plenty of advertising copy. The products I was marketing were dreary, b...