Dazed and bemused
What Bicentennial mania was really like New City, 1996 [Note: I'm getting the jump on next year's "America 250"] One score and fifteen minutes ago,…
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Deep cuts
RIP Brian Wilson... Sequel songs... Cheap Trick and more Check out the latter half of Beach Boys Today! an album I didn’t know much about until Wilson’s…
The best and only advantage
Business communications constantly obsesses over the latest buzzwords and technological jargon. Here’s a novel idea. What if businesses cut through the noise, talking instead about…
Us lucky sevens – Remembering Paul Johnson
Remarks on Paul "Pableaux" Johnson in Austin • April 12, 2025 Good afternoon. A reading from Paul: “Brick House” by The Commodores ought to be…
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Absurd queries, corporate comms evolution
30 years of pranking by post — and what we learned “…the deadpan and gullible responses from major corporations, especially when read aloud, bring on…
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Reviewing Chaos
Book review (plus) Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill; Chaos, Netflix documentary by Errol Morris. In the late 1990s,…
The Onion
The Onion In 1998 I successfully pitched The Onion to join its roster of contributing writers, selling them headlines. This was when it was still…
Book review: The Last Empire
Book review: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal Earlier this month I mocked 'the book review.' Why not? — I became a reviewer quite…
The briefing
A breakthrough item of mine is The Briefing, a press conference satire I created after viewing network coverage of James Kallstrom, then-FBI director, updating media…
Film review: Rounders
I’ve mentioned Paul was a connector. Through his networking, several of us became regular freelancers for Citysearch.com, an online local guide competing with Microsoft's Sidewalk.com. We…
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