January 2012
9 posts
I have never written an advertisement in the...
British-born David Ogilvy was one of the original, and greatest, “ad men.” In 1948, he started what would eventually be known as Ogilvy & Mather, the Manhattan-based advertising agency that has since been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns, and in 1963 he even wrote Confessions of an Advertising Man, the best-selling book that is still to this day...
I know where I got on.
But I’m going in both directions somehow.
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
6 posts
2 tags
“This is the body of rock-and-roll, the bodily rhetoric of tiny increments...”
– Dave Hickey, The Delicacy of Rock-And-Roll
October 2011
5 posts
Foggy Santa Monica
Not much writing. Can’t be good, can it?
I’ve been reading a lot. I end up swallowing whole books in a day and can’t say if I actually enjoyed them. I just read and flip the pages and I’m done and the book goes back on the shelf. Can’t figure out if it says something about the book or me.
And it’s cloudy here almost every single day. Cross east over the 405...
oh yeah listen to this piece about the WORST PEOPLE EVER IN NYC.
http://thehairpin.com/2011/10/the-best-time-i-occupied-wall-street#more
Because.
September 2011
4 posts
Are Leaves Happy? and other sentences attributed...
I think we’ve outgrown our brains.
You should go on some faith-based retreat. I’m sending you on some faith-based retreat.
It’s like Rain Man.
If you get dessert, we’ll help eat it.
But what happened to the dinosaurs without feathers?
Every time Brad Pitt came on I was thinking, “Uggahggg.” In a bad way.
Why didn’t we just descend from Galileo?
I...
August 2011
10 posts
2 tags
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– Woody Allen (via atomos)
WatchThe master finally gets his time in the sun.
At some point today I’ll brush my hair. After that I’ll probably wash my face and change into clothes meant for exercising. I’ll think about exercising for about as long as I actually do it. Maybe just pick up a book instead and pretend the lycra helps with reading comprehension.
At no point will I feel guilty.
If the mailman hasn’t judged me by this point, neither should...
2 tags
July 2011
2 posts
wow sorry
Brb.
June 2011
8 posts
spending the days
When given the precious gift of time off, I find myself alternating freely between the following activities:
Laps around the block
Staring contests with the cat
Panicking in monk-like silence
Planning vacations I should take, but won’t
Finding new hobbies; i.e. cactus gardening, pancake eating, friendship bracelet making
Catching up on sleep because time off is tiring
Watchbenjaminpalmer:
Mr. Little Jeans Covers Arcade Fire
May 2011
16 posts
FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES
by Walt Whitman
Facing west from California’s shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales...
