The Burbank airport dream
I’m on the tarmac at Burbank airport, watching a commercial being made. I notice a small fire on the edge of a wooden…
Read MoreI’m on the tarmac at Burbank airport, watching a commercial being made. I notice a small fire on the edge of a wooden…
Read MoreAll morning my foot’s been hurting. “What new infirmity has befallen me?” I asked myself. It turns out my infirmity was in the…
Read More(NOTE: Today’s lesson is of the multimedia variety. Open another browser tab with this link and turn up the volume. And keep in…
Read MoreWe live in a part of Downtown Los Angeles that in real estate parlance could accurately be called “Skid Row-adjacent.” It could be…
Read MoreA year ago today… Strictly speaking, Good Friday 2013 was more than a year ago because it’s the department store chains that set…
Read MoreThere are many consumer products whose names include numbers. A theory exists among advertising professionals that numbers make brand names catchier. But what…
Read MoreWhen I attended culinary school in the 1990s the Food Network was still somewhat new and star chefs were just beginning to proliferate…
Read MoreThere has been considerable news coverage and commentary recently about Brendan Eich, first when he was appointed chief executive of Mozilla and shortly…
Read MoreOver a month has passed since I first reached out to the people at BuzzFeed. While the material on their web site is…
Read MoreI found myself a few years ago at a dining table with several people, among them a man I disliked very much. The…
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