Tag Archives: advertising

My issues…

Here’s what Times Square looked like this morning when I exited the subway: faux football field with bleachers, pavilions, people milling about in costumes and tourists everywhere. SIgns urged people to deal with their issues through physical activities like “Dance like no one’s watching you” or “Punch your problems”. It might seem like this is… Continue Reading

Robert De Niro’s Forehead…

That vast expanse there is Bobby D’s forehead from the promotional poster for his new film, which I am not going to name. I have to ask the studio: Really? Really? What logic leads you to the point where you say that this is a good thing? Are we as a people so frightened by… Continue Reading

On the ground, or why this post doesn’t have a snappy title…

More time mucking about with the Nikon. I’m beginning to warm to it, although I hate using the view finder. It irritates me always having the camera lens identified with the eye. I’ve just finished Jaron Lanier’s You are Not a Gadget, a driven critique of online life and current trends in computing. Jaron was… Continue Reading

Pop culture knows what I want…

These days, there are two billboard images that give me that special warm feeling down below to the point that I’ve bean developing a couple of crushlets. Firstly, I’m not much into medical play, but I’ve been hypnotized by the above picture of sneering butch medi-dommme Edie Falco in her new series. Since I don’t… Continue Reading

God help the working man…

It’s been something like four years now and there is still ongoing construction across the street from my workplace at “1 Bryant Park” An utterly fabricated address that houses the new Bank of America behemoth. Things are certainly better now with the construction than they were a couple of years ago (imagine working below the… Continue Reading