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2011

“Flower, oh my Georgia!”

I think it was Erasmus who said that the desire to write grows with writing. It’s perhaps a bit presumptuous + more

Thought of the Week

The estimable Curtis “Caput” Smith, culinary instructor and prize-winning chef, once told me he’s convinced that “if every person on + more

NOT a Laughing Matter

It seems that any time someone laments the deterioration of our language, there’s a knee-jerk response from the perpetrators, smugly + more

This Day in History…

For some reason, Very Important Things seem to happen on April 12. 1633 Galileo goes on trial for heresy 1861 + more

Touch Wood

Words fail me.

Thursday Geekery

How much is Smaug worth? Michael Noer does the math—so you don’t have to.

Fight! Fight!

The biggest egos I’ve ever seen were in the advertising business—both on the client and the creative side. (We writers, + more

The Bovine Menace

Between 2003 and 2008, shark attacks in the United States resulted in the deaths of four people. During the same + more

Monday Miscellany

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher has it all: a creepy Victorian family, an English country manor, a brutal murder, and + more

Press Release

SPOKANE, WASH., April 1, 2011 – In a stunning move announced late Thursday evening, Anderson Mraz Design revealed that it + more

What if…?

Veteran Hollywood writer Rob Long wonders whether 24/7 connectedness—online gaming, texting, instant messaging, tweeting, et al.—is really such a bad + more

50 Books You Can Just Go Ahead and Ignore

Even though it’s a bit, well…jarring to see Dostoevsky and Chaucer on the same list as Stephenie Meyer, it’s worth + more

Milton Glaser’s Got Some Splainin’ to Do

Among many, many questionable entries just added to the online edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is the graphic heart + more

Future Director of Marketing

On a recent photo shoot for one of our clients, I came across this message from a fourth grader. He + more

Narrowing Your Target Market

Prediction: this will fail, if only because the manufacturer makes some pretty big assumptions. AdFreak asks the important question: “Can + more

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