Cole Porter may have been onto something when he wrote “I Get a Kick Out of You.” “For a start, a relatively small area of the human brain is active in love, compared with that involved in, say, ordinary friendship. “It is fascinating to reflect”, the pair conclude, “that the face that launched a thousand …
Author Archives: Cynthia Closkey
Not enough hours in the day
Danny Gregory scolds us, albeit gently, for not finding time during the day to exercise our creative energies.
Hipper than thou
Hipster Detritus hints at an upcoming screed against indie music credsnobs and suggests Ten Hipster-Baiting Statements to liven up any party or club gathering. I don’t hang out in the clubs enough to make adequate use of this, but I want to be part of spreading the love. (Link via The Minor Fall, The Major …
You’re soaking in it
Adrants laments the death of lasting brand positions in the course of noting that Jan Miner (Palmolive’s Madge the Manicurist in the long running ad campaign) died on Sunday at age 86. Interestingly, Palmolive is not among the entries in the “Advertising Hall of Fame.” For me, having grown up watching TV in the 70s, …
Harder than it looks
A former British cabinet minister spends a week as a teacher, and the teacher she replaced has to watch on “reality TV.” (I’m currently teaching a theater workshop to third and fourth graders, and the single hardest thing so far is maintaining discipline while also engaging the kids and keeping everything fun and informative. Well, …
If you can’t post something nice, don’t post anything at all
Here’s an excellent, carefully thought and worded post on corporate blogging. I wasn’t sure at first what “corporate blogging” might be, but it turns out to be blogging from a company standpoint (as opposed to an individual’s standpoint). It’s what I’m recommending my web clients to consider … although so far all of them have …
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Cats ask for it by name
From AdSlogans.com, The Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame. I like that the Brylcreem slogan is in the top 10: I don’t remember a single Brylcreem ad (they may have been retired by the time I became aware of advertising) and yet I know this slogan. That’s a memorable line. (Link via Cup of Chicha.)
Everyone who lives in Lidsville really flips his lid
“Have you ever thought you liked a terrible song just because you remembered it, mistaking mere recollection for actual nostalgia? That’s the way it is for me and “H. R. Pufnstuf.” I thought I had fond memories of the show until I had a chance to see it again, to hear the shrieks of an …
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Gaming the system
A system error makes clear what everyone expected but couldn’t demonstrate: Writers and their friends anonymously give their own works high reviews on Amazon. “Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company’s Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United …
A new breed of Valentine’s Day card
Happy Friday the 13th before Valentine’s Day. (Link via Stephany Aulenback at Maud Newton.)