Everybody’s favorite ad man, present company excluded, suave and eloquent Don Draper, returns to TV this Sunday night (March 25) on AMC for the 5th season of Mad Men, the four-time Emmy winning, politically incorrect drama about advertising in the 1960s. Forty-two times we’ve watched the inhabitants of mythical ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce [...]
Because of the sad and untimely death of the Pillsbury Dough Boy (again), our regular blog that usually covers social media, marketing and Lady Gaga’s outlandish outfits will not be run today. HARRIETT: You see what I see? STAN: No! I don’t see anything! HARRIETT: That’s just it. There’s nothing. Nothing as far as the [...]
Stan: So instead, I’m going to cancel the blog he had planned and run someone else’s blog instead! Right here!
Harriett: You’re going to run someone else’s blog right here on 10 Minutes of Brilliance? You wouldn’t!
So, I wanted my readers to know that if YOU promise not to change horses midstream, I’ll keep mixing up metaphors like pigs in a haystack.
Have you ever seen the commercial where Sally Fields says that since she been taking Boniva, her osteoporosis is under control and now she’s back to normal. So is she’s back to normal, why can’t she fly.
Would you like to explain to your loyal readers why you’ve been away from the blog for so long? I know I’ve been AWOL from the blog for a while. I hate it when that happens, but LIFE (not the magazine) sometimes takes precedence. Sorry for the absence of brilliance. Hopefully, you were supplying your [...]
With suicide, murder, illness and yes, having to listen to Newt Gingrich again for another political season, it’s hard to imagine that you’re living in a Perfect World.
“Oh, I suppose you know everything, “ said Stan. “What are you, some kind of Einstein?”
“No, actually, I’m some kind of da Vinci,” said Leonardo. “He’s some kind of Einstein,” pointing to a man who bore a remarkable resemblance to Albert Einstein.
Leonardo da Vinci: Non penso c’è una probabilità della palla di neve in Inferno di quell’avvenimento.
Albert Einstein: In English, Leo, in English,
Leonardo da Vinci: Oh, sorry, Al. I said I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in Hell of that happening.
In fact, in the 1500′s, Facebook only had 12 people. And Twitter was just a tiny blue egg.
“Hey, wait. Where’d Goldenberg go?” asked Stan.
“I think he went online to look for a new job,” said Harriett. “What did you want him for?”
“Nothin’. I just wanted to razz him about publishing this blog before it was ready. No problem. I’ll catch him next time.”