NOBODY ASKED ME BUT......
1) I was truly saddened by the news of Elizabeth Edwards (nee Anania---probably a better way of recalling her) who survived a long battle with cancer and a marriage with class until the end of both.
2) It’s just wonderful that there are people who can honestly say when being told of some bad acts by others----“.. it’s over and move on now since they are not going away and neither are we. Tolerance is a word that comes to mind---with great effort.
3) I am always delighted, honored---and truly surprised at my good fortune---to have met and engaged in conversation and friendship (with many) with so many people because of TRADITIONS & SUNDAY SIMCHA.
4) Facebook was a stroke of genius to its creator and a truly misleading thing to those who think they really made “friends”. “Sounding Boards”, “Customers”, and “Targets for Ads” would be a better term.
5) Advertising has changed from the days of “Mad Men”---a whole new and abbreviated way of communicating. Some truly technically and electronically creative and yet not literarily creative. The question is would the real BBDOs(Batten Barton Durstine Osborne), Y&Ms(Young & Rubicam), O&M (Ogilvy and Mather), DDB (Doyle Dane Bernbach) haver rolled with it or just their initials since they are long gone and we now live with a world of initials. As Shakespeare said –“...full of sound and fury signifying---NOTHING”.
6) If TV is a “ wasteland” as Newton Minnow once, so famously said, it has truly changed----into a “barren desert”. That applies to the “networks”—Cable is getting more creative---and, ecologically important given all their re-cycling---of older material that had some merit when the networks were still a “wasteland”.
