John Fea. Neil Gaiman's Journal. Neil Gaiman. BBC Radio - Neverwhere (listen before april 2013) The New Adventures of Stephen Fry. Kristin Swenson. In the spirit of the season, my recipe for The Very Best Hot Chocolate Ever (or TVBHCE for short. Hah.): I like to start with the biggest mug I can get my hands on, not because it’s required to make a successful cup, but because I’m greedy. We have a few such mugs — a heavy purple and clay one with four crude (perhaps I should call them primitive) designs in the glaze, only two of which are recognizable — a deer and a tree. It reminds me of Minnesota, so it’s especially good in winter. Then there’s one with a van Go gh painting wrapped around the sides. Escape and Suspense!
Monkey See. Roger Ebert's Journal. When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960). Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. Maybe the 1980s. For sure, the 1990s. The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert.
Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today. " Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → The Oatmeal. McSweeney. Danny Gregory. The Creative License. I am an author and creative director dividing my time between Los Angeles and New York. I am working on several projects with publishers and with clients while speaking at conferences and organizations here and in Europe.
Before setting up this new bi-coastal life, I was Managing Director and Executive Creative Director of mcgarrybowen in New York. I helped build the agency, from its humble origins as a couple of dozen people sitting in a room looking at the phone and waiting for it to ring — to the global behemoth (1,000+ people, offices on three continents) it is today. We were named Ad Agency of the Year (twice by Ad Age and once by Ad Week which is apparently more picky) and I am proud to share in the credit for that.
Before that, I was Chief Creative Officer of Doremus, which I helped to turn from a 100-year-old tombstone shop into the B-to-B and Corporate Agency of the Year serving clients from Corning to Goldman Sachs. TheBloggess. Dooce®