When is the last time you got legitimately excited about a new movie or TV show? When you had a moment where the idea of seeing the premiere genuinely got your energy level up? If you’re like me, it probably…
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Always be closing.
We are salesmen. All of us. I have worked with colleagues who view people in sales and marketing departments with disdain, and I used to share such sentiments. They’re not creative, they’re just selling something other people did. They just…
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Lessons in design, from Don Draper: You are not the work.
John was sweating. He sat in a stiff plastic chair, waiting to be called in. John shifted in his seat, and tightened his tie. He needed to look his best. Don Draper always looked his best. Just two hours before,…
Featured Articles, TV
Lessons in life, from Phil Hartman: Be the Glue
I’ve always been a big fan of Saturday Night Live. And yes, I know that there is a lot of “uncool”-ness reflected in that statement. The show has gone through many peaks and valleys through the years, but I’m still…
Featured Articles, Movies
The absent corpse: How Hollywood is hiding us from death
UPDATE: In the wake of the Aurora killings at a movie theatre showing The Dark Knight Rises, and with so many opinions being propagated around movie violence and it’s potential influence on what happened, I thought it would be appropriate…
Featured Articles, Geek, My Quora answers, The Prisoner, TV
Why was the Prisoner in The Village?
Let’s go to the clues in the show, shall we? In the first episode Arrival, the Prisoner (I will call him the Prisoner because that is what his character is named in the scripts) is told by the New Number…
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Dad.
The human being also known as Paul Douglas Dickerson ended his conscious existence and life sometime during the day of November 5th 2010. He was alone, in his bedroom, in Moody Alabama. He was also my father. The reason I…
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I miss Warren Zevon.
I’m filling the dishwasher after another nondescript day, and I’m listening to the classic rock radio station on the kitchen’s radio station. A comforting flow of innocuous memories, music once vibrant now freeze-dried and repurposed to make Boomers feel Safe…
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Citizen Kane, man-child: The ultimate American
I recently had the great pleasure of re-watching Citizen Kane, one of my favorite films, with the added pleasure of watching it while I listed to Roger Ebert’s great commentary track. Ebert, as many of you may know, has had…
Featured Articles, The Prisoner, TV
Revisiting The Prisoner, The End: Where we find out who Number One really is
I grew impatient over this past week and decided to cut right to the chase – rewatching the last two episodes. Here’s my thoughts on the series finale, and if I have time I will post additional thoughts on the…