It’s true, the recession is upon us – and it’s international. The global market has us all lashed to one another, and our little raft is taking on water. Think you can escape the crunch by fleeing to the UK, or to Australia? Perhaps you think this is 1908, sonny-boy, but you’re out of expatriatic [...]

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I buy the Times each morning, even though I also read it sporadically through the day for free on the internet. I do this because I am a fabulously rich man, but with the recession this will soon change, and it’s time that we stopped spending money on words. There are so many words to [...]

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Tip #3: Don’t have kids.
Kids cost money. According to common knowledge, they cost upwards of $17,000 a year. Do you have a spare nearly 20 grand lying around? Perhaps you’d like to spend it on Legos and child-size skateboards that linger, unused, in the garage. In place of the car you had to sell. Or [...]

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It’s Restaurant Week here in the bountiful borough of Brooklyn, and so today we upped our lunch level. For a very reasonable flat fee, we took advantage of the finest restaurant floating on a barge underneath the Brooklyn Bridge (a neighborhood we lovingly refer to as DUBBO), the River Café.
Notes on living large:
• Although there [...]

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I was hard at work at the studio one day when Renda’s uniquely polyregional accent popped into my ears. “And if I’m at a party? And suddenly people start playing video games? I’ll leave.” She paused, as if in thought. “I’ll punch ‘em in the face!”
Unlike some people in the studio, however, I’m not opposed [...]

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Each week, we ask our circa 1993 teen development program / binder how to solve our very adult problems.

What Type are you?
“Boys often classify and describe girls according to the way the girls act around them: Shy, A Flirt, A Pal, Natural.”Here is a breakdown of the four types of girls:
• a SHY girl “may [...]

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This is an idea that I’ve been kicking around for a long time now, but never to the point where I’m satisfied enough to move forward. I’ll share it now, though, just to get it off my chest.
The aim is to develop a publication that would “come into itself” over the course of assembly. An [...]

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As noted in an earlier entry, I have a hard time writing anything from within the visual confines of a graphic user interface. It may be that, as a graphic designer, I’m overly sensitive to visual space. But when it comes to designed experiences I retreat retreat retreat. I need my mental autonomy!
What I neglected [...]

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Welcome back to the Patent Office! Here are some ideas I’ve had for 15m radio dramas:
The night before
he can’t remember
wakes up but can’t see
now what

Two guys are racing on foot through a very crowded city. It’s the day of a festival – everyone’s out in costumes and singing songs, playing ball, having street BBQs. It [...]

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There’s a baseball team in Florida, and they’ve got some image problems. There’s a guy who hurls baseball bats at umpires, and another fellow who has had multiple restraining orders placed upon him by the wife he keeps threatening to kill. They are the only franchise in the majors to have never made it to [...]

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