Appropriately enough, it was an ad agency colleague who guided me to and through the music of the Mad Men era. Before meeting him, I’d never heard of Blossom Dearie and was aware of Julie London only because she’d played that hot nurse character on television. Peggy Lee and Brenda Lee were not the same person, I discovered. My mother had been a fan of […]
Maybe you’ve seen the tragic young professional holding his head in his hands. “I can’t believe I bought a toaster with no bagel setting,” the caption reads. #firstworldproblems Google that hashtag today and you’ll find remnants of the meme that Alan Cranston conjured in 2012 when he invited us to stop instagramming our breakfast food and start making a difference. The implication was that it might have been bad form for us […]
