He’s going up again, my bi-polar friend, and we wonder when he’ll come down. He showed me a series of numbers today that he says reveal the age of consent, according to some culture at some time, to be six. It’s something that’s been on his mind for a while. Two small print design jobs […]
I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, right now. It’s about the many little things that accumulate to trigger rapid, large-scale change, sometimes unexpectedly. Another Gladwell book, Blink, affirmed my belief in what Gladwell calls “rapid cognition.” Marketing pieces succeed or fail in an instant, grabbing attention and inciting desire. Or not. Bada bing. […]
At the top of the season, the best marketing angle for Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady seemed obvious. The play is about the company of actors who were performing at Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was shot and the star of the show – the eponymous leading lady – is Laura Keene, to be […]
