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sales ID trick: totally made man
by Art Chantry: this is another one of those record covers that i consider absolutely perfect, even exquisite. granted, it’s not a recent cover or even a very famous cover. but, it’s absolutely impeccable in concept, execution and intent. i … Continue reading
such a deal for you
You can sell anything. Everything is negotiable. RIP Ziggy. Zig Ziglar, an American original that harks back to the old Yankee salesman, something out of Constance Rourke’s Americana treasury and Herman Melville and that old American archetype “the untrustworthy narrator.” … Continue reading
sky river highs on the helix
by Art Chantry: when walt crowley recently passed away, he was memorialized as a local seattle/washington state popular historian. his many books and articles written about local history (both old and new) firmly established him in the popular zeitgeist and … Continue reading
ironies abound
The ironies abound.Time Magazine cover photo showing Egypt’s first Islamist president was taken by a Jewish Israeli. Time magazine covers as the kiss of death? Time’s person of the year award?….Egypt has never respected the Camp David Sinai peace treaty … Continue reading
turning the bull loose
Very insightful to listen to an interview between Pimm Fox of Bloomberg and Michael D. Robbins and his long experience with the New York Stock Exchange as a floor trader and later brokerage owner, a career which began in the … Continue reading
built to last
It’s about value, and expectations and connecting to the past and its older tradition of craftsmanship, durability, reliability and value and away from the morass of the expendable, the disposable and the outright pieces of junk that form the basis … Continue reading
between the raindrops
Padding the wallet. Balzac – Behind every great fortune lies a crime. Behind every great fortune is a crime. Or perhaps a multiple series of crimes, a chain actions leading toward some altar of infinite power. The translation of Balzac’s original … Continue reading
good to the last bite
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Hostess Fruit Pies DC Comics ad, ca. 1975 Illustration: undocumented, but my guess is either Murphy Anderson or Curt Swan, pencils, and likely Vince Colletta, inks. …Farewell Hostess Brands 1930-2012. Upon further review, Hostess sponsored these … Continue reading




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