Last night I caught about 30 seconds of Ken Burn’s latest paean: “The National Parks”, which was quite enough.  I already feel as though I’ve watched the entire series. “The National Parks are the enduring treasure of the great experiment that IS the United States….”  Substitute “Jazz”, “Baseball”, “The Brooklyn Bridge”,  “The Statue of [...]

  I’ve learned a couple of interesting factoids while doing freelancing work at advertising agencies.  While working on design of the “Who Would You Give a Volvo To” contest (which I insisted on calling “To Whom Would You Give a Volvo?”) the entire firm where I was employed was informed that Ariana Huffington would be [...]