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Where all the ladies at? A belated review of “Art & Copy”, Part 2

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

Remember how I said in the last post that I had two responses (see how I give you credit for being a true and Constant Reader)? The thing that troubled me about Art & Copy was the thing that troubled my own career in advertising, and so profoundly affected (though I did not fully realize [...]

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I loved you once: A belated review of “Art & Copy”, Part 1

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

I finally got around to watching Art & Copy the other night, and had two responses. OMG, I <3 THIS!!! I was flooded with remembrances of what I once loved about advertising, why I wanted to be a writer, why I admired the agencies and creative people I did. I think I was only vaguely [...]

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Cheap Shot

by Farrah Bostic August 20, 2010 images

Saw this today at the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press website.  (Yes, sometimes I love to look at bar charts. I find them mysterious – they mean, after all, nothing, and yet signify so much.) Surely this is not breaking news?

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Big Truths

by Farrah Bostic August 2, 2010 images

Over on Things That Remind Me of Robots I posted something about coming back to watch the X-Files, 10 year later.  I won’t rehash it here, but it has got me to thinking a lot about the notion of Big Truths. Let me offer a definition:  A Big Truth is something that you have to [...]

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Dear Guy I Was Dating…

by Farrah Bostic July 17, 2010 images

Hi! How’ve you been? Actually, you know, I honestly don’t care that much besides, I feel pretty caught up on what’s happening in your life vis-a-vis twitter and just the usual idle gossip at the internet nerd bars, and then there was that time I actually ran into you at an Internet nerd bar, so [...]

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