Posted in Copywriting, Marketing, Writing on December 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Yes, after a hiatus I’m back visiting Seth’s blog and in his entry, Your Favorite Seth Posts, 2006, I came across a post from June 29, 2006 called Nine things marketers ought to know about salespeople (and two bonuses). And that, in turn, was the catalyst for the following:
If you want to get any kind […]
Posted in Business, Copywriting, Writing on December 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Somewhat related to yesterday’s post, A minor rumination on writing, Seth points out Top Two Best Times to Invest in Good Copy. It’s a Sony ad with copy that will come across as gibberish to most consumers.
Seth also alludes to another of my pet peeves when he mentions, “… trouble reading the small white print […]
Posted in Writers, Writing on December 20th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not sure ruminating can be considered “minor” since my dictionary defines it as “thinking deeply” but that’s neither here nor there … I’ve been mulling over how people think of writing and writers and I have something of a peeve in that regard.
Why is writing always considered lofty, important, artistic and so on? Why […]
Posted in Books, Communication, Language, Poetry, Reading on December 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Apparently Shakespeare’s use of language is good for your head. It gets it all excited and twitchy as it’s forced to do engage in that unusual process of thinking.
In particular, Shakespeare’s use of a linguistic technique known as a functional shift, where a part of speech is employed in an unusual way — a noun […]
Posted in Fredericton, Music, New Brunswick, People on December 18th, 2006 No Comments »
In an article called, “Sarah Slean attends the school of life,” there is a pretty good explanation of why I moved from the west to the east (when everyone else is going east to west):
“It never ever goes away,” Slean says of that sense of wonderment. “People just sort of tune it out. I think […]
Posted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, People on December 14th, 2006 No Comments »
There’s an excellent piece on the CBC site by Richard Handler called ‘Humans and the dance of expectations.’ It’s an opinion column based on the work of U.S. psychologist Jerome Kagan, who has studied children for some 60 years.
His studies have led to some conclusions about us, human beings, which Handler sums up with, ” […]
Posted in Music on December 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Last night I was at The Playhouse in Fredericton and, as the terrible cell phone image does a poor job of indicating, I saw Sarah Slean. It was a solo performance – just her and a piano.
For all intents and purposes, I knew nothing about her except her name and a few thirty second clips […]
Posted in Career, General, New Brunswick, Travel, Work on December 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
It appears the people here are a giddy lot, at least compared to the rest of Canada. According to a poll done by L’Observateur of 2,300 Canadians (as reported by the CBC):
New Brunswick and the rest of the Atlantic provinces — excluding Nova Scotia — scored highest in terms of personal contentment … The survey […]
