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Michael Klein Writes...: June 2010
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Friday, June 25, 2010. You Can Get with This, or You Can Get with That – An Advertising Miscue. Still another cross post from. As Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) tells us in This is Spinal Tap, “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.” In advertising and marketing I feel it’s a fine line between genius and disastrous. But during recent World Cup games I witnessed what I would consider the advertising blunder of the year. And I think to myself, “Well, I’ve had the water before and didn...The Prope...
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Michael Klein Writes...: December 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. Dog Pile on the Snobs! Earlier this month I wrote about how out of touch Lexus – or perhaps their ad agency – is with the public. (". Lexus Gets Some Bad Advertising Advice. They are so enamored with their own jingle, they can't imagine a world in which we won't recognize it, even from just a few notes. ("Lexus, I know the. Bom, Bom,' and you are no 'Bom, Bom.'"). Then he walks up on a new Honda festooned with a ridiculous giant bow. "No? He adds, "Well then you probably don'...
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Michael Klein Writes...: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007. I’m not sure there is any other kind of self-promotion, so here goes. Recall this summer I got a plum writing assignment from my friend at NACS, the National Association of Convenience Stores, for his monthly magazine. I wrote a cover story for the July issue about Hollywood’s portrayal of convenience stores and gas stations in movies and on television. Being an on-his-toes self-promoter himself, my friend, Jeff Lenard, seized upon this opportunity to reach out to the Post rep...
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Michael Klein Writes...: February 2012
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Sunday, February 12, 2012. The Secret is Not Caring. I have a high tolerance for disorder. My desk says so; my car screams it. I consider it Zen-like – something to be admired. But then I got a dose of my own medicine. My wife, we’ll call her “Jen,” is the kind of person who likes laundry to be put away. You know the type – always with the folding and the finding a proper place for clothes. I do not share her obsession. I’m okay with clean clothes sitting in a laundry basket at the foot of the bed. Consi...
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Michael Klein Writes...: When Fear Mongering for the Greater Good Isn't Good
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Sunday, January 15, 2012. When Fear Mongering for the Greater Good Isn't Good. Political discourse, by its very nature, can be a nasty business. And it's this last word that makes the difference:. When I worked in Congress in the mid-90s as a press secretary I remember being apoplectic at some manipulative stunts President Clinton and his team pulled. The issue was the unsustainable growth of Social Security and Medicare (déjà vu anyone? From the Oxford English Dictionary, emphasis added). Forget about p...
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Michael Klein Writes...: June 2007
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Thursday, June 21, 2007. Writing Exercise - The Most Peculiar Gift Ever Given or Received. At my writers group on June 20th we did an exercise. We randomly drew prompts, then had about 45 minutes to write something. Here is my prompt and piece. Prompt: Tell the story of the most peculiar gift ever given or received. The second most peculiar gift ever recorded is a well documented gift that we will not delve into here. It was the ear of famed painter Vincent van Gogh, removed with a pen knife and boxe...
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Michael Klein Writes...: My, how big your brain is!
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Friday, February 03, 2012. My, how big your brain is! I’ve been trying to come to terms with e-books for some time now, and I simply can’t do it. It’s not that I fear technology – I embrace it, I really do. I have an iPad. I stream Netflix movies…wirelessly! I have technology street cred, my friend! I have two problems with e-books. First, and I don’t think I’m overstating this here, e-readers and e-books are harbingers of the apocalypse. Like the Real Slim Shady, they have been sent here to destroy us.
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Michael Klein Writes...: August 2007
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Friday, August 17, 2007. Good News, Masked by Stupidity and Technical Problems. Yes So this was the sign. It’s done. I had expected nothing and I was not disappointed. “Taking Cranberries” R.I.P. 1990 – 2007. BUT, I also entered, for the first time, a television script. It was a spec for the NBC show,. I thought it was pretty tight, nice little drama in 4 acts with snooty nods to some Japanese authors I admire. Very high-brow indeed. (Gag.). But then I got her email. She suggested that she should read.
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Michael Klein Writes...: July 2007
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007. Small World - The Morrison House Hotel Short Fiction Contest. He particularly felt the dread when the topic of his mother came up. And when he was alone with his father. These two situations were inter-related, but exactly how, Thad wasn’t sure. It had something to do with what many of the adults called “irony.”. So it was that young Thad was up before the sun in a quiet, small, yet elegantly-appointed hotel room in a city just outside Washington, DC, amusing himself. The city...
