Perhaps the NY Times editors aren’t avid readers of newspapers such as, say, The NY Times. If they had been, they may have noticed the Gray Lady has basically run this same story on Pittsburgh every few months since about 2013. Sometimes it’s in Style, other times in Travel or the Business section. No complaints […]
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Panera cashed in this week to the tune of $7.5 billion, and good for them. I started going to Panera (then the single-location St. Louis Bread Co.) back in high school when the phrase “Fast Serve Healthy Casual” were just four randomly strung together words. More than 1000 transactions later, I can’t remember more than […]
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Sex sells cars. Who knew? In its new commercial, Volkswagen goes all hot and steamy in order to up-sell drivers into larger, more family-friendly VWs. While Dean Martin croons his cover of “The Birds & The Bees,” we see a young couple demonstrate how the Love Bug earned its nickname. Nature takes its course, and they […]
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Blame it on being an only child, but I talk to myself. In fact, I’m quite comfortable carrying out complete conversations in the four walls of the Cranium Club. Politics, sports, Golden Globe snubs. It can be quite the donnybrook. About a year ago, those voices called an intervention of sorts. I got called on the […]
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