*The post that makes you feel like you’re a hero. Every Monday morning.
My wonderfully angsty and body-bodacious friend Jeff Greenspan ignored all of our advice and left R/GA for BBDO.
And he did it his way….
I thought I was tired of the Hitler meme…but I loved it, Jeff.
Best of luck for continued success and I hope BBDO appreciates your pecs as much as Hitler and I do.
A very funny story, told by Malcolm Gladwell.
Tight structure, insightful descriptions…this story was taken from the Moth storytelling series. Stories are told onstage, with no notes or props – pure performance. Check out their podcast.
Malcolm Gladwell writes for the New Yorker and has written a few best selling books: The Tipping Point, Blink, The Outliers….
If this is what the upcoming Facebook movie is about – it pretty much sounds like a tech geek version of Bridget Jones’ Diary.
…Harvard sophomore Zuckerburg, a comp-sci major, had gotten the idea for doing an online facebook when he was slightly drunk on a Tuesday night. He’d just been dumped by his girlfriend, he was looking for a distraction, and he hacked into a Harvard database….
Birthday greetings to David Zuckerman.
From Garrison Keillor’s daily journal – the Writer’s Almanac
From today’s Very Short List:
But be sure not to miss Endgame, the fantastically suspenseful movie that chronicles the bizarre circumstances that led to Mandela’s 1990 release from prison (available on DVD 2/9).
Endgame, from British director Pete Travis, centers on the unlikely gatherings that eventually brought South Africa from white minority rule to its first democratic elections, in 1994. The extraordinary situation involved a British businessman who risked his life and his career to broker a series of talks between the president of the African National Congress (superbly played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and, through an Afrikaner philosophy professor (William Hurt), the National Party. Though many shots feature the frustratingly common “shaky camera” style, the film is worth seeing for its standout performances, crisp dialogue and intimate perspective on an improbable moment in history.