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Good time of year to thinking of sharing well with others.
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I don't think Santa wears such snappy glasses.
Jay was always generous at the holidays. If I'm not mistaken, one year we all got red Huffy bikes. And then, one year, it was Frank Sinatra's "Duets" album. (Maybe that wasn't Christmas, but nevertheless, it struck me as an odd gift.)
If you can remember other holiday gifts from Jay, please click on "Comments" and add your memories.
Steve
Someone sent me this this article from Ad Age about ten important people who died this year. I'm not sure Guy Day would appreciate being neighbors with Jimmy Dean and Art Linkletter, but you don't get to choose your fellow "in memoriams."
I haven't been faithful about posting to the site recently. I had a recent cancer scare (melanoma) which has now gone away. And then I decided (after 40 years) to treat my sleep apnea. Here's a photo of me at Benedictine Hospital on Tuesday night, all wired up.
Let this haunt your nightmares.
Again, thank you to Nancy Ullman for unearthing these Adweek columns by Jay.
(Click on the article image TWICE to see a larger version.)
Welcome to alum Jill (Agnelli) Ottersbach, who worked in the Seattle office of Chiat/Day (subsequently Chiat/Day/Livingston) from 1977 to 1984.
"Agnelli," just for the record, is Italian for "lambs."
Remember the PR firm in LA we owned for a couple of years in the early 90s? I've forgotten their name. But I can't forget the cleft-chinned dynamo who worked there. I've been kidding Jon Higgins for years about how much he looks like David Hasselhoff.
Luckily, Jon is wildly successful as the CEO of Ketchum International. Hasselhoff. Well, he has his own reality show. Enough said.
For the record (since Jon is in PR), he has NEVER been caught on film eating off the floor of a Wendy's.