# abel (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover abel. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Human Touch.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-human-touch.html) _2026-08-20 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I noticed something a few moments ago as I was having a cheese omelet on a stale onion roll for lunch. (Since there are virtually no bakeries left in amerikkka, just about all of the bread you can buy is either injected full of chemical preservatives or stale.) I noticed the plastic pepper mill on the table was proudly festooned with a logo that proclaimed “NON GMO.” Much of South East Asia was… ## [PRESIDENTIAL SECRECY ABOUT HEALTH: WHY TRUMP’S DECEIT IS AN UNACCEPTABLE THROWBACK](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/presidential-secrecy-about-health) _2026-08-19 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [Friends.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/friends.html) _2026-08-19 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Since Covid covered New York six-and-a-half years ago, and my wife and I packed a bag each (and two or three bags for our eight-year-old golden retriever, Whiskey) we have turned our ramshackle pile of seaside boards scattered willy-nilly along the rocky Gingham Coast into our primary residence. If you can call this living. My 1966 Simca 1500. Purrs like a kitten. A dead one. Much of the… ## [A Lot of People Will Hate This One.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-lot-of-people-will-hate-this-one.html) _2026-08-18 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I often think of myself as a can of soup. Or a French mustard. Or an Italian olive oil or balsamic vinegar. You can go to any grocery store and find about 259 others that look just like me. 259 others that have roughly the same ingredients, provenance and heritage. 259 others that do roughly everything I do roughly as well as I do it. That’s the world most of us face every day. Whether we’re… ## [The Irrelevancing of the Ad Industry. (And Us.)](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-irrelevancing-of-ad-industry-and-us.html) _2026-08-17 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Last week, you couldn’t spit without hitting about 97,000 posts on LinkedIn and the bought-and-paid-for trade press about last week’s most important advertising topic. Or the most important topic according to all those easily shiny-objected out of noticing what’s really happening in the world. To you really care about instagram’s “runic” “r.” Does it change the facts about the brand (no matter how… ## [Paddling the River Avon to Bath](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/08/16/paddling-the-avon-to-bath/) _2026-08-16 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ See also:The Bradford-on-Avon Loop Returning from a week’s e-biking in Wales took me right past Bradford-on-Avon, a good chance to paddle the Avon again, this time 17km all the way to Bath via five weirs. Last year I did the shorter loop from BoA, returning via the Kennet canal which runs alongside and even crosses \[…\] ## [We Should No Better.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/we-should-no-better.html) _2026-08-14 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Back about twenty years ago, someone had passed me a counterfeit ten-dollar bill. It looked a little strange, slightly washed out, but without thinking too much about it, I went to a local restaurant and bought a roast chicken with it. And two sides. If you threw out everything that comes your way that looks off, the entire ad industry, every relationship you’ve ever had, and the world economy… ## [There’s a Test for That.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/theres-test-for-that.html) _2026-08-13 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Over the last couple of weeks, WPP’s stock has risen considerably. Its share price, which was down in the low-teens six months ago, is now in the mid-to-high twenties. Its market-cap, which had plummeted to about $3 billion from a high of about $16 billion has climbed to almost $6 billion. Much of that rebounding comes after WPP’s latest earnings report which financial people regard as… ## [RFK, JR.’S ATTACKS ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-attacks-on-anti-depressants) _2026-08-12 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [Two is the Loneliest Number.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/two-is-loneliest-number.html) _2026-08-12 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ It’s Sunday morning as I type this. Sparkle has been walked. She’s had an hour in the dog park with various canine friends. Especially Graham. I’ve done two walks me-self. One of two miles in the dog park. Another of two miles along the beach. It’s about 200 degrees out and I’m schvitzed. I have two posts written for next week, and can’t relax until I get a third. That’s the rule. If I don’t have… ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YIcRGqgdTkNV) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [Be a Rube.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/be-rube.html) _2026-08-11 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ About 15 years ago when I went back to Ogilvy to help run the IBM account, I came to the realization that while a lot of people jabber on and on about technology, very few people understand what technology actually does or how it actually works. Even fewer can actually explain it so it’s memorable and sexy. I also realized that journalism had started doing a better job explaining processes and… ## [Damn You.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/damn-you.html) _2026-08-10 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ As we head into the midterm elections, I can’t help but thinking there is too much lee-way in the world. Without getting into politics, there are somethings that are just wrong. Wrong enough so you should be excluded from “people-facing” roles for ever. A senatorial candidate with a Nazi tattoo. OUT. A designer who said he loved Hitler and told Jewish women that they should have been gassed. OUT.… ## [Hit By Pitch.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/hit-by-pitch.html) _2026-08-07 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I was batting fifth which is my favorite place to bat. You don’t have the pressure on you that the third batter has, in this case Danilo Garibay, who was in spitting distance of a .300 season, and already, with more than twenty games left, had knocked in over one-hundred runs. You also don’t have the weight of batting clean-up like Salome Rojas had. Salome, Hector said, often shaking his head at… ## [Wow Writing.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/wow-writing.html) _2026-08-06 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I read this last week in The Economist: If you care about passé things like art, literature, craft, beauty and wit, this would be a hard article to ignore. Also if you’re from New York and you love it as so many New Yorkers do. Even if they’ve re-locaterized two-hours north to the Gingham Coast, where an outfit of Lilly Pulitzer is considered resolutely OG. Then if you make it to the first… ## [“GET ACTIVE” Yet Another Government Website We Don’t Need](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/get-active-yet-another-government) _2026-08-05 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [What Would HBR Say?](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/what-would-hbr-say.html) _2026-08-05 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ When I worked on Mercedes-Benz in the middle-90s, the brand, at least to my eyes had been shaken to the core by the advent of Japanese “super-luxury” competitors. Seemingly overnight, Mercedes no longer had the high-end of the car market to pretty much to themselves. All of a sudden they were being eaten alive by Infiniti, Acura and mostly mostly mostly Lexus. Because of vagaries of currency… ## [Disinformation X 2.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/disinformation.html) _2026-08-04 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Disinformation has a Soviet ring to it. With a sprinkling of Kafka. Wrapped in corporate PR. And shrouded in military-industrial complex. Such is the prevalence of disinformation today—in every walk of life—and the success of disinformation today, that we seldom even hear the word anymore. People are too busy being “transparent” and “authentic.” That said, Google Ngram disagrees with me. (Ngram is… ## [Diff. Er. Ent.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/08/diff-er-ent.html) _2026-08-03 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Does work like this matter anymore? Almost forty years ago, I developed a test. A test of people. (As my daughters might say, I’m a judgey sonofa.) Around that time, even though I was young, often clients and others would ask me if I would talk to their niece or nephew, or a friend of a cousin’s tennis coach, because they wanted to get a job in advertising. When I started in 1993 or so teaching a… ## [Boney Tenant.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/boney-tenant.html) _2026-07-31 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Every once in a while, you read something or stumble across a story that is so profound that you feel obliged to check if it were written by Sophocles or Plutarch. This story here from Wednesday’s “Wall Street Journal” is an example of what I mean. You can read it here. I was never much of a Tony Bennett fan until 2001 when my father died. Around that time there was New York’s last jazz station… ## [Worms Matter.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/worms-matter.html) _2026-07-30 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Words matter, about 2,000 pundits a day pompousicate on LinkedIn. Words matter, says every client in every meeting. Words matter, say hack-assed creative directors, without every bothering to read the words. Words matter, as another billboard goes up that hasn’t a soupçon of stopping power, charm or wit. Or even coherence. Words matter. And then we bring on legions of machines that don’t… ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3TUklSMVnqjO) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [Can I Quote You?](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/can-i-quote-you.html) _2026-07-29 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I don’t think people or agencies should quote notable advertising people—like Bernbach or Ogilvy—if they don’t at least take a stab at abiding by their standards of work, or how people are treated or the ethics of business those two men believed in. You shouldn’t cite someone’s words but ignore their intent. I recoil when I see Ogilvy, the entity, co-opting the words of their founder when there’s… ## [Apologies.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/apologies.html) _2026-07-28 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I’ve only been to Berlin, Germany once, and that was for an IBM shoot, not a tourist visit. Still I woke up around four in the morning every morning to try to get lost as well as I could. The hotel we were staying in had been a bank. It was on a plaza across from Humboldt University and not far from the location of the nazi’s notorious book burnings, the first of which flamed in May, 1933, just a… ## [ABORTION IN US HISTORY](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/abortion-in-us-history) _2026-07-27 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Janet Farrell Brodie ## [Worms.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/worms.html) _2026-07-27 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ One of my first big bosses, a recent inductee to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, was John C. Jay, who steered the creative department at Bloomingdale’s in-house agency in the early 1980s. Later, John helped make Wieden & Kennedy great and Nike as hot as they ever were. John had an amazing array of talents. But perhaps more than anything, he could spot a trend long before anyone else. I guess… ## [New Gumotex Caleya vs Gumotex Twist](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/07/25/new-gumotex-caleya-vs-gumotex-twist/) _2026-07-25 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ Gumotex IKs New for 2026 is the Gumotex Caleya single seater kayak (left) which seems to fill the gap between the two ten-year-old Twist models. It s 40cm shorter than a Twist 2 solo/double (below left), but 60cm longer than a dinky Twist 1. Up front you get a half deck which I find less useful \[ \] ## [Venereal Advertising.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/venereal-advertising.html) _2026-07-24 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Not too long ago, there was an opinion piece in The New York Times by the founder of the retailer Patagonia. Assuming you can still read, you can find it here. Chouinard’s essay starts like this: Over 50 years ago, my wife, Malinda, and I bought a chef’s knife of carbon steel that we still use. It could be passed down to several generations. Compare that to the junk stainless steel ones that might… ## [Sketchy.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/sketchy.html) _2026-07-23 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ One of the great joys of my life in a life that, despite my lugubrious mien has many, is abebooks.com . Though abe sold itself to amazon back in 2008, and I despise amazon and its non-tax-paying owner, trillionaire jeff bezos, I still shop there. That’s the beauty of today’s monopolies. Standard Oil could sell their petroleum only once. Armour and Swift could sell their cows and hogs only once.… ## [Packrafting Durdle Door](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/07/22/packrafting-durdle-door/) _2026-07-22 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ Anfibio TXL main page The last time we paddled this part of the Jurassic Coast (video above; more here) we were zipping along under sail or navigating in choppy waters and I didn t get a chance to have a good look around. Now the latest heatwave and strong winds has subsided, today I wanted to \[ \] ## [Owned.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/owned.html) _2026-07-22 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ More than two decades ago, as a brief chapter in my Agency-wandering-Jew-ness, when I had four jobs in three cities in two years, I found myself in a giant coroner office of a giant bland agency that had hired me to un-bland them as long as I could do that without a) spending money or b) demanding original thinking or c) upsetting their profitable status quo. In other words, like so many clients… ## [Crashes.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/donkeys-chasing-carrots-forever.html) _2026-07-21 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I finished late last night during another losing battle with Dame Insomnia, Andrew Ross Sorkin's great book you-should-drop-everything and read, "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation." You can order it here for $12.52, with free shipping. If you order this book, or any book for that matter, you'll likely have it delivered in plastic packaging. The… ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/crEMnUVtPo3s) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [REVERSING FIFTY YEARS OF ADVANCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/reversing-fifty-years-of-advances) _2026-07-20 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [An Act of Cod.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/an-act-of-cod.html) _2026-07-20 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Toward my waning days at Ogilvy (and when you work for a holding company, your days are always waning) I was asked to help out on a pitch for a passel of Johnson & Johnson products. After centuries as J&J, J&J changed its name to Kenvue. I think they believed this would help indemnify some portions of the company from billions of lawsuits against it talc-based business. DuPont did something… ## [We Have a Problem.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/we-have-problem.html) _2026-07-17 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Not too many minutes ago, I got off the phone with a prospective client who had called me somewhat unexpectedly. Sometimes that's the best kind of call. Sometimes lack of preparation and background forces you to answer questions in a "reactive" or limbic way, the way your head might react when avoiding an unexpected round-house sucker-punch. Maybe it's a function of having been born during the… ## [Figs.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/figs.html) _2026-07-16 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ I was a kid at a time before there were a lot of "organized sports" for kids. Sure there was Little League in the Spring, and Pop Warner football in the Fall. If you were so inclined, there were probably swim teams at the Y and even hockey leagues here and there. But for the most part, sports just happened organically, like a stray gust of wind picking up a pile of leaves or an apple falling on a… ## [E Pluribus Grift.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/e-pluribus-grift.html) _2026-07-15 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Two things happened yesterday or the day before that not too terribly long ago would have had a profound impact on my life. First WPP, the holding company that's shed more than half its people over the last ten years, has just announced yet another round of "restructuring." It's hard for me, a guy who shuns euphemisms and prefers honest language, to accept a world that's allowed the word… ## [“THE MOST VULNERABLE AMERICANS WILL PAY THE PRICE”: Stripping Temporary Protected Status from Immigrant Health Care Workers](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/the-most-vulnerable-americans-will) _2026-07-14 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [Lindsey.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/lindsey.html) _2026-07-14 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Some years ago when I first opened GeorgeCo., LLC, a Delaware Company, my new business phone was ringing fairly off the hook. Though nobody wants to be fired from a steady job, I came to believe that the timing of my firing was actually pretty good. Not only was I able to beat the Covid "let's-fire-everyone-rush," when I was fired Ogilvy hadn't yet lost its reputation as a legitimate agency. To… ## [Unintentional.](https://adaged.blogspot.com/2026/07/unintentional.html) _2026-07-13 · george tannenbaum · Ad Aged_ Back about five years ago, I got a call from Steve Hayden, a friend and mentor. Steve had not only been the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, he probably won more new business for that agency than any ten other people. He was also the copywriter on Apple's "1984" commercial, a spot many people regard as the best or most-famous or most-important ever. Steve had a client who needed manifesto-ing… ## [Bikeraft Sailing](https://inflatablekayaksandpackrafts.com/2026/07/11/bikeraft-sailing/) _2026-07-11 · Chris S · Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts_ Bikerafting Christchurch Bikeraft sailing sounded like a good idea I d not tried yet, and now in the midst of this summer s third heatwave, it s high time to get on the water! Lately I ve been distracted by other outdoor activities. Today s 10mph easterly ought to work well across Poole Harbour, followed by the dreary reed-bound slog \[ \] ## [From Peer Review to Political Censorship](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/from-peer-review-to-political-censorship) _2026-07-08 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Andrea Sankar ## [WHY THE US BLOCKADE IS THE WRONG RESPONSE TO THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/why-the-us-blockade-is-the-wrong) _2026-06-29 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [GRIST FOR ADVOCATES MILL:PART II Judges Defending Public Health](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/grist-for-advocates-millpart-ii-judges) _2026-06-24 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [PATIENT DUMPING:](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/patient-dumping) _2026-06-19 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ A LONG-STANDING AMERICAN PRACTICE Emily K. Abel ## [“A VITAL BULWARK AGAINST HUNGER AND INSECURITY”](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/a-vital-bulwark-against-hunger-and) _2026-06-09 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [VALUING LIFE IN A PANDEMIC](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/valuing-life-in-a-pandemic) _2026-06-01 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [AN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXPERT LOOKS BACK AT USAID](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/an-international-health-expert-looks) _2026-05-26 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Joanne Leslie with Emily K. Abel ## [HOSPICE FRAUD](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/hospice-fraud) _2026-05-18 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [GRIST FOR ADVOCATES’ MILL:](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/grist-for-advocates-mill) _2026-05-11 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Judges Defending Gender Affirming Care Emily K. Abel ## [Revised posting for VILIFYING “SOCIALIST” MEDICINE"](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/revised-posting-for-vilifying-socialist) _2026-05-07 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel ## [VILIFYING “SOCIALIST” MEDICINE](https://andreasankar1.substack.com/p/vilifying-socialist-medicine) _2026-05-07 · andrea sankar · Urgent Care_ Emily K. Abel