by Bruce Turkel | Aug 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I used to think that my father’s generation was the last one to live in two centuries at the same time. Growing up near Poe Park in the Bronx, my dad lived in a community with all the modern technological marvels including refrigerators, televisions, and...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
For the past few years, advertising to gay audiences has been the hypocritical little secret of a lot of marketers. They’re seduced by the demographics and sheer purchasing power of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) consumers but they’re...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
My friend and super-talented art director and illustrator, Soren Thieleman, sent me this text the other morning: “Good morning Bruce. I’m at a small café in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea and the door handle put a smile on my face. I haven’t tasted the food or had...
by Bruce Turkel | Jul 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago my mom recommended that my wife and I go to a restaurant she likes. She even gave us a voucher for the restaurant that she had purchased on Dealtificate, a couponing site similar in function to Groupon and others. She’d paid 20 dollars for $40 of...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Twitter has forever changed the way people communicate because being limited to 140 characters forces writers to be succinct. Even if you dislike Twitter, you can thank it for forcing people to shorten their prose. As editor Arthur Polotnik wrote, “You write to...
