by Bruce Turkel | Jun 27, 2011 | Branding
Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed when he crashed his Porsche 911 GT3 early Monday morning. A few hours before the 3 a.m. accident, Dunn had posted a photo on Twitter in which he is seen drinking with friends. Hours later, movie critic Roger Ebert tweeted: “Friends...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was a kid back in the dark ages of transistor radios. If a friend told me about a cool new song, I’d tune in to WQAM and wait until they played what I was waiting for. Usually it would take an hour or more if the song was hot. While I waited I’d get my cassette...
by Bruce Turkel | Apr 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Some revolutions start with a bang. “The shot heard ‘round the world” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson waxed poetic about the opening salvos of the American Revolution at the battles of Lexington and Concord. About 135 years later, “The shot heard ‘round the world” was used...
by Bruce Turkel | Dec 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Depending on when you started reading this blog it may or may not be obvious to you that it’s an experimental and constantly evolving work-in-progress. When I started the blog in August of ‘06, I had no idea what I was doing. I knew that I wanted to begin a dialog and...
by Bruce Turkel | Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
My laptop broke so I’m writing this blog post longhand. There was an afternoon once when I was at lunch and got inspired and thumb-typed an article on my phone but this the first time I’ve ever written a post with a pen and paper. Even that wasn’t so easy because...
