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8 months ago

Exploring New York's Timeless Evolution: An Interview with Jamie McDonald, Creative Visionary and Author of New York City Yesterday and Today

Norm Goldman · Bookpleasures.com is thrilled to welcome Jamie McDonald, an exceptional creative force as our guest. · With a successful career spanning various media industries, Jamie has made a lasting impact on his ventures in film, television, and literature. · One of Jamie's most notable a ...

2 years ago

2022 IN ALL ITS GLORY IS UPON US.

Jim Murray · It's estimated that about 15,000 people crowded into Times Square in New York to welcome in the new year. But you can be pretty sure they were all idiots. This number was much lower than in previous years, and it's a good sign that there were many thousands of others who were con ...

2 years ago

THE HIDDEN STORY ARC. A WRITING LESSON

Jim Murray · Sometime in the spring of this year, I started a new screenplay. It was about a young man named Jeremy Sand, who invented an AI program to get this masters at · MIT. This program turned out to have amazing potential as a business tool. · But Jeremy’s foundational notes were stol ...

2 years ago

Quitting Stupid.

Robert Cormack · How to quit a job without feeling the slightest bit guilty or violated. · “I have no problem quitting things, because I have a horror of boredom.” Laura van den Berg · I’ve always known when to leave a stupid job. I’ve even quit a few agencies after a couple of weeks. They were · ...

5 years ago

Time for some humour

Royce Shook · Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellman's Mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery In Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New Y ...

5 years ago

Review: Roger Higgins' Billy Gogan Gone Fer Soldier is a must read for students of American History

Norm Goldman · If you are not familiar with the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Roger Higgins' Billy Gogan Gone Fer Soldier is a must read and should be on the shelf of every student of American history. · The novel is the second in the award-winning Billy Gogan series, and as mentioned on t ...

6 years ago

Pardon Me While I Dissect Myself

Jim Murray · Several people I know have suggested I write a post like this. I thought about it for quite a while and this is what I came up with. In my opinion, because that’s all I have, there are two dimensions to the why of writing or being a writer....the internal and the external. · The ...

6 years ago

New York is a Winter Wonderland

CityVP Manjit · I loved this share from Javier 🐝 beBee but the only thing with it is that I don't want to share it to my followers, especially since my participation is predicated in wonder, in learning, in discovery and in exploration.  I found the the picture fascinating and I write this buzz ...

6 years ago

True Confessions: A Chef's Guilty Pleasures

Paul "Pablo" Croubalian · Randall Burns" post. I shared it around. Many people told me, "Yeah, well, you guys are trained chefs! You always eat fancy-pants stuff." · No, we don't, although I do feel slightly hypocritical saying that. · I made eggs benedict for breakfast. · That doesn't invalidate the fol ...

6 years ago

The Mind’s Eye…Well Worth Any Writer’s Time Developing

Jim Murray · I first got into photography when I started writing screenplays. I have a lot of good ideas for character, dialogue and stories but I felt I was coming up short in I was coming up a bit short in describing the actual scene in which the action was taking place. · Since this is the ...

6 years ago

MUSIC HISTORY: Soundies—Black Music from the 1940s

Dominique 🐝 Petersen · Soundies were three-minute American musical 16mm films, produced in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood between 1940 and 1946, They each contained a song, dance and/or band/orchestral number.  · The completed films were made available for rental within a few weeks. Collections of ei ...

7 years ago

How to Make Great Tasting Pizza in Under 10 minutes (sort of)

Paul "Pablo" Croubalian · Wayne Yoshida and Lisa Gallagher both asked for my Indestructible Pizza Dough recipe. I call it indestructible because it's nearly impossible to goof it up. It can also handle freezing cooked or not. · Pizzas fall into two groups · There are the artisanal ones that are cute and l ...

7 years ago

The Not So Smoking Gun Of Mr Morkel

Jim Murray · It was probably 1985. I was working as an associate creative director at DMB&B Canada. · Our agency was growing like a weed because of both the merger between Benton & Bowles and D’Arcy McManus & Masius and the fact that we had some really good new business people. · Back then ou ...

7 years ago

Confessions Of A Soon To Be Ex-Torontonian

Jim Murray · I came to Toronto, by way of Fort Erie and Ottawa, in the late 1960s. Almost immediately upon arriving and getting a part time job at a discount department store called Towers, I met the girl who would eventually become my wife. · I owe Toronto more than it will ever know just fo ...

8 years ago

Why I Write. The Simplest Explanation I Can Offer.

Jim Murray · Several people I know have suggested I write a post like this. I thought about it for quite a while and this is what I came up with. · In my opinion, because that’s all I have, there are two dimensions to the why of writing or being a writer. · The internal and the external. · ...

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