#60: List-A-Mania VIII: High Incident
A bunch of stuff to catch up on while you're practicing social distancing!
Every Monday-Ftiday, Office Hours is packed with culture/music/marketing /non-coronavirus stuff that you may have missed. Welcome back to List-a-Mania!!!
CULTURE THINGS
“In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country.”
If you watched Tiger King on Netflix this weekend: a 2007 profile of profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
MUSIC THINGS:
A 1966 interview with Bob Dylan, 6 months after playing an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival.
“Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse”, a 1978 profile on Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun. Read it in pieces, it’s worth your time. Here’s part one and part two.
MARKETING THINGS:
The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout
An Inside Look at How An Ad Agency Sells A Car
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TUNES!
PLAYLIST: 1984
Spotify-exclusive, a whole bunch of jams from the year before I was born.
WASH YOUR HANDS!
STAY IN THE DAMN HOUSE!
CHECK ON YOUR LOVED ONES!
BE SAFE OUT THERE!
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