Category Archives: On Media

Oh Tom, Oh Ira

It was a star-studded weekend for this Fly on The Wall. Having two cellphone photos of my two exciting famous encounters this weekend was too good to pass up. Saturday afternoon was my run-in with Tom of Tom’s of Maine at the grocery store, then Sunday night was the evening of my 30-second conversation with [...]

Portland Print Report

The mag that kicks off my fall print-publication-observation report isn’t even close to based here in Portland Ore., but it has shown its glossy-lesbian face all over coffee shops enough for me to notice. Jane and Jane launched sometime last year, and I can’t remember quite when my friend passed me the link, but I [...]

Talk about Talk about Bottles

I’m tasting a trend here and my own reaction to it has me perplexed. Over the past few weeks, the hot-topic issue around analytic media outlets seems to be the fascination with bottled beverages. The NYT, Willamette Week, and Fast Company have all printed piles of words on the topic. How they harm the environment, [...]