Archive for 2025/03


Re-Southwest/Bags No Longer Fly Free

They’ve potentially just lost so much of the touring business. Free bags has been a budget-saving godsend. And Nashville is a hub! Lisa Arzt ___________________________________ I’m with you here.  A long time LUV customer and at one time investor, because I loved the service. But times change and unfortunately so did this business model.  They […]

Bags No Longer Fly Free

“Southwest Will Begin Charging for Checked Bags, Ending a Popular Policy” https://shorturl.at/YO6Ob I believe in Southwest Airlines. I think it’s the irreverence that hooked me. The flight attendants who pick up the intercom with attitude, who make jokes, like regular people. You see more of that in advertising these days, what works is the vernacular, […]

More Molly Hatchet

Great thread on Molly Hatchet. This was the first success I had as a marketing executive at Epic in 1978. Working with Werman and Charne helped me learn how to develop plans to introduce new bands to the consumer. The Frazetta cover was introduced to me by Paula Scher in the CBS Records art department. […]

The Musk Meltdown

How much money did you lose today? Now if you’re a young ‘un, who believes they’ll be healthy until the day they die, working all the while, there’s no need to prepare for the future. But if you’re a boomer, living on a fixed income. You had to own stocks just to keep up with […]