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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Crustacean of the Month

Friday, February 2, 2007

Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal had a great profile on McDonald’s chef, Dan Coudreaut. McDonald’s. Chef. Make that “director of culinary innovation.” McDonald’s. So you read along, and this being the Journal, the line of his career development and outlook all has a business or marketing focus, but it’s fascinating all the same. Mickey D’s grows [...]

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Good Golly

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Earlier this century — hah! — I created a master’s thesis on how newspaper humor columns have changed. In figuring out how to tackle this, how to quantify the research to make it as solid as possible, I hit a problem: Not all humor writers are alike. Some seem to write with the intent of [...]

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