Kensinger Jones is an old-school advertising man who made his mark back in the 1950’s and 60’s with a lot of original, award-winning work. As I understand it, Tony the Tiger is one of his credits, as are the Jolly Green Giant and Lil’ Sprout, the Pilsbury Doughboy, and a number of advertising icons. He [...]
It’s Shirley Jackson’s birthday today, author of The Haunting of Hill House. I’d wax poetic about her, but Garrison Keillor already beat me to it on today’s Writer’s Almanac:
She was a very eccentric woman. For most of her life, she heard voices and music that no one else could hear, and she believed that she [...]