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  • Las Abuelas Must Cry

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    For many years, I was engaged to script the annual stockholder’s meeting video for a massive global enterprise headquartered in a Spanish-speaking country, despite the fact that my knowledge of the Spanish language is limited to “Soy innocente, no hecho nada.”   The most prominent stockholders of Empresa de Hormigón Huerta (EHH) were the elderly widows of the…

  • Jensen Sits Stone-Faced and Bemused

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    Once upon a time I worked for the Humongous Electronics Company — HEC — which insiders referred to as HEC, pronounced like the mild “oath or intensifier.” This usage was discouraged as detrimental to consistent branding, but flourished nonetheless.  However, the company having long since gone out of business, I will use the term throughout…

  • Pod Goes Ballistic

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    Many years ago I was hired to write speeches for the CEO of an international hotel chain. Let’s call it Big Bucks Hotels and Resorts. Let’s call the CEO Nicolaus Pod.  With a major BBHR investor event coming up, I was also writing speeches for the executive VPs, one of whom we’ll call V. P.…