Bizarre convergence

The San Luis Obispo New Times published a piece last week thats caused a bit of a hubbub. The first I heard of it was on a local newscast on Thursday night last.

Apparently many local folks had much to say about it, including ex-addicts who felt the piece's open discussion of "how to" was a bit over the top. They also didn't seem to care for the 'recipe' that was published alongside the story.

So, what does this have to do with me?

I'm sitting at work this afternoon and get a call from the Account Supervisor on one of my largest client accounts. This story has been brought to his attention--all the way in New York--through feedback from a local store. He's curious to know exactly what the piece was and who originally published it.

He wondered as well whether we had or were planning to discuss the story in our pages. Branding issues, no doubt.

I was able to address his questions and when I got off the phone I wondered exactly why I had bothered. Seeing as how he explained we've been dropped from the corporate buy for '06.

Been a bad week on that front.