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Challenges & Opportunities
October 4, 2023
Intro I’ll be heading out in an hour or so for the annual pharma conference I organize, host, and micromanage within an inch of its/my life. The main...
Hitting The Links: 10/1/23
October 1, 2023
Intro I’m in Columbus, OH for Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), an annual comics festival co-founded by my late friend Tom Spurgeon. Last year, I came here...
Fast Reading
September 27, 2023
Intro [As mentioned on Sunday, I’ve decided to do 2 posts a week instead of one: Sunday gets the Link-O-Rama, Current Reading, and Sound Body/Fractured Mind...
Hitting The Links: 9/24/23
September 24, 2023
Intro [The weekly version of this email was getting WAY long, so I decided to split it in two parts. On Wednesdays (or thereabouts), I’ll send out the email...
BEOTI
September 20, 2023
Intro “How are you able to DO everything!?” By which they mean holding down a heavy-duty day job while making the podcast (and doing all the related...
Fierce Luigi
September 14, 2023
Intro In Greek myth, the three-headed dog Cerberus guards the gates of the underworld. When I rang the doorbell of my dying friend last Friday, I was greeted...
Eternal Sunshine of the Tweetless Mind
September 6, 2023
Intro When I decided to delete my account on Facebook 6+ years ago, I told a pal that staying on it was like saying, “I don’t agree with the politics of Der...
Dead Sirius
August 30, 2023
Intro On my way back from picking up lunch today, the 1st Wave station on Sirius XM (it came with the car in 2019 & I renew every year) seemed to be...
Cheesecake, Penguins, Bucks
August 24, 2023
Intro I’d offer up something profound, but this is already a day late & I’ve got advocacy letters & an article to write for work, so instead you get a little...
Read the Label
August 16, 2023
Intro “I do have a little bit of a habit, yes, hon. You ought to at least give me a few marks for originality.” I’m in much better shape than last week, now...
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
August 10, 2023
Intro Sorry this one is a day late. The week has been rough. Last night, I had some concern I might die in my sleep. On Monday morning, I got diagnosed with...
Laugh Riot
August 2, 2023
Intro What were you doing on Jan. 6, 2021? I was prepping for a national TV interview about staffing at contract manufacturing organizations that were making...
Afterlifehacks for Ibburim
July 26, 2023
Intro I’ve never seen The Exorcist. I was 2 when it came out, so it’s understandable I didn’t catch it in the theater. I also somehow never caught it on...
Thank U India, Thank U Providence
July 19, 2023
Intro For a Virtual guy, I do revel in the analog. I wrote about that a month or so back — the joy I get from my daily postcard habit, mailing out the print-...
Samsonite
July 13, 2023
Intro Sorry this one’s a day late. I was getting two episodes of the show out this week, plus real work & more medical appts. for Dad. There’s plenty of...
As Is Now
July 5, 2023
Intro Just because I do the same goddamned things every single morning doesn’t mean I HAVE to do the same goddamned things every morning. It means I LIKE to...
Happy Cancerversary
June 28, 2023
Intro “Were it to be the lastHow infinite would beWhat we did not suspect was markedOur final interview.”—Emily Dickinson, #1164 Today’s my second...
One More Mailbox
June 22, 2023
Intro Man, the longest day of the year and I still didn’t make the time to finish this week’s newsletter. I’ve got a lot going on with work, esp. with a...
With an option to renew
June 14, 2023
Intro This past Monday was my semi-annual check-in with my oncologist to see if my chronic lymphocytic leukemia has progressed beyond Stage Zero. It hasn’t,...
Haiku for Business Travelers
June 9, 2023
Sorry to send 2 of these emails out in a week, but the long-(un)awaited second issue of my Haiku for Business Travelers ’zine came in from the printer...
The Haze
June 8, 2023
Intro I was going to tell you a story this week about a guy I kindasorta left for dead many years ago, and how I found out on Sunday he’s still alive. But I...
Vita Beata
May 31, 2023
Intro “Soto! Explore thyself!Therein thyself shalt findThe ‘Undiscovered Continent’ —No Settler had the Mind.”Emily Dickinson, #814 As part of my morning...
No Show
May 24, 2023
Intro “There is no Diligence like thatThat knows not an Until –”Emily Dickinson, #880 No podcast for you! Late last week, after a really busy month-plus of...
Talking drugs
May 17, 2023
Intro A team from 6 of the ~45 companies I represent at my trade association, + me (2nd from right). The last guy on the right is Newton to my Liebniz, or...
The Brush without the Hand
May 10, 2023
Intro This is my first installment in a few weeks not written on the road or immediately after getting home from biz travel, for which I’m thankful but . . ....
Ticketed Passengers Only Beyond This Point
May 3, 2023
Intro I got back from a business trip this morning. I landed around 4:30 a.m. in Newark after 36 hours in San Diego. It was almost just airport-hotel-...
No Geography
April 26, 2023
Intro [This began as an Instagram post, but transformed] On November 12, 2019 I stayed in the Historic Hotel Bethlehem in Bethlehem, PA for a client event...
Witness
April 19, 2023
Intro I’d like to write about something else this week, but I can’t. The guest I was going to record with on Saturday, Michael Denneny, was dead in his...
Trainwriting
April 12, 2023
Intro I’m on a train to Washington for some afternoon lobbying visits. The wifi’s awful today (it’s been better recently), so no idea when I’ll be able to...
There Is A Light
April 5, 2023
Intro I’m going to St. Louis to see my family this weekend. I haven’t seen my brother since 2018, nor my mom since 2017. Which, when I say, “I’m a horrible...
Cave, Man
March 29, 2023
Intro “[L]ife is mostly spent putting ourselves back together. But hopefully in new & interesting ways. For me that is what the creative process is . . . the...
Spelunking
March 21, 2023
Intro Last Saturday I watched 20,000 Days On Earth, the 2014 doc about Nick Cave. I don’t know Cave’s work, except for a song he did for the soundtrack of...
Et In Acedia Ego
March 15, 2023
Intro As a Jew, I treat the Seven Deadly Sins as a clinical curiosity, and maybe as a set of self-help/self-assessment guardrails, but as a member of...
Kerouac and Zeno and maybe next time
March 8, 2023
Intro My dad bought me a Hyundai Excel when I was in college. I ate a guardrail with it a few months into my ownership — missed a car in my blindspot on 91...
Library of Babble
March 1, 2023
Intro Thanks for the well-wishes, prayers, etc. for my pal I wrote about last week. I can’t tell you any more about that just now, but as a sign of how my...
Worry and Hope
February 22, 2023
Intro My pal John is having brain surgery today or tomorrow. He was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor last week after a seizure episode, with no real symptoms...
Tribe of Zero
February 15, 2023
Intro I attended a support group meeting a few nights ago. First time I ever did that. It was for people with stage zero chronic lymphocytic leukemia (that...
Lobby Boy
February 9, 2023
Intro I’d hardly call anything I do triumphant, but I did make my return to Capitol Hill yesterday, for a series of meetings with Congressional staff (a few...
Accept the Mystery
February 2, 2023
Intro “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing...
Capitol Idea
January 25, 2023
Intro No time for a real update this week; sorry. Yesterday I took the train to Washington, DC. This is my first trip since Feb. 28, 2020. I’m here for a...
Death & Seltzer-Bottles
January 18, 2023
Intro On Saturday, I visited the funniest cemetery ever. I had just finished recording this week’s podcast with Ross Benjamin about his new translation of...
52 Pickup
January 11, 2023
Intro My future wife & I had our second date at the Hi Life Bar & Grill on the Upper West Side. It was a Sunday, and we watched an NFL playoff game while we...
Two Gentlemen With The 'Rona
January 4, 2023
Intro Welcome to the first Substack edition of my Virtual Memories Show e-mail! I put up a post last week about why I’m trying this platform instead of...
Welcome To My Virtual Memories
December 28, 2022
Subscribe now Why Substack? Why Now? I’m Gil Roth and I’ve been making The Virtual Memories Show podcast for more than 10 years, posting weekly conversations...
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