Peter Lewis
plewis.bsky.social
Peter Lewis
@plewis.bsky.social
NYC
business writing: thedrawingboard.net
other writing: medium.com/@plewis67
I understand why psychographics can be helpful in branding and marketing, but I'm not sure there's any way to explain them on a corporate earnings call without sounding like a babbling idiot

$BBWI
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“The only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of it”

from Lancelot (1977), by Walker Percy
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Hollywood is no longer a place of ermine toilet-seat covers and flagrant sin"
[Lange Lewis, 1945]
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A grim story, but the best alliterative headline that I've seen all year
October 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Nine Puzzles (2025)
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Red Spectacles (1987)
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Black Rainbow (1989)
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Identikit / The Driver's Seat (1974)
October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018)
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Apps are getting so shameless with tying other features to notification settings. Next they’ll be threatening to lose a few messages here and there, or send them to other contacts
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At this point every plural ending for "octopus" will look wrong to many readers, and what they do together can no longer be easily reported in English. I guess they knew which country to invade
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Slayground (1983)
September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Slayground (1983)
September 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Holmes eludes his satirists. He’s already the subject of his creator’s joke.”
[Lloyd Rose]
September 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
August 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fortunately for society, he reforms from a master criminal to a master detective at the end of the first story
August 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
There are many strange and forgotten detective characters, but the strangest one might be Cleek — a master of disguise who can imitate anyone just by making faces
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"The ages of the Father and of the Son are past. We have entered the age of the Holy Ghost."
[Muriel Spark]
August 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Still, here is the book."

Gladys Mitchell, 1941
August 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
memeworthy
August 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What
August 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
RIP Terence Stamp
August 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
August 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM