I attended the retirement soirée for Neal Fossen today, my long time print rep and friend from Quebecor (later to become Worldcolor). I’ve known Neal for at least 13 years now and he is my favorite small ‘c’ conservative ever. We had many a lunchtime conversation and I hope to have many more.

As well he is one of my favorite colleagues. He never shovelled me no shit and always was accomodating to our idiosyncratic methodologies. And that’s saying alot in an industry of commision sales. He’s still around but the world isn’t likely to see many like him in the future.