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In an early August blog I mentioned a consulting job which has me working for an international manufacturer of paint applicators and...
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Mark Lipton
- Sep 12
- 2 min
THE Paint Geeks!
By September 5th, 1989 the New York Yankees were sufficiently removed from playoff contention that THE team chose to use the season’s...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 30
- 2 min
You'll Miss Me!
On December 29th in 1970 President Richard Nixon signed the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act into law. Tricky Dick’s...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Unnatural Disasters
The New York Yankees lost their eighth consecutive game last night, the feat cementing THE team’s grasp on last place in the American...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 16
- 3 min
The Sounds of Silence
The explosion at the Dow chemical plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana on July 14th was so powerful it registered on a seismometer located more...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 9
- 3 min
A Very Private Benjamin
In the 1980 hit movie Private Benjamin, actress Goldie Hawn plays Judy Benjamin, a young socialite with a dream of marrying well. Which,...
Mark Lipton
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Save THE Date!
Sherwin-Williams reported earnings last week; THE largest paint manufacturer in history announcing that sales had increased 6.3% during...
Mark Lipton
- Jul 26
- 2 min
Pass Me a Pen?
Among the most abiding memories of life as the son of a paint dealer, was the wad of bills omnipresent in my father’s front pant pocket....
Mark Lipton
- Jul 19
- 3 min
One Less Giant
Driving home from a day behind the counter of my father’s paint store just weeks into THE job, I glimpsed a warehouse with its door ajar....
Mark Lipton
- Jul 11
- 3 min
There's a Party Going On!
The New York Yankees stumbled into Major League Baseball’s All-Star break this week losing two of their final three-games before reaching...
Mark Lipton
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Get Some Sleep!
Rock and roll legend Steve Miller landed his big-old Jet Airliner in Connecticut last weekend; the Gangster of Love performing a...
Mark Lipton
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Happy Father'$ Day!
My 25-year-old daughter Miranda, the former Buck Wheat and only remaining reason for a Lipton Father’s Day celebration, invited me to...
Mark Lipton
- Jun 13
- 2 min
I'll Show You Mine!
Leaving the hospital for the third-time in six-weeks my mother expressed her frustration with an unrelenting disorder ravaging her golden...
Mark Lipton
- Jun 5
- 2 min
Gravity One, Paint Nothing!
Spend your career moving an incalculable number of cans of paint and it’s likely you’ll retire with stories of spills; an independent...
Mark Lipton
- May 30
- 2 min
What's a Parent to Do?
My daughter Miranda called me last week. The phones ringing raising immediate concerns considering THE kid and her generation’s...
Mark Lipton
- May 24
- 2 min
How Much is Regal?
If you were born on November 2, 1953 your father likely paid $.27 per gallon for the gas he used to fire-up the Studebaker and run your...
Mark Lipton
- May 17
- 3 min
They Aced It!
Benjamin Moore CEO Dan Calkins was interviewed on CNBC recently live from the floor of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting....
Mark Lipton
- May 10
- 3 min
How Smart We Talkin'?
Life’s pace returned to an amble last week after several spent in sprint mode; the added velocity a result of our efforts to keep the...
Mark Lipton
- May 3
- 3 min
THE Switcheroo!
As with most large cities my current home of Stamford, Connecticut is comprised of a multitude of neighborhoods, each leaving their own...
Mark Lipton
- Apr 23
- 2 min
Won't Be Long Now
I’ve blogged previously of the equally immutable and poisonous facts of paint manufacturing: the process' dependence on petro-chemical...
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