Esquire<\/em> cover, too). So let’s end this week’s installment of Unrequired Reading with 6 minutes of Dylan & Lois’ genius:<\/p>\nOne more week to go on my crazy work-schedule, and then I can lapse into a 3-day coma! 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, an art book by famous adman & Esquire<\/em> cover designer George Lois. I flipped through the pages and discovered that Lois directed one of my favorite music videos, Bob Dylan’s Jokerman (1983). (Which makes the frames of Ali-as-St.-Sebastian an in-joke, since Lois designed that Esquire<\/em> cover, too). So let’s end this week’s installment of Unrequired Reading with 6 minutes of Dylan & Lois’ genius:<\/p>\n