{"id":6027,"date":"2011-06-07T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2011-06-07T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T11:47:46","slug":"you-could-do-this-or-you-could-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-could-do-this-or-you-could-do-that","title":{"rendered":"You could do this, or you could do that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;d like to write about this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TCAF 2011 \/ Toronto writeup, with all sorts of great comics-anecdotes<\/li>\n<li>Visit to Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Met (with side trip down to the Frick)<\/li>\n<li>TCAF 2010 writeup (boy, did I let that one slide)<\/li>\n<li>Commentary on <em>The Leopard<\/em> and <em>The Godfather<\/em><\/li>\n<li>More about seeing <em>Arcadia <\/em>on Broadway last March<\/li>\n<li>A really self-indulgent post about menswear<\/li>\n<li>Ruminations on my trip to Germany next October<\/li>\n<li>Cute story from last year&#8217;s Passover trip to St. Louis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I will be writing this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6\/4 &#8211; Teva &#8211; 1050 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/5 &#8211; Johnson &amp; Johnson &#8211; 1100 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/6 &#8211; AstraZeneca &#8211; 1100 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/7 &#8211; Boehringer-Ingelheim &#8211; 400 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/8 &#8211; Bristol-Myers Squibb &#8211; 1100 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/9 &#8211; Novo Nordisk &#8211; 1000 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/10 &#8211; Bayer Schering &#8211; 450 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/11 &#8211; Amgen &#8211; 1000 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/12 &#8211; Abbott &#8211; 1100 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/13 &#8211; Novartis &#8211; 1350 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/14 &#8211; GlaxoSmithKline &#8211; 1250 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/15 &#8211; Lilly &#8211; 1100 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/16 &#8211; Merck &#8211; 1250 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/17 &#8211; Biogen Idec &#8211; 400 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/18 &#8211; Merck Serono &#8211; 400 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/20 &#8211; Pfizer &#8211; 1500 words (I&#8217;m giving myself a day off on the 19th)<\/li>\n<li>6\/21 &#8211; Roche\/Genentech &#8211; 1250 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/22 &#8211; Takeda &#8211; 850 words<\/li>\n<li>6\/23 &#8211; Sanofi &#8211; 1250 words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which is to say, it&#8217;s time for my Top 20 Pharma \/ Top 10 Biopharma annual issue!\u00a0Yes, it&#8217;s that regimented, because the Tops issue needs to be wrapped up before July 4th weekend, and I&#8217;ll be at the BIO conference June 27-30. Thank gosh I now have an art department to do my layouts.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and my associate editor is doing 3 of the writeups, and companies 17-20 and 7-10 in pharma and biopharma don&#8217;t get full profile-writeups, in case you&#8217;re countng.)<\/p>\n<p>(Plus I&#8217;ll need to transcribe about 3 hours of interviews for a series of Q&amp;A sidebars. What do you think I&#8217;ll be doing on those days with the 400-word writeups?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;d like to write about this month: TCAF 2011 \/ Toronto writeup, with all sorts of great comics-anecdotes Visit to Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Met (with side trip down to the Frick) TCAF 2010 writeup (boy, did I let that one slide) Commentary on The Leopard and The Godfather More about seeing Arcadia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-could-do-this-or-you-could-do-that\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You could do this, or you could do that&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1zd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5337,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/weakly-may-7-blame-it-on-the-ame","url_meta":{"origin":6027,"position":0},"title":"Weakly &#8211; May 7: Blame It on the Ame","author":"Gil","date":"May 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[This is the fifth in a series of long-ass rambling posts about my travels in Chicago and Toronto from May 3-9. 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(I still haven't gotten around to writing about our TCAF weekend, but you should go read Chester Brown's new book, Paying For It.)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comic books &amp; strips&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comic books &amp; strips","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1770460489","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1360,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/shoot-first-writeup-later","url_meta":{"origin":6027,"position":3},"title":"Shoot first, writeup later","author":"Gil","date":"February 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My pictures from Seattle are up at Flickr! 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