{"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":6006,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/overpaying-for-it","url_meta":{"origin":6027,"position":0},"title":"Overpaying for it","author":"Gil","date":"May 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Methinks someone in J.Crew's color-naming department has a sense of humor: If they start selling a Peat Bag soon, I'll know something is up. (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":5337,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/weakly-may-7-blame-it-on-the-ame","url_meta":{"origin":6027,"position":1},"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. Part 1 is over here and part 2 is over there. Now, where did I put part 3? Oh, it's right here! Part 4? 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