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Daniel Pink is a classmate of mine from Northwestern. I've been looking forward to his newest book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, billed as the first American business book done entirely in manga. As if that weren't genre-twisting enough, Dan's ordered up a video trailer for his book ... and it kicks ass. Watch it for yourself and see if you don't agree.
1. Michael Jackson tributes. The funeral was over-the-top and worldwide -- but so was he. The streetmobs in New York, London and New Orleans paying tribute to the King of Pop were great. And no, I don't think it was an overreaction to blow out four days of cable TV on a slow-news summer weekend to cover his death, or his funeral on daytime TV -- Oprah's on vacation, for heaven's sake! He was an entertainer who filled countless hours of prime-time television from "The Ed Sullivan Show" to that weird Martin Bashir expose. Seen that way, this was a proportionate coda to a singular career.
