Just Asking

Where else can several thousand of us meet in the same place? To meet and discuss, to make new friends and enemies, to be inspired and jealous, to be ashamed by our shortcomings and to aspire to be better. It is ugly and beautiful at the same time, and that is perfect. —Benjamin Palmer, co-founder and president, The Barbarian Group, Boston

I’m afraid it conflicts with a competing festival in Nutley, N.J.

Well, it’s one of those rare occasions where you get to see a true world stage of creative thinking, and it can be a great motivator when you see a campaign that makes you go, “Damn, I wish I’d done that.”