Sunday, June 16, 2013

A Father's Day post.

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Down the street from my parents’ house was a vacant lot surrounded by six to ten story buildings on two sides. Those buildings had no windo...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

No country for old copywriters.

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Ah. I had dinner last night with an old friend. We had worked together at "the mid-sized agency of the year," Rosenfeld and Si...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Advertising. 2013.

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There is, near the bar at the Tempus Fugit just one piece of art work besides an old ad for Pike's Ale (the ALE that won for YALE.) I...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

How to write good.

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Every so often someone asks me for advice on how to become a better writer. My standard response is usually pretty simple and includes three...
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Bad mood Wednesday.

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I suck at doing things for the sake of doing them. I suck at continuing to spin out ideas when I'm sure I have the right one. I suck...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Too much on story-telling.

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The alarm rang this morning interrupting a story I was having in my head while I slept. I swept the covers off of me, telling them a story ...
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Early morning in the Tempus Fugit.

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Last night at 4:48—about an hour earlier than I usually get up—Dame Insomnia paid me her insistent visit. She didn’t jostle or shake me. Sh...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Writing help needed.

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Over the last few decades I have been frugal enough with my money to accumulate enough money so that I need to pay someone money to help me ...
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Separation.

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One of the collapses of our age is the fall of separation. There used to be something of a wall between spheres of our lives. That wall ha...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Native advertising.

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I’m going to say it, something nobody ever says. I don’t think everything is a medium. I don’t think everyplace is a place for adve...
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