• A Great Day…to Stand.

    January 11, 2009

    This is a :30 spot we created for the Obama campaign in the summer of 2008. With no budget. In light of our historic accomplishment, I thought it might be
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  • Just a Dog

    November 28, 2010

    I wrote this post a year ago about one of the toughest days of my life. ♥ When I rolled out of bed Tuesday morning, my wife Tina called me
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  • Creativity v. Innovation

    September 13, 2011

    A man and woman have sex, and we are brought into the world on a spark of electricity, slapped on the ass and told that we are unique. And we
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  • The Stages of Twitter

    January 29, 2012

    If you’ve been paying any attention, you notice patterns of stages that we all go through when it comes to Twitter. At first we don’t get it. We don’t understand
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  • Butterfly

    January 26, 2012

    After a tough day at work – wait, I need to stop right there. I run the marketing arm of a small, but growing business. It’s not hard. I used
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  • The Hourglass

    January 20, 2012

    As parents, we see our kids all the time – but don’t really see them at all. It’s the woods for the trees phenomenon. Or, if you like, being too
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  • The Fine Line Between Politics and Comedy

    January 19, 2012

    It’s time to light a rescue fire in the letters SOS. Also, there’s this: Maybe this is why I can’t take Republican politicians seriously this election. *** Jim Mitchem

  • The Simple Solution to SOPA

    January 18, 2012

    I wrote this post on Wednesday, and by Friday SOPA was dead. Congratulations to everyone who fussed. On Friday I actually received an email from my congressman Larry Kissell after
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  • Art and War and SOPA

    Everyone’s favorite acronym, SOPA, takes center stage this week as potentially hundreds of websites ‘go black’  to protest controversial legislation that could mean censorship of the Internet. At the heart
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  • Horny

    January 16, 2012

    There’s a horn growing out of my head. It started about a month ago with what felt like a dry patch of skin at my hairline above my right temple.
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  • Death to Routines

    January 14, 2012

    I woke up this morning like I do most Saturdays, with a bed full of girls. We talked and laughed and before getting up for the day, I said something
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  • Sex

    January 10, 2012

    Until I was eighteen, sex meant using my imagination and a JC Penny catalog. But then things changed. And for the next six years I enjoyed the company, and the
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