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Ode to Agatha Rose – Personal Reflection on 9/11
August 31, 2011
Note: I wrote the following on September 16, 2001. Time heals all wounds. Almost. My daughter cries a few feet from where my wife and I embrace. It’s been five
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This Revolution Brought to you by Toyota
August 26, 2011
You can’t watch a movie these days that isn’t laden with product placement. Whether someone is using an Apple computer (they almost always are), drinking a Coke or fumbling for
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The Genius of Steve Jobs
August 25, 2011
For as long as I’ve been a copywriter, I’ve worked around designers who touted Apple products. For years I blew them off as dogmatic brand ambassadors. I was a writer
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Suffering the Bullshit
August 23, 2011
With two days left before school starts, I’m inclined to run away with my kids to an island where we can be left to wonder, without the world shoving its
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Another Snickers Gem
August 20, 2011
Advertising is intended to do one thing – get you to remember something long enough to take action. It’s all about memorability and recall. Make your advertising entertaining, cast and
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Creepy Sexy: Farewell to the Burger King
August 19, 2011
Today, Burger King put the creepy King on the guillotine. And you cheered. You didn’t like creepy King. You said he was soulless. Plasticky. But that is precisely why I loved
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Soldiering On
August 10, 2011
And the people we voted for fought against each other because, well, that’s what we do in this land of opportunity where the rich exist on a plane so far above
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Birthdays Here
August 7, 2011
Before social media, each year on my birthday I’d get one card mailed to me from my mother and a call from her brother. Of course my wife and I
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