Author: Jim Mitchem

Overcome, by Live, was written before the events of 9/11/2001, but quickly became a lasting anthem to the idea of love, in the face of fear. *** Jim Mitchem

And summer ends the way it began – with blue-lipped children who are 3-months older, but who are in the same denial about the water’s chill. Goodbye summer.

This morning I made a comment on a blog that resulted in some strange and beautiful private dialogue. First, here's the blog.  For those who don't know them, Wray Ward owns 'advertising' in Charlotte. Sure, there are a couple of other agencies that bill MANY tens of millions annually, but WW is pretty much synonymous with advertising in Charlotte. That's all I know about them. I once interviewed there, but nothing ever came from it. Which is cool in retrospect…

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Gas grill? We don't do no stinking gas grill.  Filmed by me on the iphone. The part about not dropping the phone, that's the Copperfield-ish part.  Jim is a father, husband, copywriter and founder of smashcommunications. You can find him on Twitter @smashadv