A few weeks ago as we were driving through downtown Charlotte at night, my daughter Cozette (9) said, “I wish I could go to the top of that building at night.” as she gazed wondrously at the Duke Energy Center with its colorful LED lights that runs its vertical length and connects at the top. I immediately took out my phone and DM’d my friend Lisa Hoffmann who works in the Duke building. I explained Cozette’s wish, and we made secret arrangements…
One thing I’ve always loved about Twitter is that it forces brevity. Not unlike writing advertising. Be quick or be dead, and all that. Last December I published a post of some of my most favorite ‘favorited’ tweets from 2012, and though i’d try it again this year. So without further delay, here is chronological proof that I follow some pretty clever bastards. Many of whom are fellow copywriters. Thanks for keeping it interesting, y’all. Passive Voice, you are hated…
I grew up around guns. My stepfather kept one in his car’s glove compartment. That is, until the night a drunken neighbor shot a policeman responding to a call. After that, everyone’s stepfathers kept their guns in closets. For a while. I got a BB gun for Christmas when I was 10, and remember going out with my uncle that day to hunt birds. He mustn’t have thought I could actually hit one, so off we went hunting birds in…
I wrote the following piece as an extension of this tweet. It was a perfect late afternoon in early summer. Hope Baker was tending to a bed of yellow roses in the front of her house. In a few moments, her husband would be home and she had a special dinner planned – complete with a centerpiece of fresh cut flowers. Their daughter Michelle was on her way to Arizona for a job interview, and so they had the house all…
Not if you don’t believe, he’s not. So my advice to you is to believe. Believe in things you can’t see. Believe in things that defy logic. Believe in the power of love to change the world. Believe in your feelings, emotions, and gut. Believe in the impossible and the improbable. Believe in God, and magic, and most of all, yourself. Believe that every day you wake to face the world, miracles will happen. Believe. Believe with all your heart…
It starts when Gaza lobs a garbage can filled with dynamite into Israel, and Israel responds with laser-guided missiles. Iraq sympathizes with the plight of the Palestinians and allows Iran to march its army right through to Syria where they attack Israel from the east, while Egypt attacks from the south. The US and England join an alliance with Turkey to head off Iran and Syria from the north. Meanwhile, oil-starved China seizes an opportunity for energy independence, buys all…
