Is there anything more featureless than being a white, middle-class, heterosexual American male? There’s nothing controversial for us to fight for. Our job is to do our part to keep the species moving forward, and, thanks to religion and politics…
All young people should get a blog. I don’t care whether it’s a custom-hosted blog like this one, Medium, or Tumblr, teenagers should be documenting their ideas and experiences online in long form. A friend shared an unfortunate story with…
Few things on earth are as fertile as a child’s imagination, or as fragile as a little girl’s heart. She was 7. Whenever we’d poll the family as to what we should watch on movie night, she’d say Titanic. Every…
When you get right down to it, we’re all just rats. “Look at me and how fast I can go! Join me and run fast too!” Said the rat with the big microphone spinning on the wheel. Smiling his rat…
“Today’s the fourth of July. Another June has gone by. And when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky.” – Aimee Mann, 4th of July Part of the American problem is that…
Content. It’s the new advertising. We all know why it works, so this post isn’t about that. Rather, it’s about the core concept of content. Specifically, storytelling. Anyone can place an ad. All you need is a budget. Anyone can write…
Writer. Father to daughters. Husband. Ad man. Raised by wolves. 
