I wasn’t going to share this because I don’t know what good it does. Does it really matter? Or is it just shock value that we forget the second the video is over? Does sharing make even the slightest difference…
The garbage truck came today. Like it does every Tuesday. A black man in a white truck pulled in front of our house, reached out with a mechanical claw, grabbed our bin, lifted it high into the air, and dumped…
On Super Bowl Sunday afternoon I took my wife to see Silver Linings Playbook (meh.) This spot aired before the show. I think it may have beaten the Clydesdale. *** Jim Mitchem
You’re born with one desire – love. And you’ve got nothing to give to the world. Not yet, anyway. As a child you’re just ‘the future.’ What that means in America is that ‘one day you’ll provide value to the…
Riding into work today I passed a red billboard with yellow type that said, “I start my day at $1.” It was for McDonald’s dollar menu. I thought about how clever the copywriter thought this line was, and how it…
The other night, I had a dream. I was driving to work when my car died right near the Charlotte Country Club. I’d passed the exclusive club hundreds of times, but never had a reason to go in. I’d given…
Writer. Father to daughters. Husband. Ad man. Raised by wolves. 
