The Man I'd Like to Smell Like.
Things don’t always go as planned. Life is funny like that. You start planning out how you think it’s going to go and life totally farts...
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Working on weed.
I never thought I’d see the day when you could just walk into a store and buy marijuana. It’s still pretty weird that this stuff is legal...
Fire at will.
There’re a lot of really shitty things that companies can do to you. Thankfully, the last five years or so has finally seen a lot of...
In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure.
I did something the other day that I haven’t done in almost two years. I booked a flight for Thanksgiving. Over the course of the...
Prom Season. And the day the music died.
Because I’ve lived in so many places, I have friends all over the country. And it seems like lately they’re all saying the same thing....
Fuck pride. It only hurts, it never helps.
We fade up on Butch Coolidge, a white 26 year old prizefighter. Butch sits at a table wearing a red and blue high school athletic jacket....
Cameron finally comes clean.
I’ve got a theory about Cameron Day. It’s just a theory. Which means, of course, that it could be wrong. But never-the-less here it is. I...
Macaque Monkeys. Slasher films. Porn and much more.
Some people say that the discovery of mirror neurons in macaque monkeys is among the most important biological discoveries of the last...
I'm not a Teams Player
My life is noisy. I used to like noise and make quite a bit of it with guitars and stereos and things like that. But now I like things a...
What is big? How I got into advertising.
It was about 30 years ago that I applied to the Texas Creative Program at the University of Texas and began my journey to advertising...
Humbled and honored.
I follow advertising like most people follow sports. And since there’s no ESPN for advertising (yet), it is left to the dedicated...
My Friday night lights.
If you’ve ever seen the movie Friday Night Lights, then you know what a big deal high school football is in Texas. The movie didn’t...
400 E. Randolph. Butterflies and urban skies.
Butterfly, butterfly. Wings on an urban sky. You get so high. Yeah, you get so high. In the urban sky. Sweet butterfly. When I got my...
Bodges. Skips. Faffing around.
For some reason, I’ve built up a bit of a following in the UK. Maybe it’s the Monty Python reference in the Kingdom of Failure logo. I...
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. Life lessons from The Godfather.
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who say The Godfather is their favorite movie of all time. And those who don’t. I am...
The Grateful Dead weren't musical geniuses. They were marketing geniuses.
When I was about 13, my mom and dad took us all to Colorado on a ski trip. Growing up in Houston, I had never seen snow or mountains...
The power of negativity.
Just as there can be no light without darkness, no love without hate, and no victory without defeat; so too can there be no Kingdom of...
The most creative city in America.
I grew up in Houston and got my first ad job in Chicago. There are two kinds of people who grow up in Texas. The ones who never leave and...
Falling down. The movie. The metaphor. And the consequences of gravity.
I think most people can agree that Michael Douglas will be most famously remembered for his role as Gordon Gecko in the movie, Wall...
What happens in Brazil does not stay in Brazil. That shit comes home with you.
I was at my first job in Detroit and I was doing well. I had gotten lucky with some work that won a few awards and got me a little press....