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The secret to my success.

Sometimes it seems like home is just the place most far away. There are very few absolutes in life. Nothing is a sure thing. And the...

What up, Doe?

The Rolling Stones played here in Detroit, this week. I didn’t go to the show. I’m still avoiding large gatherings. Plus, I’m not a huge...

A horrible mistake.

I made a horrible mistake, I did. This morning I got out of bed. That was my folly. A disastrous blunder for which I’ll be punished...

Stop trying to save the planet.

As an experienced, highly trained marketing professional—I am especially sensitive to what is and isn’t good messaging. I’m sure you’re...

Success seeker or failure avoider?

"Once I rose above the noise and confusion. Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion. I was soaring ever higher. But I flew too high."...

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...

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...

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