Thursday, December 17, 2009
nothing, nothing, nothing at all compares to the smell of boot leather it’s the smell of pains-taking
Saturday, December 12, 2009
I had an Italian professor who taught me an interesting phrase – l’arte d’arrangiarsi. Most commonly, it means, the art of getting by, and it’s considered a helpful knack to have in life. I think, however, many people have that flying by the seat of my pants part of life down pretty well. It’s easy [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Winter crouched on the outskirts of town, making eyes involuntarily dart toward the northwestern horizon, wary of its approach. It spun through town like some mad faerie dance troupe trailing eddies of wind and frost, waiting around corners, slapping passersby in the face and making their guts squirm inside their coats. Dan and Laura packed [...]
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He could smell it out in the hallway, their cold weather ritual. Not so much a meal as the byproduct of fewer trips into the cold for shopping – and thus a reliance on the winter stores of starches, canned goods and ice-chunked bagged vegetables lining the back corners of the cupboards and bottom of the [...]
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
“If you’re looking for an exercise bike, one that’s going to keep you coming back, I have something you’re gonna love.” Pause. Pique his interest. And turn, reveal. “Tunturi Amerec. It’s made in Finland. See, says so right there, Finnish quality. How’s that?” The mark looked at the bike. Slight breath, scratched his cheek. His [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Dan spends a lot of time thinking about helium tanks. It’s hard not to; half his job is refilling them. Watch the empties come back in. Hook them up to compression. Watch them go back out. It’s not that he has any particular affinity for the work – or for the gas itself. What brings [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
It’s been too long since I updated. I was actually too scared to even look at the date on my last post. But I think I deserve a little slack, both because of what’s been going on and what I’m about to do, dear readers. First, the what’s been going on: I left my old [...]
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I’ve always assumed creativity was a function of arrested development – of retaining the higher risk tolerance and imagination of childhood. Why else would creative people make logical leaps others didn’t consider? I’ve always said complacency was the world’s biggest creativity killer. Why else would creative people chafe so much at the yoke of sameness? [...]
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The best days are the ones where we come up with an idea that makes people scratch their heads and ask, “How the hell are we going to do this?” or, “Aren’t there any case studies that we can show?” This job is about novel communications. When we do something that doesn’t have directions already [...]
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Tagged Advertising, case study, cautionary tale, communication, direction, novelty
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After about nine months of pretending it didn’t exist, I finally got back around to working on my Web site. I pretty much wasted all day Sunday making things a lot harder than they needed to be. Then I broke down, decided to be completely unoriginal and bastardize a wonderful iWeb theme for my purposes. [...]
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