Martin Cracks the Walmart Nut

Martin Cracks the Walmart Nut

Once upon a time, in a city far, far away, I worked on the Walmart account. At that time, Walmart had been running their Real People spots for over 20 years, and I was but one creative cog of many to be plugged into the machine over the years. As creatives, our goal...
What Type of Idle Chatter Fan are You?

What Type of Idle Chatter Fan are You?

Note: For the May 2011 issue of Chatter magazine, the staff produced a type of choose-your-own-adventure thread that led through the editorial. In keeping with this theme, my back-of-the-mag column became a flowchart. Because flowcharts are trendy these days and...
Requiem for a Wonderdog

Requiem for a Wonderdog

He wasn’t even my dog. He was my parents’ dog, the first to be solely theirs after the passing of Boomer, the dog we brought home from the animal shelter a month after I turned nine years old in 1981. Boomer had lived a good life by any measure of canine...

When Ferry Met Bella

I’ve loved Porsche cars since I was 13 years old. Our neighbor at the time was a dentist, and he made the wise decision to trade in some root canal graft (and an ’84 Corvette) for a silver 944 Turbo – a model that debuted that year. It was, without a...