Cool On the Inside

Cool On the Inside

If you’re one of those people who insist on keeping time according to the strict decay of the cesium atom, slicing and dicing the temporal plane into neat little quadrants of years, months, days, hours, minutes, nanoseconds and so on and so fifth, then you’re probably...

In the Beginning…

We all have to start somewhere. For most people, their ignominious beginnings within the bowels of a corporation, law firm or nail salon are not immediately put on display and then saved in one form or another to be brought back years later at inopportune moments....

The Only Cure is Less Cowbell

Ahhhh, summer in Texas. That glorious time of year when the hills are alive with the sound of radiant barrier commercials and children drift to sleep to the sonorous chirping of fire ants. The only thing worse than June in Texas is July and August in Texas. And...
Call to Action’s Last Call

Call to Action’s Last Call

Note: This post originally appeared nearly three and a half years ago. Sadly, I think it’ll still bear repeating 30 years from now.The call to action must die. And we, fellow ad people, must kill it.How many times have you presented an ad to an account person,...
Cool On the Inside

Economy-Sizing the Holy Spirit

With the exception, I hope, of Pentecostals, the Day of Pentecost is one of those undoubtedly important days in Christendom about which most of the laity know half a thimble of diddly-squat. Which, sadly enough, is to be expected. After all, Pentecost is all about the...