Despite what anybody might tell you, I live well within my means. I drive a 10 year old used car. Some of the shirts in my closet are o...

Johnny Carson once defined a New York Minute as the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you layin...

I love Wieden & Kennedy. I have always admired their work, their unwillingness to talk down to consumers and their unconventional a...

Normally, at this point in the year, I step away from the keyboard, give myself time to recharge the batteries and leave the readers of R...

I've often said it's harder to do crappy work than it is to do the good stuff. And if you've had the breadth of assignments I...

As we are on the cusp of Christmas Eve it seemed appropriate to do a post about religion. When it comes to religion, faithful R17 readers...

Why on earth am I luring you onto my blog with a picture of Charlotte McKinney and a mammoth sized 1300 calorie bacon and cheeseburger fr...

Last week, AgencySpy, the industry's leading and most honest mouthpiece, ran a link to one of my posts, 50 Reasons Why Advertising in...

As you might have guessed I have many friends who maintain wordy, unread, unimportant blogs like this one. Oh we pretend we're like...

You know who thanks God for the US electoral college? Jesus. That's right. Because if it weren't for the clear-thinking 46.2%...

Santa's not the only one making a list and checking it twice. Last week glassdoor.com, refuge of the desperate white collar worker,...

You might think that with my yearly postings about the caganer and my equally numerous writings about dog shit and the shit-for-brain do...

About a year ago, my good friend and colleague Mike Folino (self-styled World's Greatest Freelance Copywriter) told me that I should ...

Last week my daughters were home for Thanksgiving. As one of them was rummaging through the drawer full of CD's and DVD's, vestig...

Been thinking about who we are and what we do lately. We're not artists. If we were true poets and painters, we'd be writing so...

Last week Business Insider magazine printed their 2016 list of the 16 Richest White Jowly Men in Advertising . If that's not grist fo...

Last week the hard drive on my 6 year old iMac crashed. It crashed hard. I took it to the Genius Bar and had the tech guy run some diag...

Considering my longstanding membership in the Tribe, you might find it strange, but I too have Christmas traditions. As in year's ...

Like you, I go through the newsfeed on Facebook. I scan through all the latest news on Linkedin. And I enjoy the guilty pleasures of Agen...

I read the newspaper the other day. I know that's hardly the most searing lead in I've ever written but it is depressingly news...