I'm going to do something I haven't done in close to ten years. I'm posting a TV spot I wrote and actually got produced. Bu...

"You've been extended." When you're a freelancer, as I have been for the last 16 years, those are perhaps the three sw...

Last week a friend of a high school buddy called me out on Facebook. He said, and I quote... "You're a blazing fucking asshole...

I might be the world's worst Doomsday Prepper. Which is odd considering I've made a career in advertising and lived through a tho...

I'm afraid America is missing the boat. The Lamestream Media, with their communist partners in the Democratic Party and their pinko...

Last week, there was a little game floating around Facebook and social media. It didn't catch on like other very popular frivolities ...

A few weeks ago I found myself sitting in on a focus groups. Something I haven't done in a long, long while. Though I have written ex...

It's been said there are hundreds of ways to prove the Pythagorean Theory. For those of you who were not math geeks in high school, a...

Editorial Note: I had written a different piece for today, but since I am somewhat gainfully employed in a period of time when nobody is,...

If you're like me you found yourself writing out a check to our federal government today. It was the last day of the coronavirus insp...

My wife and I are now both at that same delicate age, 44, when we are subjected to a ton of pharmaceutical advertising. Ads that once pim...

Some of you may recall my tale of customer dissatisfaction with the Omaha Steak Company. To recap, my daughter, very thoughtfully, purcha...

Last week, in between the creation of new Trump memes and the hourly checking of our total us debt at usdebtclock.org , I found myself ch...

Recently I received a private email, congratulating me on my relentless pursuit of imperfection, referring of course to my non stop assau...

Today I'd like to revisit an old Pet Peeve of mine. This is hardly new to readers of this blog. I often rehash old Pet Peeves. That...

As many readers of R17 know, I have been working quite regularly lately. I'm heading into the third month of a three month contract. ...

Like many of you in the advertising industry, I have been looking for an exit plan. My own, not one imposed on me. After all, there are...

Came across this stunning photo of Central Park the other day. I see pictures of NYC every other day on social media, but this one struck...