When advertising tropes attack
Pardon my whining, but this is my blog, after all, and: Some ads make my life harder. Am I speaking professionally? Personally? Emotionally? Logistically? Is the ad industry getting me …
Storytime: Neurodiversity and the ad industry
Good lord, this was a tough one to write. Also a long one. Because it’s talking about neurodiversity, which can be a tough subject, and a personal one, and one …
2020: The Year That Was (Terrible)
Have you ever known someone who was just THE WORST — selfish, narcissistic, caustic, downright cruel just for fun — and then you meet their younger sibling, and they’re even …
Impeded. (In which I cast doubt on my own ability to use words)
At the risk of flattering myself: From reading my writing, you’d have no way of knowing how hard it is for me to talk. It’s not hard for me to …
Happy Blogthday to Me
One year ago, I thought, like, “Hey, I know what i’m talking about, and I have stuff to say, and people want to hear it.” And then I thought, “Okay, …
On mastery
I’m not jealous of mastery. Okay, I am a little bit. (Who wouldn’t be?) But I’m more impressed with it. And fascinated. I love watching people who are masters at …
5 pharmaceutical ad tropes that look pretty good right about now
It’s funny consuming media these days. I know I’m not the only person who does it — watches a show or sees a commercial with four un-masked people meeting up …
Everything I need to know about advertising, I learned in… advertising school. (But not really.)
Not everything. I’d say my, like, seventeen years out of college have also been thoroughly educational. But I consider myself lucky to have stumbled across advertising as a college major. …
Audience participation: This is the part of the show where we ask, “How are you doing?”
So we’re now… I don’t know, more than several days into the quarantine. I guess it varies, depending on location and on what you consider to be the start of …