The streets are alive with the sound of… everything
Posted by Matt | Filed under Buried Treasure
The street outside your window is immersed in a twitching, crackling, pulsating cloud.
9 Lessons I Learned from Working in a Creative Agency
Posted by Matt | Filed under Copywriting
Have faith in your coworkers, but don’t trust them. At a creative agency, you’re surrounded by talented people. Designers, writers, account executives, traffic coordinators and the rest. In a perfect world, everyone in your chain of command is smart, capable and insightful. But, as a writer, whenever I send corrections back to the designer it [...]
Tags: Agency Life, Copywriting, Writing
Quick, let me distill 200 pages down to 1 paragraph
Posted by Matt | Filed under Uncategorized
Have you ever noticed that:
“Executive Summary” is just a fancy word for “gist?” Come on guys, at least call it an abstract. Or an overview. Or just a summary. “Executive Summary” has always struck me as an inside joke, kind of like the Wilhelm Scream.
Tags: HYENT
Contranyms
Posted by Matt | Filed under Buried Treasure
Contranyms are so bad. By bad, I mean good.
Balancing Acts: What Nazis, Communists, Americans, Iran and Roger Federer have in common
Posted by Matt | Filed under Geekery, Miscellany
Oh dear, I’ve gone and violated Godwin’s Law. At least I got it out of the way early, which was unavoidable as the entire point of this post is a review I read of Pat Buchanan’s new book. The former Nixon Adviser/former presidential candidate/current MSNB correspondent hops aboard the World War II revisionism short bus, [...]
