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Archive for June, 2008
The streets are alive with the sound of… everything
In: Buried Treasure
20 Jun 2008The street outside your window is immersed in a twitching, crackling, pulsating cloud.
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9 Lessons I Learned from Working in a Creative Agency
In: Copywriting
20 Jun 2008Have 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 [...]
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- Tags: Agency Life, Copywriting, Writing
Quick, let me distill 200 pages down to 1 paragraph
In: Uncategorized
19 Jun 2008Have 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.
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- Tags: HYENT
Contranyms
In: Buried Treasure
13 Jun 2008Contranyms are so bad. By bad, I mean good.
Balancing Acts: What Nazis, Communists, Americans, Iran and Roger Federer have in common
13 Jun 2008Oh 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, [...]
