“MY DAD USED TO BE IN A BAND. THE ROLLING STONES. YOU HEARD OF THEM?” No, I hadn’t heard of them. Nor had I heard of “Uncle Mick”. Mick Jagger that is. I was ten years old. I’d heard of Abba! My new pal’s name was Julian. His dad was…

Work back from the ideal. I never subscribed to the notion that great ideas come from inspiration. In a flash. Like in the movies. As someone who has spent 28 years now banging my head against various walls for various brands, I had to come up with a process that…

Marlon Brando’s Monkey is Dead. Inside the creation of the most popular advertising campaign ever. In a small conference room on the 42nd floor of a Chicago skyscraper, my new boss uttered the words “Well, Marlon Brando’s monkey is dead” to a bunch of dudes whose job it was to…

The greatest Budweiser ad never sold. I spent years creating ads for Budweiser and Bud Light. Day in, day out. Thinking of funny shit to put on the Super Bowl, basically. And i must have come up, no exaggeration, ten billion ideas for the brands. And since I am not…

A heartwarming story for everyone who loves Quentin Crisp. This is the story of how I inadvertently caused English gay literary icon and all round troublemaker Quentin Crisp to be the subject of yet more homophobic slurs in public. All my fault. …

ALL DRESSED UP AND NOWHERE TO MARCH. AN IRISH IMMIGRANT’S TRUMP PROTEST WARDROBE. I immigrated to the USA in1990 from London. I had gone to London after graduating from college in my native Ireland. And while there, I got a letter from the US Embassy in Dublin telling me I’d…