When you get kicked around, all the time, it doesn’t make you stronger. It makes you cynical. The shift from doe-eyed excitement to jaded can happen quick. Being taken for granted. Used and abused. It all takes a toll.  But more than that, it makes you apprehensive. It changes how you meet new people and how you interact with others in […]

Somedays the relentless phauhqery (read phonetically as an expletive) of life just doesn’t seem worth it.If it’s a game, I don’t remember wanting a ticket, or even having it punched in the first place. It’s not just you.At one point or another, life is just going to get you down. But you don’t have to

The respect that allows peers, even who don’t get along, to mutually appreciate each other. Everyone’s a critic.Whether we like it or not, it’s true.And that’s okay…for the most part. Criticism isn’t the same as a critique; and is often constructed through a poor veil of jealousy. The reality of creativity is that it should

Creativity isn’t static.Neither is the industry of the business behind it. Workflow shifts.What people find interesting changes. The commercial culture we’ve grown accustomed to, has curated an economy of impulse buys.And with that has come the attention span of a Mayfly. That is not an achievement. In the shadow of Artificial Intelligence, history is at

It’s just like they say, “if at first you don’t succeed…”What the hell were you expecting?! ‘One and done’ isn’t a practical approach to getting anything meaningful accomplished. Point of fact, the term diligence indicates persistence.  First drafts aren’t final drafts. One attempt, resulting in failure, does not…should not…indicate an overall waste of time.  For crying out

In sports, if you win 3 titles in the span of four years, you are a more than a dynasty…you are a legend.  But when you lose four championships in a row …it’s called a curse.  When you’re not winning, you can name all the greats, the idols, the role models…that never got the title. You

The only difference between a struggling artist and a court jester…is that the jester has an audience. Life always seems to get in the way of goals.It’s hard to strive for hopes, when you’re struggling to make ends meet. Most people can probably identify with that.It’s not always financial, a lot of it is just time.

In sports, if you’re found to have used performance enhancing drugs, or steroids, your achievements are null and void. Then you’re banned from further competition. If it’s found out after the accolades and laurels, they are stripped from you and your name has an *asterisk placed next to it in the record books. It’s cheating.

f enough people break the rules… The rules are diluted into change.  It can be both good and bad.  It is why film is in a death spiral.  Publishing is a dumpster fire.  And art is celebrating mimicry.  The natural effect of everyone chasing the new hot thing is that it becomes a pool of

When you pick your visionary battle…Do you survey the landscape first for your hill to die on? Does it have a good view for you, or are you looking for a place for your corps to be seen? I only ask, because we’ve all got blinders on.All of us. If we are out there hoping