My Uninformed and Premature Analysis of the ALMS/Grand-Am Merger
My Uninformed and Premature Analysis of the ALMS/Grand-Am Merger
Big news brewing for tomorrow, Wednesday the 5th, about the state of American sportscar racing. For years now (11, I think, but this is off the cuff and I’m too lazy to look right now), there’s been a schism in the American sportscar racing scene, between the 24 Hours of Le Mans-affiliated American Le Mans [...]
September 04th, 2012 read more
Marketing Lessons From the Aquababe
Written for Kaleidico.com – July 31, 2012 Music’s a mess these days. Has been since Napster hit the scene back in 1999, back in the day. There’s vast amounts of music out there, and almost none of it is any good. Problem is, the collective appetite for music globally is going absolutely stratospheric. But this [...]
July 31st, 2012 read more
Henry Rollins on Escaping Your Metaphorical Häagen-Dazs
Written for Kaleidico.com – July 19, 2012 One of the first things we caught this fantastic video from The Big Think, featuring author/actor/poet/punk rock legend/tattoo enthusiast and overall icon Henry Rollins. If there were a decathlon for modern male badassery, Rollins would have more gold medals than the Michaels Phelps and Johnson combined. The man has become his [...]
July 19th, 2012 read more
Jakoma Machok
I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing Jakoma Machok, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, for our project TravelsofJohn. Jakoma and I talked about his life’s experiences – losing 16 of 18 siblings to genocide at age 5, fleeing across a crocodile-infested river under gunfire from the Ethiopian Army at age 9, and [...]
January 19th, 2011 read more
getting it exactly right
Two nights ago, I had the most singularly perfect meal I can remember. The glorious thing was the realization halfway through the meal that it was shaping up to be exactly that. As such, my date and I had the self-awareness to slow down, soak in the experience and savor every last bit of food, [...]
July 23rd, 2010 read more
audacity vs. willful asininity in marketing
The stakes are high for automakers trying to sell in America. With a marketplace of several hundred million potential buyers, you don’t have to look far afield before running into some advertisement for a car. Some of them are good, some are questionable, but the vast majority just breeze through our consciousness – perhaps leaving [...]
June 11th, 2010 read more
on obscure (and I’d bet, effective) plans
So it’s been a while since I wrote anything for my blog, but I got a healthy dose of inspiration from this past weekend, when I attended the American Le Mans Series finale at Laguna Seca. Happily, M+C clients Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won the race in their GT2-class Porsche, in a pretty intense [...]
October 13th, 2009 read more
the value in not taking yourself too seriously
Fantastic story this weekend out of Misano, in Italy, where Valentino Rossi won in MotoGP and continues to storm to his umpteenth world championship. For those not in the know, Rossi’s one of the best characters in racing – sports of any kind, really – and he pulled off a fantastic self-deprecating trick this weekend [...]
September 07th, 2009 read more
taking the annoying out of sharing music
So, last time around I alluded to a new project that M+C is taking on, and I’m very excited to announce its’ imminent launch. My friends (and maybe some colleagues) know that I’m very passionate about music – have been since I was in high school. People in my generation have had a rough go [...]
September 03rd, 2009 read more
on music
One of the areas of interest that I’ve got, both professionally and personally, is music. Certainly, as a consumer of music, I consider myself an aficionado, and it’s been a pretty topsy-turvy industry for God knows how long. I had a really interesting exchange with Sam Valenti IV, scion/patriarch/H.N.I.C. of Ghostly International, the stellar record [...]
August 28th, 2009 read more