I’ve stopped checking the New York Times COVID Tracker every morning. I’ve stopped looking at every little bit of COVID news, and trying to read the tea leaves about how tiny COVID changes might impact events moving forward. The reason why is simple. At some point last month, there was a fundamental change in people, […]
March, 2020. I was standing at the baggage carousel at BWI Airport, waiting for my luggage to drop from my Birmingham flight. I’d just finished the Bassmaster Classic, a green screen experiential photo marketing event we do every year. I glanced up at the CNN news loop on the flat screen above, and thought, “Wow, […]
Everyday, I woke up sad. Every. Single. Day. This is not me. I am not sad. I am never depressed. Even during the hardest times in my life, there was never an overwhelming cloud of doom descending every morning when my conscious brain would start to revive. But every morning, as wake glimmered, pushing sleep […]
The cat meowed next to me, tired of being in the carrying case, tired of riding in the car. The meowing became more and more intense. He threw his body against the door of the crate, clawed at his sheepskin pad, howled at the top of his little cat lungs. His crate was perched on […]
Las Vegas was hot. The sun beat down on my rental van as I pulled in front of the Mandalay Bay convention center glass doors. I had about 400 lbs of equipment in the back of the SUV, and the hike from the door, past the aquarium, up the little grade, to either elevator or […]
Chapter 1: From film to the internet The year was 2005, and Flckr was an infant. The internet was clunky, and America Online popular. MySpace hadn’t taken the world by storm. Facebook had just started, but nobody knew about it. Wire services ruled the news media, along with a handful of broadcast networks. Fox News […]
As COVID-19 continues to murder the event industry, we are all watching more television. For me, I’m addicted to two shows: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Project Runway. Both contest-centered shows remind me of my dad’s most important rule of business: “If they want crap, give them crap.” (I’ve actually changed the quote slightly to make […]
Last week, I was interviewed for a Podcast by Ahron Glazer, Chief Marketing Officer at Executive Media Solutions. It was a fun conversation! It’s a little strange watching yourself be interviewed for an hour, but I got a lot out of our talk. Take a listen and let me know your thoughts. One part of […]
It took me one year to learn how to play the theme for Star Wars on my piano. I was twelve. I’d look at the music notes on the page, and it might have been written in hieroglyphics. I couldn’t figure out how to pay attention to the left hand when the right hand was […]
