Danny    Thompson,    Freelance    Copywriter


The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.

Archive for April, 2006

Cool New Tool: Flickr Leech

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Flickr Leech is a cool new tool I found recently. If you like to use random input as a creative tool as much as I do, then this is going to really stoke your creative fire. And the search features let you tailor your search enough to keep close to a particular project, yet still […]

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Time for a career change?

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I love copywriting. However, after reading the latest post from Tom Peters, I think I want a new job: CEO of a major US corporation.
I’m serious. Apparently you don’t have to have a clue what you’re doing…so experience really shouldn’t have any bearing on my being qualified. I’m sure I could do just as good […]

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The Quest for Immortality

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

I came across this quote today:
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
–William James
What are you spending your life on? What will outlast you so that you, in some way, touch the future?
The easiest answer that comes to mind is my two boys. Definitely a worthwhile pursuit for […]

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Been a while…

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

But I think I’m back now.
As it turns out, I am coaching my son’s soccer team. It’s not the first time I’ve coached; a while back I coached my brother’s team begining while he was in fifth grade–it was a competitive league team, and I coached it until they all went to high school.
My […]

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