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.

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Bases Loaded!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I’ve been a little dormant this last week because of an impending arrival at the Lefthanded Lair…and he arrived today! I’d like to introduce everyone to Sean Charles Thompson, number three of three. He was born today at 1:36pm weighing in at a whopping 5lbs, 15.4 ounces.
Needless to say…I doubt you’ll seem much by […]

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Perspective Like Blunt Force Trauma

Monday, July 9th, 2007

So, I took the family to Gulf Shores for the 4th of July Week as a little vacation. On the way down I had a realization. It started in Montgomery, where I started seeing billboards I had written. Then, as I got closer to the beach, I started seeing boards for campaigns I’d forgotten I’d […]

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New Commercial from The Travelers

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

What a great, unexpected spot from Travellers

With the exception of Geico, most of the insurance companies seem to be revolving around the same old staid punchline: “life sucks. Buy insurance just in case.” This one takes a much more humorous angle and executes it really well. I was wondering just how well it would actually […]

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Read and Feed

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Stuck for ideas? Read something. It doesn’t have to be relevant to the topic of your blog. Just read, keeping an eye out for something that resonates with you. When it does, take that idea and see if you can apply it to your subject. Or, see if you can some up with something that […]

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No. And yes. Having a blog in and of itself won’t help. The true search advantage of a blog is that blogs are indexed more frequently by the search engines.
Your ranking depends on several factors, the most important of which is relevence. So, if your blog contains consitent, timely, relevent information pertaining to the focus […]

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Here’s a story…

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

…of a lovely lady. She had a son. She had a yard. She had a new pair of the latest trend in footwear. Her son put a flower from her yard in a hole in her Croc’s. “Hmmm, that’s pretty,” she thought. She wondered how she might be able to decorate her Croc’s.
She played around […]

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Welcome to the revolution.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Everybody’s been talking about it. Everybody has been thinking about it. What are we going to do when the coming revolution hits? What happens when we can’t make people listen to our sales message? What happens when they can ignore us and there is nothing we can do about it?
I hate to be the bearer […]

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