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DC House of Mystery Omnibus Vol. 1

Welcome to the House of Mystery, where bone-chilling (and rib-tickling) revelations haunt every dark and shadowed room–and people are dying to get in! One of the most celebrated anthology titles of the Bronze Age of Comics, The House of Mystery earned its iconic status in the late 1960s and early 1970s under the skillful hands of editor Joe Orlando, whose uncanny aptitude for the fearsome and the…

DC House of Mystery Omnibus Vol. 1

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Remembering Fallen Shipmates on Memorial Day

I originally posted this on my first blog. In fact, it was THE reason I started blogging. I had an experience in my life that I never forgot, and I always thought, “you know, if I die, I’d really like to at least get that thought down on paper… or something”. So I started a blog on an old blogging platform (remember blogger?) and tried to put it into words. I wasn’t very good at it initially, and…

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Frank Miller’s Speech to the 1994 Diamond Retailers’ Summit

[Full Audio Below] I bought this the morning after the GEM Awards show. I knew it was a historic moment, and I’m so glad I not only bought it but somehow saved it in a box of comic book odds and ends. In college, I was hopelessly addicted to comics. As is the case with most addictions, it doesn’t take long before you realize that the easiest and best way to fuel your addiction is by becoming a…

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2024 - The Year of Product Management and Product Leadership

I’ve been building digital experiences for as long as there have been digital experiences and I’ve enjoyed evolving as the platforms & underlying technologies have evolved. I came to advertising in the ’90s from a background in technology, computers and computer science, so I began my career with “software development” as my frame of reference. In the early days of building out these brand-new…

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Work - The JWT Holiday House - 2013

The JWT Holiday House, featured in AdWeek In the Fall of 2013, I was made director of the Dallas Technology office of JWT / Atlanta. One of the first things I wanted to do was create an environment of innovation, experimentation, and creativity. So I bought everyone in the office a new (at the time) Raspberry Pi microcontroller and told them to go nuts. The result was this brilliant little bit…

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J. Walter Thompson

“Walter” Ran across this and chuckled a bit. I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for all things Walter and this design, commissioned from one of the “Archer” animators who were housed over on Williams Street at the time, is my all time favorites. We used in several Atlanta Office in-house efforts during the early 2010’s and it was a really fun identity to work under. With the demise of JWT,…

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My Last Nirvana Show, 1991

In late 1991 I was back in Oak Harbor visiting shipmates and spent some time down in Seattle partying and catching as much live music as I could. A group of us lucked out and scored Halloween night tickets to Nirvana at the Paramount Theater. It was about a month or so after the release of “Nevermind” and the buzz was pretty intense. I distinctly remember we didn’t dress up (after much discussion…

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#SaturdayAfternoon spent at the “Junior Rockhound Club” with the #CobbCounty #GemAndMineralSociety carving #SoapStone - what fun! My little junior #Geologist is having a blast and so is dad 💎💎💎 (at Cobb County Gem and Mineral Society) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HXx98H-Nj/?igshid=3magay776qfa

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Thoughts on Creativity

Thoughts on Creativity • Rocketship To Planet Jeff!

Over the last couple of years working for VML and the Navy, I’ve given a lot of thought to the idea of creativity & technology. Not as two separate topics, but a single, combined notion. In particular the technique and production of creative ideas and how engineering, data, production and science (I’ll lump all of these together as “technology” because I really view them as tools in a technology…

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At City College of New York in #Harlem tonight and tomorrow for #VMLYR #ideahackathon. Can’t wait to bring the #VML greatness to some awesome ideas... #CCNY (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpsUNA2BF0l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ly57oqt8zu2e

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Planet Jeff turned 8 today!

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Got my first arrested landing on an aircraft carrier. My first "trap". I now have a patch to commemorate. (at USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70))

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Watching the sun rise over San Diego with the USS Theodore Roosevelt docked on the right. Today we'll be heading over the bridge into Coronado, then I'll be boarding a C2 to fly out to the USS Carl Vinson for my first trip BACK to an aircraft carrier in over 25 years. I can't remember a time when I was MORE excited. It's a fine, fine Navy morning for a 3 Wire! (at San Diego Bay, CA)

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Can't visit the gulf without overdosing on gulf shrimp! (at Red Fish Grill)

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Blow, cat. Blow. #NOLA #FrenchQuarter (at French Quarter)

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Waiting for me when I got home... two *amazing* #inktober2016 sketches by the wonderful @wtorres1972. I'm a lucky, lucky guy... #ForbiddenPlanet #RobbyTheRobot #ThisIslandEarth

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#TBT A young airman manning the rails in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii... USS Kitty Hawk, CV-63. #AviationOrdnance #IYAOYAS #Cat4 #AnchorsAweigh #80s (at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)