erikdeleo.bsky.social
Ad copywriter/ACD. Author. Entrepreneur. Unapologetic cat lover.
I write things for a living. Sometimes they’re good.
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“Stacks of maps” sounds eerily familiar to “binders full of women.”
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I’m still baffled at how Boomers that voted for Reagan completely forgot about the whole “Russia is bad” thing.
One of the crazier political turns I’ve witnessed in my life.
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Fun fact: 10 years ago I held a cat-themed festival in LA and got to meet her.
She’s pretty awesome.
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A friend of mine sent a pic of one of his students engrossed in a book I wrote and it literally made my whole week.
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There better be a timeline where these decisions are made by creative types instead of bean counters whose absolute best existence as an artist could only be to reach the level of “complete hack.”
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Literally almost every ad job I’ve ever gotten was because of a similar/same client in my portfolio.
Like DIRECTV and Time Warner Cable.
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Is that…is that Trump’s gigantic toupee protecting America?
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Senator Durbin: The call is coming from inside the house.
RFK Jr: What call?
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This is because these people are incompetent AND dumb.
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The guy he hit is a well known drum corps percussion arranger/instructor.
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My heart had no glow before I got vaccinated.
It must be orders of magnitude worse now.
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For the record, name generators existed long before ChatGPT.
Also, I’ve never used ChatGPT to generate names.
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Shit, I was watching Rogue 1 before the last three episodes came out and even missing a 1/4 of season 2, everything hits so much harder.
God bless Tony Gilroy and his brother.
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Maybe I should start doing my own stunts.
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Look at what the US said about this academic in Thailand. Without any sense of irony.
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One of my favorite headlines the past two months, from a Thai outlet.
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And sticking in lines from Rogue One that feel like gut punches while also being inspiring?
“Rebellions are built on hope.”
Fuck.
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Hell, I had problems with “unalived.” Like, does the word died need a trigger warning?
Also, I’m Gen X. I send voluminous amounts of thumbs up emojis without apology.
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“It seemed he actually cared…”
People are SO BAD at identifying malignant narcissists and demagogues.
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Thoughts and prayers.
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Cargill being retweeted…wait, re-BlueSky’d…wait, whatever…by Flavor Flav was not on my bingo card, but I definitely should have put that shit on my bucket list.
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This is the tipping point I was waiting for.
But people ain’t gonna do shit. Like boiling frogs, Americans will continue to post stupid shit on Facebook.
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This feels high in clickbait.
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Just find a major pop star and light their hair on fire and you’re good 👍
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FYI, one of my friends is a self-pubbed author and former ad agency creative who helped Jeep sell more Jeeps than they ever had (about 10 years ago).
Big brand advertising is not author advertising. It’s more akin to direct marketing & he feels like he’s needed to relearn agency brain thinking.
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The Dolphins were like, “Oh yeah? Squish the Fish? Well, here’s what we think of your shitty mock draft!”
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How can a former heroin addict be humping eugenics so authoritatively?
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This guy is arguably worse than Tommy Tuberville.
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Just here to let you know I’m still using “President Fatgolf” which I told you on Twitter years ago I was going to steal.
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When did LinkedIn become Hinge?
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That Polygon headline is almost as terrible as “After you watch Roots, you should really watch American History X.”
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And here I thought it was just anorexia.
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And here I was hoping the chapter after the “Disinformation Age” might be a positive one.
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I self publish, but a teacher friend sent me a pic of one of his student’s engrossed in my book last week and it kinda made that whole week.
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I mean, they wheeled away the TV’s and then just…kept teaching like nothing happened.
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“I’m a man who shot himself in the face. As I lay here bleeding, I demand free healthcare which I voted against all my life.”
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Fucking coward.
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Is there a secret opening in the back of the box for some heroin?
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Sisters from another mother.
(Her name is Caia)
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Wait until you see what the US State department said unironically about a US professor in Thailand.
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I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how creative fields work.
You aren’t getting hired in advertising without a portfolio. As a beginner, those are spec ads.
And you ain’t getting hired as a screenwriter without spec scripts.
It’s all an investment in yourself and your career.
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It’s not free labor, though.
It’s an investment in yourself. It’s practice.
Kobe shooting foul shots is not free labor and neither is writing spec scripts to become better.
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Never said it did.
However, I do enjoy writing and my craft is good enough that I’ve spent 20+ years in the ad biz.
Plus, the books I’ve written make money.
I’ve literally made a career out of writing. And I enjoy it. See how that works?
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Literally had your previous conversation with a fellow ad creative who also writes books like I do.
Like, we will write fiction because we enjoy the process of writing and the improvement of our craft. It will be a life long endeavor for the enjoyment of it.
“Success” would be a cherry on top.
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That just radicalized me.
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There are more than twice as many people on the planet as there were when I was born in the 70’s.
We don’t need more people. Everything is gonna be fine.
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This is triggering my Upstate NY PTSD.