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Decemburrr

Here’s the mix for pre– & post-Christmas December, or Decemburrr. There will be another mix for Christmas eventually. But for the other 29 days of December that are not Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, you can listen to this. My idea

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snacks

I feel like on AdBrad I post pretty sporadically and usually with a somewhat lengthy description of the work or link or whatever I’m writing. Lately, I’ve been coming across some cool stuff and thinking, “I should blog that so

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&">Collecting &

I haven’t collected anything since my Hot Wheels collection was destroyed in a house fire when I was 13. So I’m trying a new collection. The ampersand is my favorite glyph. Some people collect letters of their first name. B is

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November It Well

My RSS reader has 113 blogs in it. Currently it has 339 unread posts because I was in Oklahoma City all day for the OKC AdClub Career Day. The brand director for Shiner was there to show off their spectacular

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Stay OK 1: Coffee Shop

This is the start of a series for me: Stay OK. These posts will be reasons why I want to or why I don’t want to stay in Oklahoma after I graduate college. I’ve got a few semi-options right now

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Set Your Minds to Stunned

Just got back from the new Star Trek movie. In typical J.J. Abrams style, we have time warps, fanged monsters, sometimes confusingly placed comic relief, stunning special effects and of course my favorite part – well-treated typography in the opening

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Common Market

This post is just a test to check out a new WordPress plugin called ProPlayer. It’s for video and audio links in a standardized format. So for the test, this is a new Common Market music video. My roommate and

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Popgun 3

I apologize for 2 comics posts in a row, but it had to be done. This is awesome. Popgun 3 is “the original graphic mixtape” of new comic artists and authors. Featuring budding talent from across the country, this is

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Back to the Drawing Board

This week, I picked up a few Star Wars comics from a local flea market, and yesterday, a couple Star Wars Tales comic-pilations from the Stillwater Public Library. I read half of the 1^st book so far. Each story by

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Tetris Book Blocks

Check out these new Tetris storage units. Want them/want to make them. They’ve been making Tetris furniture for a while now, but with the dominant white look, I think these could actually be placed in a legitimate home. What is a

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Working 2 Jobs

So listening to the Relevant Magazine Podcast as I type this, I learned about a band called Anathollo. They’re pretty freaking cool — hard to describe — kind of Fleet Foxes meets Bloc Party. So, anyway, they interviewed the lead

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Comic Relief

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of blogs — or should I just say looking at a lot of them — usually not much to read at AisleOne & Form55. So I’ve been reading and reading you know all these design-related,

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