Blame it on John: An introduction of sorts

This thing is going to shake, shimmy and shape-shift into a hundred different variations of itself a million times over, but for now, it’s this one thing and this is the first post.



Too often, we place too much emphasis on living in the now and make umpteen attempts to forget the past. Moving on is healthy.

Progress is paramount for success, right?

Well, this writer is a healthy time traveler and nearly five years in, I still draw strength and inspiration from the past.


I struggled and suffered for a long time to make it, going here, there and everywhere but mostly, nowhere at all. Now, I'm here with some sense of permanency.

For one person or for everyone, I offer this: the first philosophy-defining, buzz-catching letter from a hungry dreamer.



"Blame it on my relentless optimism or blame it on John Lennon and if you blame John, blame Elvis, Chuck Berry and Robert Johnson too. It's all their fault. I'm a dreamer and my own career-oriented American dream is to be a copywriter. They tried to tell me I was an artist so they sent me to art school. While there, my love for advertising began to manifest into this enormous obsession with ad ideas both written and visual. I was coming up with more ideas than there were allocated projects and was rapidly filling my college ruled notebooks with these ideas. Questions started to arise: "Are you a designer or a copywriter? Thanks to steadfast determination, I appeased the powers that be, finished a well-rounded portfolio and completed school (five months early). I've talked to a few copywriters since beginning the pre-requisite network-o-rama and it seems I'm cut from the same mold. Rather than being Salinger and Hawthorne it was more Starsky and Hutch. I am young though and in this field, not as experienced as most would like.

At the most, I’ve gotten my feet wet.

I will tell you that whatever I lack in experience I make up for in sheer will and the desire to prove the doubters wrong.

Like I have so many times before."