Chrysler
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy
It's Halftime in America
Wildly enough this was my first-ever project. At the time my first book of poetry had hit the shelves and I was working behind the pizza counter at Whole Foods in Downtown Portland. Through absolute happenstance I was asked by Dan Wieden to jump into this project and take a swing at ad writing. The team was headed up by the remarkable Joe Staples. I was not told much. I was asked to write a "monologue" that a coach might give a team at half-time. Four of my lines were used to finish the already written script. I was paid 300 dollars. The commercial became a zeightguist and ended up being railed against on Fox News and nominated for an Emmy.