jabberwoCKY
@ckyonwords.bsky.social
Independent Copywriter + Creative Director. From St. Louis, now in Minneapolis. Domestically supplied infant. Deeply flawed biped. Aspiring human. Probably doing a bit. he/him/his
Portfolio: charleskyouel.com
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jabberwoCKY
@ckyonwords.bsky.social
· Nov 25
The creative process:
1. I’m an idiot
2. I’m a genius
3. Repeat until sun burns out
1. I’m an idiot
2. I’m a genius
3. Repeat until sun burns out
My relationship with making music is in that weird emotional DMZ between being drawn to the idealized concept of playing in a band and my more fraught, conflicted and complicated feelings about how that dynamic actually works.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My relationship with making music is in that weird emotional DMZ between being drawn to the idealized concept of playing in a band and my more fraught, conflicted and complicated feelings about how that dynamic actually works.
As I’ve gotten to know people in my bio/birth families and heard stories about the people who became my parents, I struggle with what parts of those stories are mine to tell, to share with others. The stories belong to me, but they also to other people who had nothing to do with me being born.
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As I’ve gotten to know people in my bio/birth families and heard stories about the people who became my parents, I struggle with what parts of those stories are mine to tell, to share with others. The stories belong to me, but they also to other people who had nothing to do with me being born.
Sometimes the truth is so simply and brutally stupid that it tempts us to contrive the most ridiculously complicated explanations to make it make a lick of sense.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sometimes the truth is so simply and brutally stupid that it tempts us to contrive the most ridiculously complicated explanations to make it make a lick of sense.
If the news you have is not big, should you even be posting on LinkedIn?
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If the news you have is not big, should you even be posting on LinkedIn?
I generally don’t sit still well to begin with, but boredom is absolute murder on my state of mind.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I generally don’t sit still well to begin with, but boredom is absolute murder on my state of mind.
You would do well to avoid the company of people who believe their own experiences represent universal truths, as well as those who think that in a perfect world their likes and dislikes would be shared by all.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You would do well to avoid the company of people who believe their own experiences represent universal truths, as well as those who think that in a perfect world their likes and dislikes would be shared by all.
I’d like to imagine that when people have conversations with me, their internal monologue is some variation on “You’ve put a lot of thought into this. Weirdly, but still.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I’d like to imagine that when people have conversations with me, their internal monologue is some variation on “You’ve put a lot of thought into this. Weirdly, but still.”
Hey, I wonder what’s up on Threads today…
Oh.
Oh.
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey, I wonder what’s up on Threads today…
Oh.
Oh.
The most interesting marketing engages, entertains, informs and above all knows and respects its audience. It steers clear of cynical ingratiation and shameless pandering with an understanding that people might not know everything, but they’re smart enough to know what they like when they see it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The most interesting marketing engages, entertains, informs and above all knows and respects its audience. It steers clear of cynical ingratiation and shameless pandering with an understanding that people might not know everything, but they’re smart enough to know what they like when they see it.
Not for the first time lately, I am feeling the need to watch this movie again. For all sorts of reasons. Not the least of which being that I didn’t appreciate it nearly enough at the time. youtu.be/kCXTq-fWWio?...
Burn After Reading - What Did We Learn?
YouTube video by smokethapimp
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November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Not for the first time lately, I am feeling the need to watch this movie again. For all sorts of reasons. Not the least of which being that I didn’t appreciate it nearly enough at the time. youtu.be/kCXTq-fWWio?...
The next time I go to Las Vegas, I’m going to do it right. In my case, this means taking a heroic dose of psilocybin mushrooms and riding around the strip in the back of a taxi cab listening to Steve Wynn talk about his casinos for 8 to 12 hours.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The next time I go to Las Vegas, I’m going to do it right. In my case, this means taking a heroic dose of psilocybin mushrooms and riding around the strip in the back of a taxi cab listening to Steve Wynn talk about his casinos for 8 to 12 hours.
Been on a carousel of polar emotions of late: sadness and joy, hope and despair, confidence and doubt, fascination and disinterest. And all of them are exactly the right thing to feel. Doing my best to let them pass through on their own terms and not lose track of the path I know I need to stay on.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Been on a carousel of polar emotions of late: sadness and joy, hope and despair, confidence and doubt, fascination and disinterest. And all of them are exactly the right thing to feel. Doing my best to let them pass through on their own terms and not lose track of the path I know I need to stay on.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of successfully locating something that you haven’t used in a long time and did not store in too clever a location to actually find it when you needed it.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of successfully locating something that you haven’t used in a long time and did not store in too clever a location to actually find it when you needed it.
It’s not currently something I have to think about, but one of the lessons I took away from being a homeowner for 20+ years is that you’ll be shocked at how soon you can end up with a basement or a garage or an entire house full of maybe somedays.
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s not currently something I have to think about, but one of the lessons I took away from being a homeowner for 20+ years is that you’ll be shocked at how soon you can end up with a basement or a garage or an entire house full of maybe somedays.
And the terrible thundering truth of it at last struck home.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
And the terrible thundering truth of it at last struck home.
The thing about ideas is that they all suck until they don’t. And the delirious thrill of the moment that happens will keep you from giving up long past the point at which any sane person would call it a day, a week or a career.
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The thing about ideas is that they all suck until they don’t. And the delirious thrill of the moment that happens will keep you from giving up long past the point at which any sane person would call it a day, a week or a career.
Curious culture we’ve developed here in which people reject empathy and community and care about no one but themselves, but apparently with the expectation that everyone else should care about them.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Curious culture we’ve developed here in which people reject empathy and community and care about no one but themselves, but apparently with the expectation that everyone else should care about them.
A fretless bass: Latest addition to the veritable encyclopedia of things that absolutely will not fix me, but seem like a very cool thing to spend an indefensible amount of money on because *this* time they might.
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A fretless bass: Latest addition to the veritable encyclopedia of things that absolutely will not fix me, but seem like a very cool thing to spend an indefensible amount of money on because *this* time they might.
My body has a fantastic sense of humor: “It’s 3:00am and you’re sleeping like the recently deceased. How about simultaneous calf cramps in both legs? Seriously, watching you try to get out of bed and not being able to stand up is pure comedy gold.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My body has a fantastic sense of humor: “It’s 3:00am and you’re sleeping like the recently deceased. How about simultaneous calf cramps in both legs? Seriously, watching you try to get out of bed and not being able to stand up is pure comedy gold.”
Human beings are individuals: unique, complex, complicated, wildly different from each other in the ways we process and understand information.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Human beings are individuals: unique, complex, complicated, wildly different from each other in the ways we process and understand information.
The experience of not ever feeling weird around someone, as it turns out, is a very rare thing indeed. I’ll never take it for granted.
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The experience of not ever feeling weird around someone, as it turns out, is a very rare thing indeed. I’ll never take it for granted.
Trying to be someone else’s idea of who I should be accomplished nothing beyond leading me further and further away from who I was. For most of my life. In the moment I finally understood and accepted the truth of this, all of that distance disappeared. And the way forward became clear.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trying to be someone else’s idea of who I should be accomplished nothing beyond leading me further and further away from who I was. For most of my life. In the moment I finally understood and accepted the truth of this, all of that distance disappeared. And the way forward became clear.
The greatest failure of human imagination is finding it inconceivable that others might experience the world differently or want different things from life and work. Closely followed by the reflexive conviction that anyone who is different and wants different things is wrong.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The greatest failure of human imagination is finding it inconceivable that others might experience the world differently or want different things from life and work. Closely followed by the reflexive conviction that anyone who is different and wants different things is wrong.
You can extract every last smidgen of joy from any activity or pursuit simply by turning it into a competition.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You can extract every last smidgen of joy from any activity or pursuit simply by turning it into a competition.
After we sort out the cornucopia of corruption and performative cruelty currently passing for a national government, can we turn our attention to exiling light and medium roast coffees to a bottomless pit for the remainder of eternity? Church basement swill with an insufferable hipster halo.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
After we sort out the cornucopia of corruption and performative cruelty currently passing for a national government, can we turn our attention to exiling light and medium roast coffees to a bottomless pit for the remainder of eternity? Church basement swill with an insufferable hipster halo.