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Patrick McKay
Patrick McKay is a dad, writer, and ad creative living in Seattle. He’s generally available to moan about the barbarities facing our precious advertising agencies. He’s currently trying to finish his first novel. Fingers crossed on that.
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June 22, 2021I Think Bill Gates Is the New Drummer in Our Early Aughts Cover Band
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November 25, 2020COVID Surge Black Friday Deals
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August 16, 2019Drybarfly
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June 24, 2019A Letter to My Younger Self About Gratitude, Humility, and How You’ve Forgotten You Were Raised By Wolves
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November 18, 2015My Carpet Liquidation Center Really is Going Out of Business This Time
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October 16, 2012You Don’t Love Limbo Like I Love Limbo
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March 15, 2012Honest Spotify Playlists
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August 30, 2011You Don’t Have the Mental Stamina to Outlast Me in This Dry Sauna
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July 27, 2011Here’s How My Humor Works
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May 13, 2022Ten Possibilities the Applebee’s Waitress Considers Before It Occurs to Her the Women in Booth Fourteen Might Be a Couple with Two Children
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May 18, 2022A Passenger’s One-Star Review of the Trolley Ride from the Trolley Problem
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May 13, 2022A Modest Proposal for Solving the Baby Formula Shortage
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November 13, 2018If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers
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