Untangling ‘Entanglement’: A Conversation About the Creative Life with George McDonald
George McDonald, who performs under the alias “George Trouble,” can’t separate his creative life into neat categories.
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The Giant Turkey that Ate My Thanksgiving
For me, Thanksgiving 2012 began in May, when I was dispatched to Galveston, Texas, to escort a contractor onboard Carnival Dream. The contractor had been hired by Carnival Cruise Line to create a giant inflatable turkey for a planned Thanksgiving public relations stunt.
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The Making of an Editor
In 1986 I realized I needed to finish the undergraduate degree I was supposed to have finished in 1979. My wife at the time, Terri Averette Banks, was art director at Pace Communications, a fledgling publisher of airline in-flight and business magazines. Terri had gotten me a gig demolishing some offices in the Pace building that were being remodeled. I was standing on top of a partition wall, busting up drywall with a sledgehammer when in walked Editor Melinda Stovall with a shoebox in hand — and changed the trajectory of my life.
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