Turn The Page

Has the world healed enough for shameless self-promotion to return? The last time I volunteered my unsolicited thoughts, the world-at-large was in quite a state. It’s been quite an interesting year in the life and times of a sports and live-event producer and director. In fairness, it was quite an interesting year to be any type of person…

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Life is Mostly Shit: An Essay of Hope

Yep. Life is mostly shit. Like, even before the whirlwind of conspiring events have shaken the world’s consciousness, most of life is pretty shitty. Stated plainly like that, I see how it reads cynical and negativist. But maybe accepting that statement as fact, then reflecting on it, we’ll find life being mostly shit isn’t as bad as it sounds.

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Back On Track

Last time I talked about my journey through the wonderful world of long term disability. Nine months since I went down for the count, and ninety days after my spine was sliced up. I knew when the first surgeon refused surgery that whenever I was going to be ready to get back to work, it would be at the worst time. And I was right.

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To Hell and Back

EDITORS NOTE: Written in early March 2020 before quarantine, but funny how it came back around in a new way…

So my last post over a year and a half a go talks about how bad I am at maintaining this blog. The time between posts would suggest that is still the case. It is. But if you haven't checked in during that time, there is a reason other than being busy or being lazy.

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Get Your Pump On

When I started at The Q, I felt I kind of sucked at open videos and pump videos, but in Akron, they were kind of the same thing. Just kind of highlight videos. Over the years I was able to take on now what I consider opens and have made some strides. While I was doing that, my pump game never really developed. So this year I thought I’d work on that a bit…

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Their Ideas Are The Best

The biggest challenges in doing player videos are having them trust you to, at the minimum, not make them look bad, and making them care. There’s a lot of folks with a lot of ideas on what words and actions we ask these people to have recorded, and often times put on the internet forever. And a high percentage of these things these are things these fellas don’t have much interest or enthusiasm in saying or doing…

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A New Season Begins

Being bad at updating in August was slightly unexpected, but as anyone who works in a basketball/hockey arena can tell you (probably most of your social circle), September is where the action is. All the shit you talk about getting things done in June, July, and August- September is when you have to actually make things happen.

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Well, I pay for this website…

Hey reader person. Welcome to Chris Thomas | Media, and my blog specifically. So, why does this site and blog exist? The bad answer is I had to buy a domain and hosting for college courses and I kept paying the invoices. Might as well get some mileage out of it instead of paying for an unused husk of a website for years on end. A better answer is…

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