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Hi, my name is johnbreneman.com, but you can call me John Breneman for short. Semi-professional humorsmith. Aspiring literary prankster. Genetically wired to bring high levels of creativity to everything I do.
John Breneman | Career Highlights
Newspaper journalism – Portsmouth Herald, Boston Herald, Cambridge Chronicle: reporter | editor | Sunday columnist | headline writer | page designer | editorialist | mentor. Here’s the scoop on my newspaper career.
Copywriting – digital agency marketing copywriter | senior editor | email marketer | strategist | student. Duties include serving as senior editor of 8-person copywriting team. Specialties include combining art of storytelling with science digital marketing.
Hey, JB again. Lifelong journalist | storyteller | humorist. Still carving out my niche here in the lucrative, fast-paced blogosphere. Front-burner projects today include sharpening my humor-writing chops, learning Final Draft to craft a blockbuster film comedy and branching out into short fiction. Intellectual curiosity and empathy animate my daily existence.
Writing and editing copy on the following topics continues to expand my understanding of how the world works: Artificial Intelligence | Technology Entrepreneurship | Data Science | Cybersecurity | Digital Transformation | Brandstorming | eCommerce | Customer Relationship Building | Leadership Training | Remote Teaching |Private Aviation | Third Party Logistics | Health Informatics | Industrial Robotics | Emotional Intelligence | UX | 5G | The Internet of Thingamabobs (IoT) | and much much more.
Recent learning adventures include: helping a leading U.S. university launch six new online master’s degree programs (including artificial intelligence, data science and technology entrepreneurship) and website storytelling to help launch the world’s next great jazz and blues club.
One of my specialties is bringing an unusually high level of creativity to all kinds of fun and serious projects. For example, my niece Zoe’s commencement from Emerson College would have been held in May 2020 … but along came COVID-19. So I made her a special online graduation congratulation video … and awarded her an honorary triple Ph.D. from my make-believe institution of higher learning – Triple Action University.
“Scrub Your Hands and Cross Your Fingers” is a coronavirus rap I did during the early daze of COVID.
Triple Action News anchor Reid Page delivers blistering wordplay on income inequality and the global economy.
“Blogging WORST Practices” is a fun bit of marketing humor to promote my debut novel, “A Man of Remarkable Restraint.”
My new short film: “Bicycle Time Traveler”
A time-traveling bicyclist perched atop a “penny-farthing” invites you to ride along for a 360-degree tour of his 400-year-old city by the sea. Time moves at wharf speed in this slow-motion visual poem celebrating the wonders Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
My debut novel: ‘A Man of Remarkable Restraint’
Charles is definitely going insane. Has been since he was a kid. He keeps a tight grip on his inner psycho, but losing his job at the newspaper triggers some new craziness he can’t control. Come along on this madcap, darkly comedic odyssey with a deeply troubled, self-antagonistic protagonist — Charles [last name withheld to protect the innocent].
Triple Action Enterprises is my (work-in-progress) platform for launching new creative ventures and for sharing archival works
What the heck is on my YouTube Channel ??
A quick visit to my YouTube channel reveals several of my favorite alter egos, Triple Action News anchorman Reid Page and Mr. Billy Buck Teefus, THE American Redneck Savant (meet them in the two clips featured here). You’ll also find dope cuts from my imaginary hiphop artists, plus a mind-bending array of oddfellows and off-the-wall creations.
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Triple Action News anchorman Reid Page is my longtime broadcast journalist persona — a pioneer in the art of using overly exaggerated inflection and pauses to emphasize key words … and syllables.
Someone brought a gag redneck denture set to a family birthday party. I bit into it and introduced myself to my family as “Mr. Billy Buck Teefus, American redneck savant.” I was almost as surprised as they were.
Paging Dr. Breneman. In this wacky birthday video, I give my 85-year-old mom a telehealth checkup.
My alter ego M-Tone chose his hip-hop stage name because he can only rap in a monotone. Sometimes he rocks the mic as the Robot Rapper. (See the speed-rap version here)