Double Booked

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY MITCH stares at the white board blankly. He has a laptop in front of him, opened to Twitter. He wears a pair of black slacks and a shirt that was probably on sale at the Gap. WANDA sits across the grey table from him. She keeps taking the cap off… Read more

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Sympathy For The Bro

I was reading an article today about what qualities President Obama may be looking for when deciding who to nominate as the next Supreme Court justice, and the character trait that rose above all others was empathy. This notion: the ability to understand what people other than yourself are feeling, to see their point of… Read more

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The Braves Way

WARNING: Baseball-related post. Yes, I made some graphs. I love making graphs. In just over a week, pitchers and catchers will report and Spring Training will kick off in earnest. Most post-seasons for Royals fans like myself are black holes of nothing while we speculate on who might possible break out next year and bring… Read more

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Security Questions – Part 2

More security question answers. Remember: please only use these if I am unavailable to give you access to all my money directly.  What was the name of your elementary school? I wasn’t a military brat, but I did move around a bit when I was a child, so this question is a fun challenge when… Read more

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Downtown Notes: Day 22

A few years back, we stopped watching American Idol and I began to develop a hypothesis as we surfed from competition music program to competition music program, hoping that a Voice or a Got-Talented individual would spark our interest and move our souls. America had run out of talented people. Every singing, dancing, weeping individual… Read more

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Where to Stick It

Today, I noticed that they have installed solar-powered trash and recycling bins in the subway station downtown. This seems like a fine gesture and certainly in-line with the Eco-friendly brand of public transportation. However, I have one quibble. The subway station is about 60 feet below street level. It takes two staircases and a trek… Read more

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Order Up!

Today, I’d like to break down a brief exchange I overheard in the cafeteria. Our players are a young man and the grill cook. “Is the garden burger vegetarian?” This question, of course, came from the young man. You can suppose this because the grill cook should not be asking about the products he is… Read more

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Security Questions – Part 1

I figured the Internet was a safe place to keep all of the answers to security questions my bank asks me. I’ll need to be able to google these at some point, I’m sure. What is the name of your favorite city? Hmm… A tough one right off the bat. I mean, I was born… Read more

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Fight On

Later in this post, I’ll opine on how I think a large conglomerate thought it would benefit itself to be represented by a boxing octopus. But first, this: I think one of the things advertising agencies are worst at is branding themselves. You can take a journey across the Internet and see how different companies… Read more

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The Tuck Rule

Current track: Listening to instrumental Beetles covers. (Thank you, Internet) Today, the internal debate was about whether or not to tuck my shirt in. By far, one of the things I was most apprehensive about after deciding to accept my new job was knowing that I would have to step up my wardrobe. When you… Read more

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