Do I have to be a Frenchy?
New Rule: When you don’t know something, there is no need to announce your ignorance to the world, because it might just be something that everyone else knows, making you…
Possibly maybe potentially exciting. Someday. Maybe.
Both SOMETHING MISSING and UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO have been optioned to producers, one for film and the other for television. All this really means is that someone has paid me a…
My dream
In the novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut writes: I make my living being impolite. I can only pray to be as fortunate someday.
Floor plan of Dunder Mifflin
I love The Office. There was a time when Jim and Pam weren’t together that I hung on every machination of their potential relationship. The best part of this floor…
Motivation strategies for employers, teachers and even parents.
Thought: What if I gave my students one day each week to work on any project they wanted? What would happen? Daniel Pink seems to suggest that I should expect…
Death by headphones
Every time I get angry at my cat for waking me up in the morning or sending my to work with a hole chewed out of the crotch of my…
If you’re embarrassed to admit to buying your clothing at Marshall’s, then you’re an embarrassment to all of humanity.
I had dinner with friends a couple nights ago. For a time, conversation centered upon clothing (as it always seems to do), and a woman who I had met just…
The evils of swashbuckling action and very bad weather.
Have you noticed that in addition to a simple rating, the Motion Picture Association of America adds a reason behind the rating to each and every movie that appears on…
The wondrous vulva
This product should not be referred to as a puppet. Puppets speak. They sing. They romp and play. They make children laugh. I don't want to know what these puppets are…
Goonies never say die
It’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Goonies this week. I loved the film, as all children of the 1980s should, but I always had one big problem with it. At…
