*Team Owner Secrets: Who spent the first six months of 2008 in a psychiatric facility trying to decipher what he believed were secret messages coded into the white space between the text on the pages of Steven King novels?...
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Basements
Whenever a tornado threatened, we cut through our backyard into our neighbor's backyard to join Bib and Erna and their two daughters down… [rest of the story]
October
Take It Like A Man
My Basement
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Basements
Whenever a tornado threatened, we cut through our backyard into our neighbor’s backyard to join Bib and Erna and their two daughters down in their basement. My father and Bib would stay beyond the closed basement door to watch the dark clouds and lightening and...
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Gott Nicht Mit Uns
TEAM OWNER SECRETS…
*Question: Who spends his Friday afternoons loading up on free food samples while ogling female shoppers at the local Whole Foods, which he crassly refers to as “the land of MILFs and honey”?
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September
LOSERS — WEEPERS
TEAM OWNER SECRETS …
Which of us came close to being fired last year for demanding a happy ending after a complimentary foot massage at his employer’s wellness fair?
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“There’ll be no need for me to cry”: Jude’s Rule to End of Part 1
See Part 1 at Class Action Films. Support the Kickstarter “The Man in the Red Beret!” Tell your everybody! _____ Written by Derek Bridges and edited by Dedra Johnson Jude’s Rule: “I’m going my way” As best as I can determine, in 1972 then United States Chess Federation Executive Director Ed Edmondson froze Jude’s rating at 2399 until he played...
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INTO REALMS UNKNOWN
It’s worth pointing out a few things about current League Champion Gonk’s Revenge. This outfit has won two Championships since 2008, came close to winning a third, and has at least made it to the playoffs each year. When teams perform like this over time, it tends to creates expectations from season to season, and also a certain amount of...
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Hair of the Cactus: Sebastián Silva’s “Crystal Fairy,” or, You Can’t Spell “OCD” Without “COD”
Much of the press Sebastián Silva’s move “Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012” has gotten this summer has focused on the film’s female lead, Gaby Hoffmann, and the fact that she did not require a merkin or other artificial follicular embellishment for her nude scenes. All the publicity I saw about this flick through July and most...
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The Age of Aquarius
I It must have been 1969 when I heard the song “Hair” on the AM radio. The song begins when a woman asks a man why he is so hairy. It was the so-called Age of Aquarius, when tribes of hippies marched off to Woodstock and Height Ashbury to live the Summer of Love. I am not sure why...
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ZEN AND THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE (AN ABSTRACT)
ONE – Introduction I was a university student in Business Management when I first heard the term Eighty-Twenty Principle. It was applied quite simply to the balance between inventory and profitability. In essence, it said that eighty percent of your inventory will produce twenty percent of your profits, and, conversely, twenty percent of your inventory will produce eighty...
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August
THE GOSPEL OF SHORT-TERM GAIN (AN ABSTRACT)
ONE – Introduction David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, said in an interview with Bob Edwards that America is a “prisoner of short-term gain.” I thought this a most elegant summation of this country’s evolution into the ethical swamp that appears to threaten its very existence. He further indicated that our collective...
The Privacy-Industrial Complex
Initial Disclosures: The author hiding (not very carefully or thoroughly) behind the pseudonym above is an attorney, albeit a non-practicing one. Said author also is the editor of a commercial periodical about privacy law published by a company that shall herein remain nameless. The opinions expressed below are those of the author and not...
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Some of my friends and family members think that it must be very hard to be an American-raised woman living in a developing country. They are right, but often for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a partial list of the things that they seem to find particularly challenging: bugs, blackouts, boredom, no tv, no...
Job Search Blues VI
When I was looking for my current job, I purchased a copy of the cassette tapes entitled "101 Best Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions" and studied it. I prepared my answers and thought through a number of different situations. However, when I went onto the market, I discovered that a lot of academics...
Job Search Blues VII
After this experience, I have to say that I am glad not to be on the market these days. When I was on the other side of the table, I wondered if the committee called candidates just to laugh at our desperation. I’ve since lost count of how many jobs I applied for, but...
July
10 screamers worth shouting about
Screaming is an under appreciated art form. For one thing, it's hard to do....
Yells of Chicago: A Short and Incomplete List
1. The hometown proud. I was at a punk show at Metro in ’86...
“sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”
All G Bitch has had to say about the Zimmerman verdict is in the...
Telling Stories, Spitting Fire
Yelling as an expression of anger is unhealthy for all involved. Yet the culture...
Orleans Avenue Canal Wall Gap
So, the Army Corps of Engineers was in charge of building a hurricane protection...
SECRET AGENT MAN – Part II
Some of you may remember the initial post about my friend Buddy being poisoned...
On the Cover of the Rolling Stone
One of my favorite songs is Dr. Hook’s “On the Cover of the Rolling...
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