I wrote about New Orleans chessmaster Jude Acers a few months ago. Right now he’s competing in the World Senior Chess Championship in Opatija, Croatia . He’s 1-1 after the first two rounds; he lost yesterday to one of the tournament’s top players.
Hey, I saw your dad the other day. Oh yeah? Where’d ya see him, on one…
With the combination of a deep-fried steak, an over-proof mojito, and fart gas that would have knocked…
Costas: Are you a pedophile?
First off, who would answer yes on national television when there’s a criminal case against him [and now about 10 more victims have come forward, though all are still under investigation].
Storage Heroes Tip #1: Don’t ever underestimate a good business contact.
In our business, it’s easy to think of ourselves as buyers, or as salesmen, which we are- but it’s pretty difficult to think of ourselves as personalities. Thank goodness for Brian as a business partner though, because I’ve quickly learned that you can’t buy or sell without a personality. A personality yields contacts, and contacts yield business. It all relates.
How many times have we gone into a store where the sales clerk treated us as if we didn’t exist? We’ve all had that “Pretty Woman” moment. We’ve also had the experience where the sales person would not let us leave the store without talking our head off or trying to force us to buy something. Whether it worked or didn’t work, it likely made us pretty uncomfortable. How many times though, have you walked into a store and had the salesman ask you how your day was? Inquire about pictures of your children? Actually care about your personal life?
In terms of sheer volume, I peaked as a reader in my 20s.
In those days, I didn’t do much except read. Life was pretty simple. I extended my student years without much effort, drifting along. But always with a book!
As long as I stayed in school, no one seemed to bother me too much. I knew I’d discovered one of the great truths, hidden for so long in plain sight: As long as you appear to be doing something, no matter how pointless or quixotic it is, people will generally leave you alone.
That is what I wanted. I wanted to enjoy my books and my friends and write my not-very-good stories and poems.
I didn’t think too much about the future. By the time I was 25, I’d worked so many different kinds of jobs that I could tell how things were going to pan out – cheap rent, low wages, ridiculous adventures. Fine!
This is a subject I think about again and again. Girly girl, girl who likes boy stuff or what my mom told me is a tom boy, girl, boy, whatever. I wonder why girls and boys like the stuff they like and if they are happy to be that way. Or is someone telling them what to like and what to be? I like to do so many things so I was thinking what am I? Here is my poem answer.
The worst faux pas a guest in a restaurant can make is offend the staff before dinner…
First, I’ll start off by warning you that in this post I’ll be detailing the contents of one of the most risque units we’ve ever purchased. If you’re easily offended, you want to stop reading now. If you’re at work or somewhere that a small child may wander up beside you and wonder what something is, you may want to stop reading now. If you’re offended by nudity or sex, you definitely want to stop reading now. If none of these things apply to you, keep reading! Some of the more explicit pictures I’ve linked so that you have to click to them.
“And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.” – Revelation 5:4
It’s the day before the big game, Alabama vs. LSU. The weather is grim, a bad omen for somebody.
The Vegas boys have made the Tide five-point favorites. They’re good, the Vegas boys. They have the weird info, numbers you don’t know, can’t know. They control the passage of objects across the sky.
Life is ephemeral. The Vegas boys know. One way or another, there will be a riot at Bryant-Denny tomorrow night. It will be a powerful meeting of teams and fan bases, the game of the college season.
The grilled meat of the losers shall be flavorless and greasy.
The losers shall not savor merlot, nor Michelob Ultra, for the great day of wrath has come.