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Anticipatory Repudiation
Edwin, Just got back to the Hilton after negotiating with Mr. Siddiqui re the grease bomb contract. I discovered through our negotiation the heretofore anonymous bidder we’ve been competing against is Grease Unlimited LLC. They are a relatively boutique grease collection service, salvaging grease from 83% of Starbucks in the greater Appalachia region, and more…
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Was Tony Montana Noble?
I know this may seem strange to you, but society used to not be so just and egalitarian as it is today. Before the modern invention of “equality,” there used to exist castes that you were born into, and couldn’t break out of, no matter how hard you try. There were the plebs and there…
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I Forgot
what’s the word that best describes what I’m trying to say: definitive, definite, determine, discern, decide, define, decipher, demonstrate, disentangle, delimit, distinguish, or dictate?
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Beginner’s Luck
Are athletes born or made: I’ve spent my life trying to solve this riddle. As a child of the Athletic Director at the University of Miami, I was exposed to the nation’s most elite athletes from a young age. I observed them practice, compete, and lose over and over again. When I became a collegiate…
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Cat Got Your Tongue
To all those who have successfully shed themselves of their psychotherapist; with all those who know the truth about “mental health professionals;” for all those who have yet to learn how sick they truly are: I am here for you. There is nothing more humiliating than disclosing your private thoughts to a psychotherapist, just so…
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Variety
variety is the spice of life; which is to say variety is a supplement to life; which is to say life can go on without variety; which is to say variety is alien to life; which is to say variety exists outside life itself; which is to say life by itself lacks variety without variety.…
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Them Lyin’ Eyes
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People has to be one of the most helpful books I have ever read. It taught me a skill I could not have learned otherwise. It’s one-of-a kind! Nothing else is like it. No other book has helped me feel better about firing my employees! When the…
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My Pelvic Tilt
Of course I have a pelvic tilt. I’m proud of my pelvic tilt. I am Sisyphus rolling up his fucking boulder every day, I wouldn’t expect anything less out of myself.
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Writing on the Wall
Words can’t hurt you; but they can surely become “sticks” and “stones.”