Category: Things I Write For Work

  • For Whom The Bell Tolls

    (There is no Hemingway in this post.) I mentioned, I think, going to Tool last week. I went to Dallas, saw them with my sister and brother-in-law. Was a heck of a show. Not a single unwanted song. Which is always awesome. How many times have you gone to a concert they played a song…

  • Lasso Your Monday

    I’m Mondaying through my Monday. Not like last Monday, but … Had half the bullets written and realized, no, dude, you can’t say any of that. I mean, I could, but consequences. Definitely not something Ted would do. We started watching Ted Lasso this weekend, and it’s pretty spectacular. Almost literally every line in that…

  • Breakfast Music

    I had the thought, briefly, I’d make today’s list literally a playlist. Just a bunch of YouTube links to songs you could click one after another. I suppose I could probably make a YouTube playlist for you, and share the link. But then you’d know my YouTube handle and we would not be maintaining separation…

  • Slapping Pages

    I have never been comfortable using most slang. Even back when I was a kid, I never used skater speak. Other than “dude.” I still address most people as “dude.” (No gender implied, obviously.) (But certainly not in the ordained sense, either.) When I see certain slang used in headlines, it makes me … cringe.…

  • The Law of Unintended Movie Mondays

    What is happening. That’s more rhetorical as I’m not really asking. I don’t expect you to answer, but a greeting of some sort on a Monday morning seems … proper. I’d ask you if you were sitting in my office. Or if we were sharing a phone call. Or a Teams chat. Holy cow, Teams.…