So I got to cogitating the other day about blogs and blogging. I realized this phenomenon has become more than just a passing fad. I tried to distill the greatest benefits of blogging to mankind in my own mind. I got it down to two lofty contributions.
First, blogging rights the wrongs in [...]
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Today I am unveiling a new classification system for individuals based on rigorous scientific study, deep spiritual contemplation and keen social observation. Everyone, and I mean everyone, falls into one of these two camps: Shirt People or Sock People.
This is serious, just hear me out. Sock people are one [...]
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This idea came to me the other night as I was serving Cheerios to my kids for dinner. You see being a blogger and an entrepreneur setting out to change the world you sometimes miss those simple pleasures in your life. Like food. Thereupon it hit me. Why [...]
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So as is my wont, I take a perfectly good poem and flush it down the drain and start all over like a pain. Today I’m amending Johnny Keats “Ode to a Grecian Urn” in my own inimitable style. Someday I will get off my arse and put it up as a podcast. [...]
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Well, for one, artists, comedians, politicians and crazy people all view the world a little differently than most of us. They start on common ground – the stuff of everyday life – and then they veer catawampus into virginal territory and drag us along for the joyride. They view the world cock-eyed. [...]
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So the other day I went to see the movie Ironman at the Mountain View theater. After the show as often is the case my spouse had to scamper to the ladies room, post movie Starbucks and all. And as I waited with the other patrons a thickset man in jeans and [...]
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So is it just me or is everything there days getting chopped, diced and sliced into ever smaller chunks for our entertainment consumption? Seems like we’ve become a nation of instant gratifiers - give it to me now, give it to me quick, gimme, gimme, gimme.
So back in the good ole days our forefathers [...]
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So tell me, what is it about the human species that drives us to pursue extreme experiences? Why do we often invite pain and suffering against our better judgment?
So the other night under an orangy sunset and the warm intimations of summer I drove the whole family down to Baskin Robins for their 31 [...]
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