In case you haven’t become acquainted with the latest meme to hit the world – the autotuned remix of a news interview with a woman named Sweet Brown after a fire hit her apartment building – let me just advise you of two things: 1. Once you hear it, it will be in your head, […]

Part C: Psychological Profile Now that you’ve completed personal information the employment history, please answer the following questions honestly, in order to give us a clear sense of who you are, and how well you’d fit with the company dynamic.  Don’t worry – there are no wrong answers, it’s just a way to help us […]

I’ve always been fascinated by the brain, and in particular the whole hemispheric thing – Left brain quantifies, measure and decodes, while the right brain intuits and creates and senses.  And the left-brain dominant people think the creative/right side is basically wasted space, while right-brainers think the left-brains people Just Don’t Get It, Man. I bring […]

“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting,” Kevin C. Powers, 2009 I tell her I love her like not killing    or ten minutes of sleep    beneath the low rooftop wall    on which my rifle rests.      I tell her in a letter that will stink,    when she opens it,    of bolt oil and burned […]

So, there are the genres of movie we all know – the romcom, the horror film, et cetera.  But movies go way beyond that, in terms of niche.  Then there are the genres that are a bit more specified – genres you couldn’t really plan for. For example, some years ago one of my best […]

Oh, man, I may have to do this caption thing more often.  The responses this week were just fantastic.  I almost couldn’t bear to eliminate any of them, so bear with me if yours isn’t among the finalists!  I also suspect you’ll have a bear of a time choosing from among them! Bear. But the […]

People are pretty consistent in how they react when you tell them you’re having a baby.  You tell someone you’re expecting and 99.5% will first say something like, “Oh, that’s so great!  Congratulations, that’s so exciting!”  Which is a reasonable response.  Maybe a little overenthusiastic, but it’s exactly what the expectant parents would like to […]

I spent Monday up at the mountain enjoying a winter holiday adventure with my family.  We sat around, pretending to enjoy each other’s company, then put on our pristine, expensive outdoor gear, drove up to the ski lift, stood there looking at the mountain, turned away from the lifts, took off our gear and went […]