You know you love them. Those wonderful little stories of people proving Darwin’s claims of the survival of the fittest by opting out of the human race through shear stupidity. It seems to me that this year’s list is a bit darker than previous ones, however. The original winner was disqualified. The First Runner Up actually seems to fit the bill nicely, however…
I resolve for 2007…
…to be more diligent in seeking out the joy in life.
…to write more, for the sake of writing, as a crutch for introspection, and to tell the stories that bounce around in my head.
…to be open to adventure, to seek exhilaration, and to just every so often throw caution to the wind.
…to be there to teach my children, to protect them, and to see the world through their eyes.
Some fun for us music geeks…
Hey, I played a bass when I was kid and couldn’t stop laughing. A Merry Christmas to all!
Dick in a Box from Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg
Andy is the highlight of SNL these days for me…and if you want to see the uncensored version you can find it on NBC’s site.
At my last fulltime gig I had an office girlfriend….a MARRIED office girlfriend. Actually I had several of them over the couple of years I served my time there. But I’ve moved on and my office girlfriend is gone. But while we were together, it was wonderful. We sat together at lunch meetings and served on committees together. We snuck out for ice cream cones on insane days when the temptation of looking out the window at the bay on a sunny warm day was too much for us. We were there for each other. Oh no, wait. I see what you’re thinking! Get your mind out of the gutter. We kept each other sane while all around us, assholes reigned. That’s what office girl and boyfriends do for each other.
I’ve made my living for a great portion of my life as a writer, though of the dedicated, owned variety. I recently delivered and saw published the first freelance article I’d taken on in quite awhile. Can I jump into freelancing and make a living? Probably not–the ex and the creditors and the electric company are unlikely to agree to a complete cut and run. But I think I can make it into a nice sideline and I am all about mulitple streams of income and diversity at the moment.
If you are after specific investment advice, stop reading now. We seek to explore one of Adam Smith’s obsessions: what it means to be happy. We also discuss why that’s important to investors, and how we can seek to improve our own levels of happiness…
I’ve been storing a few things up in my brain that need to be dumped out somewhere, and its either here or the floor of the bathroom at the hole-in-the-wall bar down the street. And last time I did THAT, well, lets just say that I found out there are other uses for that mop in the corner…
In a previous life I read books and wrote about them. I did reviews, but more than that I helped my readers identify collectible authors as early in their careers as possible. Clearly my self-confidence was much higher then, given the vanity of thinking I could recognize genius better than the rest of you. Then again, there is a lot to be said about reading and writing for a living. I read both literary and mystery books for two publications (which I also published and edited which made it easier to get that job). If you have a passion for reading books in both these categories, you know that it is very seldom that you see much cross-over. Almost by definition, literary novels seldom contain the intricate plotting and twists of a good mystery. And mysteries almost never have the wonderful high style and lyricism of literary works. Mysteries are generally about the story-telling and literary books are about the writing. As readers, we are ok with that. Each category of books comes with different expectations.
