I live a half mile from a Zaxby’s.

What’s the score?

Honestly? I really enjoy it. I fiddle with the always-awful script until it flows a little better, try to figure out what kind of energy is coming from the other end of the line as soon as possible (angry or annoyed? lonely and wanting to chit-chat? bored?), and make it a conversation rather than a litany or…

OK creative work-from-home types, you’re on: I’m outfitting a new home office with more bookcases than your typical university library but I’m on the prowl for anything else that will make my office … perfect. It’s big (a whole damn basement) so the sky is, more or less, the limit. What would be in your dream office?…

The next time someone asks to touch your hair, sigh, say yes, take two steps back, and dramatically unzip your pants as loud as possible. 10-1 they will run away.

Hillary events are always a blast. I did some phone banking for the campaign here locally today — my favorite call was to a 96 year old woman who, when she heard I was calling from the campaign, said “Hillary? She’s my girl!” I practically yelped with delight.

I hope it was Dick Woods Road.

Yesterday morning, I got a call from the Wake Forest athletic department, asking me if I’d be able to attend the game tonight and if I was interested in tickets.

If there is anything worse than hearing about someone else’s video games, or drama related to it, I’m not sure what it is. My most frequent fantasies are not sexual, they revolve around Wile E. Coyote-esque ways to destroy every gaming system in this house. My thoughts are with you.

This is all outstanding advice.

From what I can tell digging into the record, two pieces of legislation that Bernie authored have actually passed Congress during his entire time in the House and Senate. One added “and women” to the charter of the VFW, the other gave Federal blessing to a water accord between Vermont and New Hampshire. I can’t say I…

Totally. Reading it before you’ve read other Steinbeck will make you think Steinbeck is just some Charles Kuralt clone, but it remains one of my favorites of his.

I’m not awesome, you’re awesome. (Well, maybe I’m a little awesome.) What did you do in media? It sounds like you offer such a wide varieties of skills that someone is going to wish they hired you years ago.

I wish I could just post my sister’s email here. She’s been working in study abroad/international student stuff for nearly 20 years now. Those jobs exist. A lot of bigger corporations (and related non-profits) have an internship office that helps their worldwide offices find interns and/or helps family members of…

Engelbert Humperdinck, Henry Clay, or Candice Bergen.

Hooray! Love that book, love everything Vonnegut ever spilled out on paper.

I love snow, I really do. I’ve lived in snowy places most of my life. However, this storm can suck a low hanging hairy nut. It caused me to: rush home from a work project in NYC, rendering it unfinished and thus forcing me to leave the family again soon; postpone settling on a new house; acquire scaly hands from…

If we were voting for an autocratic monarch, he might have a point, but considering that any President has to deal with the 535 idiots elected to either oppose or rubber stamp the decisions of the executive branch, I think that he vastly overestimates the effect that anyone, even Bernie, can have on any particular…

Slaughterhouse Five or On the Road. Both are quick reads but you’ll never forget either.

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