David Himmel 3/12/21 David Himmel 3/12/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 7, 2021

The quickest way to become an asshole is to take yourself, your work, or your art too seriously.

Don Hall 3/11/21 Don Hall 3/11/21

I Like to Watch | Billions (Showtime)

“It's time for you folks to sharpen your pencils, and you better come back with one Traci Lords of an idea. And if you need that fucking defined, here it is: a barely legal, market-dominating, brilliant cocksucker of an idea.”

Joe Janes 3/10/21 Joe Janes 3/10/21

Election Integrity Laws Prevent Cheating Cheaters from Cheating

Voters must answer the question, “Who’s the president, really?”

Don Hall 3/9/21 Don Hall 3/9/21

Is the Cancel Culture Racist or a Response to Bigotry?

We tend to buy this hook every time. Why? Because, like the center of a Tootsie Pop, it only takes the owl three licks to get to our judgmental, self-interested, terrified centers.

Don Hall 3/8/21 Don Hall 3/8/21

I Believe... [Survival is like Nipple Glue]

...that the daily battle between plodding through each day to survive on most levels and motivating yourself to do better, be better, is like nipple glue on the pastie of an athletic burlesque performer—barely hanging on from dance to dance.

David Himmel 3/5/21 David Himmel 3/5/21

The Mental Health Conditioning of WandaVision

WandaVision has ended. The ninth and final episode is currently streaming on Disney+. As of this writing, I have not watched it. But, boy am I excited to. I’ve been waiting since mid-January to watch this series finale. The slow burn of the whole thing with its clever clues and nerd-gasm Easter eggs… And what a wait it’s been.

David Himmel 3/5/21 David Himmel 3/5/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 28, 2021

People who post spoilers about a show or a movie with twenty-four hours of its premiere are as bad as Ted Cruz.

Joe Janes 3/3/21 Joe Janes 3/3/21

Live Free, Die Texan!

If you contract COVID and the hospital is full, don’t be a baby about it.

David Himmel 3/3/21 David Himmel 3/3/21

Requiem for a Bartender

Steve ran the joint. Tending bar was the family business. His father, Tom, ran it the generation before mine. Steve and I became fast friends. That’s the bartender’s job, after all—to befriend their loyal patrons. But I was also young, boiling over with energy, and thirsty to learn the ways of drinking legally in public. Steve gave me, gave so many of us that arena.

Contributing Writer 3/2/21 Contributing Writer 3/2/21

Hey, Kid, Catch The Ball

If we didn’t play ball in the alleys, we played pinners against the front-stoop with a pinkie or fastpitch against the factory wall. What we didn’t want to do is hit our only league into the yard of Mr. Hardwick, who had Baron, the meanest German Shepard you could imagine on patrol. Baron drooled with desire when he saw us come near, the dream of tearing off a piece of our skin or even a finger or two making him crazy.

Don Hall 3/1/21 Don Hall 3/1/21

I Believe… [A Potato Has No Gender, Idiots]

I believe… that if the renaming of “Mr. Potatohead” to “Potatohead” is the hill you’re going to die on, you may need to get some sort of professional evaluation.

Contributing Writer 2/28/21 Contributing Writer 2/28/21

Dear Don (both of you; all of you)

Crime has never stopped paying. How naïve I have been all my life thinking that one day it would…not pay.

Don Hall 2/27/21 Don Hall 2/27/21

Advice Unsolicited | Offense Is Definitely a Choice

First things first. It is and has always been a choice to take offense or not.

ALWAYS.

Your aunt has chosen to not be offended by a word that has become weapon used. You have chosen to be offended. Likewise, your aunt has chosen to be offended by being lectured and you choose to be offended that she is offended by your lecturing.

David Himmel 2/26/21 David Himmel 2/26/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 21, 2021

I get really happy when religious leaders do the right thing. A sign of this is often when the flock gets really upset at their leader.

Don Hall 2/25/21 Don Hall 2/25/21

How Free is Our Speech and Who Decides?

These days political thought is indistinguishable from religious rhetoric. So many looking to assert the moral ground upon which we all must stand or be banished. The mistake made is to embrace the idea that the digital space is real life or even matters that much.

Joe Janes 2/24/21 Joe Janes 2/24/21

Upon This Hill I Shall Die, America!

We, the true chosen-by-God followers of our chosen-by-God president are taking our chosen-by-God country back!

Don Hall 2/23/21 Don Hall 2/23/21

Why Can't We Just Share the Last Slice of Pizza?

No, it is neither race nor gender that is the engine of inequity. It’s almost entirely economic class.

Don Hall 2/22/21 Don Hall 2/22/21

I Believe... [Rush Who?]

I believe... that hearing that Rush Limbaugh has passed on affects me much in the same way as when I hear about someone I heard yelling about something once in a high school auditorium and then promptly blocked the memory from existence.

Guest User 2/21/21 Guest User 2/21/21

Night Out, 2025

Is it Friday? A day hazing over fast into the good long while of night. Both are so happy to have had themselves. To have been connected.

This was an age after the rooftop days were over. Removed and exposed from the vantage of twenty-or-more stories.

Don Hall 2/20/21 Don Hall 2/20/21

How Zero Tolerance Policies in the 1990s Caused Our Modern Puritanism

Isabella would be roughly thirty-six years old now and would classify as a Millennial. Her kids are the pro typical Gen Z crowd. Both she and her kids seem to operate still with this zero tolerance policy in mind. They have become the hall monitors for their collegiate experience, the snitches of social media, and the ‘Karens’ of every Walmart and Starbucks in America.