Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 28, 2024
If you ever want to see the Circle of Life play out in real time, head over to the DMV. You’ve got 16-year-old kids getting their first driver’s licenses. So excited, so nervous. With their parents, so proud and terrified. And then you have old folks likely getting their last driver’s licenses. Not excited, not nervous. And without anyone with them because all their friends and family are dead.
The Pristine City Clerk Worker [Revisited]
No one likes having to go to the Office of the Chicago City Clerk. Not even those who get paid for being there. The desk workers on the first floor in the City Clerk’s office are of the same ilk as DMV workers.
The Beggars Who Choose
So, given my time constraints of rebooting my life in the big city, Hinge.
I Believe… [Mullets]
...that a mullet on a man is silly but a mullet on a woman is an aggressive statement of independence and empowerment in the shadow of the patriarchy.
[Reminder] My Ascent to Greatness Will Not Be Compromised by the Likes of You
When I was twenty, I went to work for a captain of industry. A titan really.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 21, 2024
The universe will always operate with balance. America will always tip the scales.
[Archived] Highlights from My Love Life
My first high school steady
was a computer geek.
I read sci-fi novels
and corrected his college essay.
We tried bondage and anal.
I'm lucky his interest in me
wasn't confined to the cranial.
[Repost] On Becoming Addicted to Misery and The Quest for Psychological Safety
“I’m being mugged” became “I was just mugged” which transformed into “I survived being mugged” to “Did I ever tell you about the time I was mugged?”
I Believe… [The Flipside of Grit]
...that, if grit and industry is something you respect, you have to hand it to thieves who steal catalytic converters because at least they aren’t sitting on the sidewalk with a cup.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 14, 2024
They finally found me. I received a Jury Summons. Was told to bring something to read. Finally, a place where I can confidently read Mein Kampf in public.
I Believe… [Take a Walk]
...that a long walk in a neighborhood you’ve done a million things in is both a reminder of times gone by and a call for something new on old ground.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 7, 2024
I remember being so happy when the Oklahoma City bombing happened. Finally, something on the news that wasn’t OJ. I’ve been chasing that high ever since.
Searching for Harry Callahan
Donald Trump is the 21st Century version of Harry Callahan—borderline racist, brutal in tactics, rogue against the system, sarcastic, and a direct response to a counterculture/pop culture shift that leaves generations in flux.
I Believe… [The Company You Keep]
...that each of us is defined in large and small ways by the people we choose to have in our lives. Be discriminating and choose wisely.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 31, 2024
My business plan is going to be some of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy shit you’ll ever read.
FOMO or LMO
We are social animals and the pull to be a part of things going on is practically irresistible.
I Believe… [Converter Woes]
...that it often takes a minor catastrophe to remind you how much better you are than were.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 24, 2024
My life is a perfectly clean slate floating through a river of late night McDonald’s diarrhea.
What Price to Admit Error? UPDATED
It is statistically impossible for me to be right all the time.
Parsing Out the Language of the 21st Century
“…let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech.”
Jake and Caroline’s first date was at The Whistler. They talked about Ronnie, how much they loved The Diplomat, and debated the better ride-share service, Uber or Lyft. She was Uber, he was Lyft. They got wasted on Sazeracs and had sex at her apartment. It was incredible for both of them. Caroline stopped taking sex advice from Ronnie.