Month: January 2011
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Aside from treasure maps and ransom notes, there are few communications worth parsing for hidden/secret meanings. Doesn’t stop us from reading into everything from our doctor’s…
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Chicago got it wrong; it isn’t hard to say I’m sorry, it’s easy, too easy even. We’re now conditioned to apologize by instinct. Sorry, wrong number. Oops, sorry for stepping on your foot, for not hitting the elevator button in time, for loitering in the cereal aisle when you were trying to reach a box…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Money trumps self-actualization and anyone who tells you otherwise obviously has no trouble paying their bills or can no longer remember a time when they did.…
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Grow my hair into a long, flowing mane Rejected because: People would just mistake it for a wig, anyway. Again. Don’t yell at my parents’ dog when I visit Rejected because: Yelling is the only way to be heard over the barking. Photo by Stepheye Get fragrance named after me. Refer to it as my…
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Wondering what happened to that particular plan? I wrote a piece for the folks at Thought Catalog that explains it all.
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