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People talk about our social world being all grey area. That nothing is ever really black or white. That all things are open for interpretation. It could mean this, but it could also, if you look at it from another perspective – after a few drinks – in a completely different outfit, mean that. There are no absolute truths. I think that’s a crock of …
This is one of those articles you read and think – shit, I’ve been going about this totally wrong. I went to college. I listen to my mother. I watch the Today Show most mornings. How did I fuck this up so badly? “I’m just keeping my options open.” It’s borderline my credo. Since graduating from college, I have applied it to everything from the …
Please note the impressive inclusion of an image with link, then read the article accessed below and think about it a lot. The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors I’ll be back later with thoughts. This day job is becoming a real commitment… (thank you Erin).
Yeah. No. They’re all good-looking, they live in huge apartments, and one of them said, “Sometimes I cry for no reason.” I could end there, but in due diligence – here’s a recap: The show splices together 8-minute digital video clips that feel like 20-minute home videos to tell the story of a self-absorbed video blogger (vlogger…vom) named Dylan Krieger (Bitsie Tulloch). Dylan’s character is …
So when I was in California last week for work, they picked up the tab for an afternoon at the spa for all of us. We were staying at a sweet resort for sales team meetings all week. As you picture this situation, remember that last week was also my first week working there. I met everybody on Tuesday afternoon, we had dinner and drinks …
Tonight is the premiere of Quarterlife the new, highly-anticipated, digital video shorts that launched as a wildly successful Internet show a little over 6 months ago. NBC picked up the series developed by Marshal Herskovitz and Erik Zwick, the guys behind similarly successful life-angsty My So-Called Life. The buzz over this next project of theirs is huge. Through digital snippet scenes shot home-video style a …
There’s this term you hear frequently in my line of work. To “manage the client’s expectations.” It’s always, “We’ve got to manage the client’s expectations” or “that could get dangerous if we don’t manage the client’s expectations” and sometimes, “she’s very good at managing the client’s expectations.” It’s basically the business equivalent of sitting the kids down and telling them they’re only getting one souvenir …
My parents took a trip into this city this past weekend because I threatened to stop going home to visit them until them came to visit me. I have lived 50 miles from my hometown of Freehold, New Jersey for almost three years. My mother has been here twice. In fairness, it’s hard for more than four people to visit my apartment at one time, …
Valentine’s Day got me thinking about ghosts from my relationships past – and by “relationships” I mean guys I’ve given my number and/or emailed. I decided I have some things to ask these guys who’ve disappeared – some things to ask and some things to say. I have a feeling I’m not alone. Time for a blog social experiment. We ask the questions we’ve been …
You can tell how a person feels about Valentine’s Day by the way they say it. Listen for it. The sentiment is carefully packed inside each syllable just like when people say President Bush or New Jersey. A word like that means people have opinions – strong ones. Add in the fact that the subject at hand is relationships and, more specifically, how they’re expressed …