New England
This morning was very bad. I ate at Taco Bell last night, because I wanted to shovel a load of shit down my throat as quickly as I could. I did this right before I went to sleep. I had Volcano nachos,...
View ArticleThe State of Massachusetts
My uncle, who was born in Ireland and knew plenty about our family’s history of emigration, once told me a voyage on the ship from Southampton to New York cost nearly twice as much as going from...
View ArticleWhy
A child is born in New England. He’s given toys to play with. Stuffed animals to love. He learns to walk, to talk, and to feed himself. He goes to school, where he’s taught to read, write, and do math....
View ArticleWolf Tickets
I’ve told this story several times today. Most people think I’m making it up, but I’m not. I’m not creative enough to think up shit like this on my own. I’ll just write it, and you can decide for...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Mike Rice
I know very little about Mike Rice, other than the fact that he was a very successful basketball coach before he arrived at Rutgers, and that he hasn’t been very successful there. That lack of success...
View ArticleThe Juicer
Here’s another story about my old job.My company inexplicably hired a guy I knew to run my department. People knew I was familiar with him—hence the adverb in the previous sentence—so they asked me...
View ArticleIn the Sand
Growing up, we had a little white Quasar color TV set in the kitchen. My father put it on the table so he could watch while he ate after work. I did the same. I’d come home from school after practice,...
View ArticleTattled
Want some more work advice? I know you do.If you’re ever in a work situation where your coworkers tattle on each other, it’s time to go. Every workplace is a carrier of this disease, but once it’s full...
View ArticleFriday
When I take a shower at someone else’s house, and they have one of those flimsy-ass, attacking shower curtains that insists upon touching me the entire time I’m showering, I become highly skeptical of...
View ArticleBoston
Folks who talk for a living are easily confused.The only people surprised when professionals run toward danger are narcissistic Little Lord Fauntleroy types who’ve never done anything courageous in...
View ArticleBoston
I don’t understand why it matters whether President Obama is referring to the Boston bombings as an “act of terrorism” or not.When explosions happen, and it’s determined that they were the result of...
View ArticleWatertown
I'm amused by all the people on Twitter right now talking about "civil liberties" with regard to the search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown, MA (an area I'm very familiar with, incidentally).Instead...
View ArticleOblivity
When massive, earth-shattering news events happen, life still carries on in some corners of the world—and sometimes those corners happen to be smack-dab in the middle of where these earth-shattering...
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Recommendation
I’m a big fucking dude. Just big, now. No longer fat. I used to be kind of fat. Even though I lifted weights and ran like a maniac, I ate like shit and drank far too much beer. This is no longer the...
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Something Else
Fuck it. Here’s another product review. When I don’t have anything of interest to say, I’ll tell you about some of the useful things I’ve found recently that I like. This is stuff that’s made my life...
View ArticleFriend of Bill W
My name is Robert, and I’m addicted to stupid shit. This addiction has turned me into a very unproductive person, a lackluster friend, and a generally maladjusted dimwit with dwindling reserves of both...
View ArticleModerate Success
Day one of my new discipline enforcement program has been a serious success. I’ve had my most productive workday in months, I plotted out a schedule and stuck to it—including the writing of this blog...
View ArticleExperiment
How do you know whether an idea is stupid or not if you don’t act on it and see what happens?Ideas have always caused me problems. I have lots of them. Some may even be good. Until a few years ago, I...
View ArticleFonts
I have no idea why this entire fucking blog is now in an italicized courier font.What a shit show. Sorry.
View ArticleSituations
The first thing I mentioned last week was my plan to black out all social media and to severely curtail my abusive email checking. For a week now, I’ve taken a serious crack at both of these things. My...
View ArticleAccess
Like all the other suckers looking for shortcuts, I enthusiastically read Tim Ferriss’s The Four Hour Workweeka few years ago. I was really into it at the time because I was stuck in a shitty corporate...
View ArticleThis is Why Business Sucks
If you have talent, you work hard, and you expect the people you work with to have talent and work hard, too, you’re bound to be disappointed. Too often, that’s not how professional life works. When...
View ArticleMoving Day
So, we’ve now come to the point where I’m finally doing something I should have done years ago: I’m moving this blog to a new website with a dedicated domain name and a WordPress blog platform.The...
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