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Work Week Anxiety

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Coming back to work after a week off. It’s stressful like a frying pan of nitro glycerin cooking on high. Did I forget how to do my job? Where is my work again? Will my Key entry card work? Coming back to work after an extended […]

The Other Side of the Pillow

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The fragile filament of life. It’s not fair. It’s not predictable. We are born with the expectation that we will live a long life and die in our sleep with dignity. But life is a street hustler who often deals aces from the bottom of the […]

Sportscenter

You know what’s crazy? i’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The passing of Stuart Scott today. I will write more later, but for now, I wrote this about the show itself, a show he was such a part of. cherish life. ESPN 50,000th sportscenter. It’s a man’s night light. It’s the wife you want and the […]

You really going to eat that?

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ What my son considers food. Pop Tarts? He considers that its own unique and special food group. Filet Mignon? Feed it to the pigs. Ball Park Franks? A gift from the meat packing Gods. Lasagna? Whose stupid idea was this? My son is a culinary anomaly. He […]

New Year’s Resolutions

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight. Stop drinking. Save money. 1/1/15 It’s a new day, a fresh start, a new beginning. Make love not war. The New Year feels shiny and new. I wonder how long it will put 2014 on my checks? 1/1/15 It’s the world’s […]

The Gambler

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Gambler. Is there a smile anywhere in this film? Is there a laugh? Is there a peek of sunshine from behind those dark Ray Ban sunglasses hiding black and blue marks? The Gambler begins sad and it ends a little less sad. The Gambler has […]

Interstellar: a function of time & relativity

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The knowledge needed to appreciate the film, Interstellar. You need a catheter and a physics degree to see this one. The film is almost 3 hours long. I’ve often said no film needs to be 3 hours long. Superfluous scenes lurk everywhere like termites in a haunted […]

Happy Birthday!

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Birthdays. You have one every 365 days. That’s like an epiphany in the white house. Your birthday is a day to stop and reflect. It is a day that brings a myriad of thoughts and emotions. A part of me is a birthday child, sitting in […]

Thin Blue Line

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ A final moment so poignant, so visceral, it brings pride to my soul, and sadness to my heart. The funeral for officer Rafael Ramos is an unprecedented display of blue honor and police pride. There’s an estimated 25,000 police officers. A wave of law enforcement as […]

More Taylor Swift

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The buzz that celebrity generates. I come to the morning meeting and the best story I have is a mulch plant blowing dirty toxins into the air. It covers everyone’s car with filth, it gets in the air conditioning vents. Some people argue it is making […]