Howdy y’all. Yeah, I know it’s been awhile since I graced the internet with a new post. To be honest, the rigid standards I placed on myself with Letters From The Past during...
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Lawn Hopping
Today’s foray into verbal brilliance comes to you as a result of the efforts of the first actress (reportedly) to ever appear nekid on film. I’m talking about Hedy Lamarr. Of course...
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Authoritarians & Art Teachers
As I sat here on the bed tonight with the laptop strategically placed on a lap tray in front of me, Juniorette came in, stole some of my chocolate and got all uppity and...
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Blue Shirt Thuggery
“Does that mean that everything that’s happened here in the last ten minutes will probably show up out there on the web?” Jump back in time a few minutes before when I was...
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Still Puttin’ Up Ugly
The real problem here is that one grenade just isn’t going to be enough to fix what’s wrong. Easy as that. Ladies and gentlemen, at the end of 2011 I was so...
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Don’t Be Late
Stanley could trace some of his earliest concerns about being late for work or school to when he was the impressionable age of five. The events of that particular morning all those years ago...
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The Weight Of The Matter – Part IV: You Don’t Really Need It
The intern stopped in the doorway with a back turned to the audience and stood there for a moment, head hung low as if to find written on the floor the right words to...
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The Weight Of The Matter – Part III: Letting Them Give It To You
“I’ll go.” Said the next volunteer, as they deactivated the note taking application on the smart phone. “I’ve got some handouts for everyone.” Each meeting participant received a printed PowerPoint presentation. The manager’s had...
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The Weight Of The Matter – Part II: Taking It From Them
For the next three hours, each of the interns worked feverishly and furiously in the best way they knew how in order to respond to the task at hand. The benefit of a winning...
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The Weight Of The Matter – Part I: The Assignment
In the middle of a government owned office building strategically placed close enough to the goings on of Washington DC to maintain a presence, yet far enough away not to be subject to its...
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