Tuesday, December 15, 2009
I have recently come to the terrible realization that readers of this little blog may not fully understand my posts — by which I mean, people don’t seem to find my posts to be very funny. Upon further examination of this matter, I then came to the more terrible and disturbing realization that readers of [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Criticism is a bitter medicine to swallow. This is why Dale Carnegie, self-improvement guru and writer of How to Win Friends & Influence People (don’t knock it until you’ve read it), warns that to criticize is “dangerous” because it “wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his [or her] sense of importance, and arouses resentment”. Me? [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
Everybody loves good dialogue. Which is to say that everybody loves a good conversation. Name a single person in this whole wide world–go ahead, I challenge you!–whose heart and mind does not openly, or at least secretly, leap, pirouette, and whirligig at the particularly witty, insightful, or humourous, or best yet, witty, insightful, and humourous exchange of sentences between two people. [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
O Patience(!), too often you elude my desperate grasps as I plummet into the pit of passion!
At exactly 11pm I decide to go for a quick walk around the neighborhood. The weather’s been quite chilly lately, so I bundle up. When I say “quite chilly”, I mean cold enough for me that I shrivel and mentally brace myself every time I leave the comfort of a heated room. There’s an actual [...]
Dan Kennedy didn’t look at all like what I’d assumed he would. If I had to guess, the voice I listened to in my iPod belonged to man in his early thirties—tall, brown hair, chiseled face, dapperly dressed, and quietly handsome in an intellectual manner. He donned a sophisticated pair of spectacles that rested high [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Is there anything in this world as delicious-feeling as arriving home after an eleven-hour-long trip, taking a warm shower, and then filling a hungry stomach with warm, deliciously marinated tofu and an icy cold, sweet, and slightly tart orange? No, there isn’t. The flavours of this orange that are currently bursting in my mouth as I type [...]