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Oscar and the Grouch
Oscar and theĀ Grouch
Another year, another Academy Awards has passed, and I barely blinked an eye. What? I donāt love the pageantry, the ādramaā of whether Leo finally won an Oscar, the spectacle of whoās wearing who? Well, no, I donāt. And thankfully, Iāve heard that there are others like me out there. Well, like me in the sense that I donāt care who wins what Oscar this year. āBut Mateo, youāre in a creative field,ā¦
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Street Walkers vs. Side Walkers
During the course of any day, I notice a lot of things which make me scratch my head. Well, scratch my head or go full-on facepalm, anyway. One of the more common head scratch/facepalm inducersĀ Iāve seen lately are street walkers. No, not THOSE street walkers, but the people who are walking on the street, next to a perfectly good sidewalk made for, you know, walking. So why, I asked myself, doā¦
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Defensive Driver Profiling
Though I take public transportation regularly, I also make my 40-plus-mile work commute by car often. Then thereāsĀ the weekends, where each trip seems to takeĀ 30 or more minutes for various reasons. So yeah, I still do a lot of driving.
With all that driving, Iāve developed profiles of people who drive certain cars. Yes, I support driver profiling as a means of defensive driving. Here are someā¦
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Wut's Inn Uh Knayme?
Whatās in a name, or, āwutās inn a knaymeā as you could theoretically spell that question?
Well, in my previous post, I expounded on why I loathe getting all ācreativeā when it comes to naming children. While I mentioned a few of the infractions Iāve witnessed, here weāll look at theĀ current list (yes, Iāve been keeping a list) as of this writing.
One point of clarification, though. This list isā¦
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Spelling Gone Awry - Baby Names Edition
Spelling Gone Awry - Names Edition
Bee awnest. Iff aye rote liek thyss, yoo kud prawbuhblee styll reed it, buht yoo wud liekely theenk aye wuzz sum unejewcayted mowāron.
Oh God, it hurts. Time to switch off the baby name filter.
āWhat do you mean ābaby name filterā?ā you might be thinking. The style of writing (yes, Iām using the term loosely) at the beginning of this entry embodies what some people are doing with their kidsāā¦
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Give and Take
At the core of my writings here is the belief that we should treat each other well.Ā How this evidences itself takes many forms, but for this entry, Iām going to speak to the idea of give and take.
On Facebook, there is a group entitled āOh IāmĀ sorry, IĀ forgot IĀ only exist to you when you need something from meā which I have to believe was founded in the wake of too many slights from people onceā¦
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Absentee Dining
While I was dining out recently, I noticed a phenomenon not new by any means, but one I thought Iād tackle here for the first time.
Looking around me, roughly a third of the tablesā occupants were continuously or repeatedly diverting their attention from their companions to spend some quality time with their phones. Iām not saying Iām wholly guiltless in this, but more often than not if Iām usingā¦
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Haters Gonna Hate
Before we begin today, letās be clear on one thing. I donāt ally myself with any political party. Not because I donāt have beliefs about this or that, but rather because I see abhorrent behavior from too many people who consider themselves staunch [fill in the party]s.
What too many people refuse to see is that when you are unwaveringly committed to something as contentious as a political party,ā¦
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Getting What You Deserve
My blog entry today looks at suing your parents for what you "deserve" because you're a brat.
One of the reasons I started this blog was to expound on the bad behavior I see all around us. Recently, the world got to know Rachel Canning, an 18-year-old (read: legally an adult) from New Jersey who is suing her parents. I sincerely hope Iām not alone in my assertion that Rachel is whatās wrong with a lot of America today.
Rachel had been an honor student and athlete at her posh privateā¦
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