another blog

Friend, former colleague, future famous screenwriter and current extra, Evan Schiller, recently started a blog (after achieving mixed results with several "gimmick blogs"). Evan is insightful, witty and full of the youthful enthusiasm that allows for frequent, lengthy posting. Coincidentally, he isn't currently raising a child.

six months

stuffing

Would anyone be opposed to changing the name of Thanksgiving to Stuffing? The whole giving thanks thing is usually an afterthought to – let’s face it – the gluttony that makes the day so magical. As Thanksgiving grows near, what do you look forward to – expressing what you are thankful for or eating yourself into a near-coma?

You stuff the turkey. You stuff yourself. You eat stuffing. Clearly there is a pattern here. The only real change necessary would be to replace the giving of thanks with the telling of tales of gluttony.

I once ate an entire box of Stove Top stuffing (off-season). Future generations would need to hear this anecdote annually and pass it down, embelishing throughout the years. After I die, my son would continue to tell the (true) story of how his father once ate three lobsters at a wedding. He might even bump it up to four.

make it stop

The hold “music” for Travelocity is a never-ending mock conversation between a man and a woman about the company’s features and policies. The man is a little unsure about how things work and makes assumptions, but the woman perkily advises him on what to do. I want to kill them both.

taglines follow up/the best of g.o.

A big thanks to everyone at digg and stumbled upon for all the hits. A welcome result has been some great reader/digg-er generated “honest” taglines. Here are some of my favorites:

Twitter: What are you doing? How about now? ...and now?
Facebook: A free social network. Now valued at $15 billion!
Facebook: Find all the people from your past you've been trying so very hard to forget.
The Internet: Making sure you don't get work done ever!
The Republican Party: We care about children. Until they're born.
Democrats: We care about people. Until they vote for us.
Google: Someday the rest of you will learn how to search.
Google: Are we a verb yet?
Digg.com: You're not surfing the web on company time, you're "Buzz Monitoring".
Walmart: Trying to make you satisfied, with a lower quality of life.
E-Vite: When you care enough to do the very least.
Disney: It's not creepy, it's for kids!
eBay: People buy your crap.

For those new to this blog, here's some of my favorite stuff from the last year and a half:

we are starbucks

fruit: a risk vs. reward analysis

memories of family cars

ikea by southwest

notes from two weeks of parenthood

jewge

a ny doctor’s office

tv

the ninja and the monkey

lounging

saddest cubicle contest

I’m not usually big on links, but after having recently switched jobs, trading in a nice open workspace for a cubicle in the process, this really hit home.

easy there, fella

Just when you think you’ve seen everything the NYC subway has offer (fistfights, open drug use, nudity), you witness a large, angry, seemingly sane man cursing out the automated voice informing passengers of the next stop on a crowded train.

luca and friends on halloween

(he's the miserable one)

underrated / overrated

grilled calamari / fried calamari
Korean food / Thai food
A Cook’s Tour / The Kite Runner
The Wire / Lost
sunrises / sunsets
Hoosiers / Rudy
the ability to tell a good story / a firm handshake
the first day of the NCAA Tournament / The Super Bowl
three-month-old babies / newborns
The Ultimate Fighter / Survivor
Thanksgiving / New Year’s Eve
a long late-night phone call with an old friend / Facebook
the three-pointer / dunking
haikus / fortune cookie fortunes
Fresh Direct / Zipcar
soft-shell crab / lobster
sake / champagne
Dave Attell / Adam Sandler
keeping your phone on vibrate / ringtones
Off the Wall / Thriller
underrated/overrated lists / what’s hot/what’s not lists