another live blog from the career management conference! glenn olien works in employment/career counselling in the construction industry warning: aptly, since this is about chaos theory in counselling, these notes will be somewhat chaotic, more than the two live blogs before. kind of like twitter on...

Sorry for the lack of posting here, my friends. As always, LIFE has been hectic these days. However, as usual, I've got a lot of stuff on my mind that needs an outlet. Until I find some free time to write a real post, here are some cocktail napkin scribblings: ATTACK OF THE QUEEN BEES This past ...

NEVER BET AGAINST BLACK For the past two weeks, I’d been hyping up the Super Bowl to my daughter. I told her how it was a magical day filled with all-you-can-eat ribs, baked beans, and more creamed corn than she could ever envision. Naturally, as she always does these days, she looked at me like I...

It's taken a long while, but after numerous cogent arguments, I've become convinced that Matt Yglesias is absolutely right when he says we should be terrified, half to death, about robots. Even the Five-Diamond whorebots that Eliot Spitzer wants our nation's public schools to fashion for him, in his...

A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

LATHER, RINSE...REPEAT! Although I curse like a fucking sailor, I'm extremely diligent in never doing this in front of the Peanut. Toddlers are experts at parroting anything they hear from their parents. Things that you whisper under your breath will come back to haunt you. Maybe not tomorrow or nex...

I feel the need to say something that we’ve all been thinking for quite some time: Ryan Reynolds is the anti-Dane Cook. This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone. It’s a revelation I had a while ago that came to the front of my mind after seeing Reynolds in Chaos Theory . It seems p...

AND SO IT BEGINS... Recently my 3.5-year-old daughter has gotten into the habit of rolling her eyes at me and sighing. Are you freaking kidding me? It starts that early? I thought I had at least another 5 years. Oh well...at least she doesn't give me the hand and say "whatevah!" TV: TOOL O...

UMM. THANKS, COACH! Yesterday, my not-quite-3.5-year-old daughter smacked me on the butt and said, "Nice job today, Daddy. I'm really proud of you!" IF HILLARY HAD WON, THEY'D HAVE GONE WITH "VANILLA ICE" After John Edwards dropped out of the race, Ben Cohen and Jerry Grenfield, ...

Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thrillers, Trailer Trash, Trailers and Clips Once again, order and logic have deserted me, left me behind like a half-eaten bag of movie theater popcorn (extra butter, of course). Try though I might, there's no common theme under which I can group five trailers, s...