Category: Thoughts
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What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part III
What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part III A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and start with Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part III: Okay, I’m here. Now what? Imposter…
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What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II
What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part II A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. If you’re just learning this now, go back and Read Part I: Before Blue’s Clues. Part II: I Got the Job! Getting in: The…
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What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I
What I Learned From Working on Blue’s Clues • Part I A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away… I worked on a little TV show called Blue’s Clues. Maybe you’ve heard of it. If you haven’t, that’s okay. You can catch up on the show’s Wikipedia page. It was an immensely popular…
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You’re going to die anyway.
You’re going to die anyway. “You know you’re going to die anyway, right?” It was 1999 and I had just temporarily moved into my Uncle John’s studio apartment in New York City. He very generously let me stay with him while I found an apartment for my family. After several years of trying to break…
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Now is so… now
I’m going to be starting dinner soon, but I wanted to get something down here because I’ve been neglecting the blog lately. I’m making vegan burgers and fries. Not quite a gourmet meal, but we all love some comfort food. Anyone else could make it, and I can make lots of other things, but like…
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50
Today I turned 50. Fifty years old. Half a century. Roman numeral L. They say that age is just a number and mathematically they are right. Aside: Over the next 50 years, I’d like to devote my life to finding who the people are behind the mysterious “they.” Okay, so not the whole 50, maybe…
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Smoke
cough. cough. cough. ahem. I am feeling super lazy, so for this post I decided to illustrate the sky above Los Angeles right now. It’s filled with smoke, even though the fires are miles away. It’s like living inside a campfire, except there are no marshmallows coming. The CDC says that being outside right now…
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Labor Day Los Angeles, 2020
A Haiku what do we watch now wrong week to stop drinking hey, let’s wash some masks
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What’s Better Than a Midlife Crisis Miata?
A few days ago, a friend posted a photo of a guitar amp that he just bought. In the caption he mentioned going through a midlife crisis, but at least it wasn’t a Miata. First I laughed, then I Googled “Midlife Crisis Miata” because I didn’t know that was a thing. Yup. It’s a thing.…
