My father was/is a rather laid back guy. He’s got his buttons, though. College basketball, Bill Bidwell, Ryan Braun: All guaranteed to start the man spinning like a top. But his biggest button? The two words you can say and then step back and watch him lose his fucking mind? “Mel Brooks.”  My father hates Mel […]

It’s budget time at work. For the past twenty-six years and eight employers, it’s the same thing every damn year. “Find a way to spend it or we won’t get as much next year.” I’m cheap. I’m frugal. I’ve also never been the manager in charge of a budget. I would have been the guy […]

We measure our lives the way we measure our history, in paradigm shifts. Paradigm shifts are the universe’s way of saying “Duh, dumbshits, you didn’t think of that before? SRSLY?” I’m talking about the small realizations that divide our lives –and sometimes the very existence of our species– into “Before” and “After.” “Hey Thag, you ever notice […]

I am finally at the stage of my life where I love women because they are women and not in spite of the fact that they are women. Really. Women are weird. They are wired differently. Sometimes that skewed wiring drives me and my fellow Y-chromosomers batshit crazy. Sometimes it’s wonderful. I want to devote […]

Before my career pivot to Technical Writing, I began paying the bills (technically before I even finished college) working in Corporate Video. In that respect, I was phenomenally lucky. Only two guys in my graduating class of 30 people in the Television program got jobs in the industry. I was one of them. I loved […]