“Get the feeling.”
“People first.”
“The Power of Dreams.”
Horse apples! Seriously, does anybody believe fancy car slogans? Don’t think so. But I do think it’d be fun it the brands could honestly speak their minds.
Here’s my guess at what they’d say…
Read MoreFine, I’ll tell you.
I’ll tell you about my secret master plan.
But you must promise not to tell anyone.
Around the turn of the 19th century, Peter Carl Fabergé designed 50 Easter eggs for the Russian imperial family, each one a masterpiece of craftsmanship.
The Winter Egg is sprinkled with 1,660 diamonds, made from quartz, platinum and gold. The miniature surprise basket that comes inside of it holds another 1,378 diamonds – not too bad!
It’s one of the few eggs that’s neither lost nor catching dust in a museum. When it was auctioned away to the Emir of Qatar in 2002, the reported price was $9.6 million.
I can work with that. But where is it?
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Yesterday, a friend sent me a voice message to tell me that…
I could hear the disappointment in her voice. It was heartbreaking. Clearly, this wasn’t the kind of work they’d imagined for their daughter.
Read MoreSomeone once asked me: “I met this girl who ticks off every box on my list—except she’s slept with 16 guys and cheated. Do I just look past it?”
Knowing nothing else about the pair of them, I tried to gather the facts. Here’s my response:
Of course we know too little to give good advice, but so far, it doesn’t exactly sound like a match made in heaven.
She’s the Road Runner, you’re the Coyote. By the time you’ve made up your mind, she’ll have moved on. I think this time, it’s your turn to run.
PS: Don’t bother packing the checklist.
February 24th, 2017, we’d all finished our last exam and were ready to paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar-taaaaaay.
Whoever picked the club we went to did a good job, because for the first two hours straight, nothing but good old early 2000s music was on.
Then, out of the blue, a piano starts playing. It sounds like a record played on an old gramophone. An electric guitar sets in.
Me and my roommate know what’s up.
In perfect sync, we launch into song like rockets, making a SpaceX event look like a kids’ birthday party firework:
Read MoreTake a look at this little, under-appreciated fella:
I like to call him Trey. Trey is awesome. He’s a thorny dragon.
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Easiest question ever: Digimon.
Before you shun me for picking a kids show, let’s all be selfless for a second. If we’re honest, I think we can all agree we don’t need more good TV shows for adults.
No matter how much I miss King of Queens, How I Met Your Mother and Entourage, there’s plenty of great entertainment for us.
What really breaks my heart is that none of today’s TV shows for kids actually help them grow up. There’s no substance. Just re-runs of old classics for toddlers and, well…
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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
Bzzzzzzt. There it goes again. The only new tech gadget I bought in the past 3 years. A fitness tracker. What my Garmin Vívosmart HR tries to tell me with its soft yet definite vibration is that it’s time to get off my butt and move.
Read MoreYou know how sometimes, celebs forget to remove the price tag on their shoes and then the world goes nuts?
Like the time Anna Kendrick forgot to remove the price tag from her $600+ Casadei Blade pumps. How dare she?
First, I hate to break it to you, but she’s not paying a damn cent for those shoes and second, I apologize: some of those incidents might be on me.
Read MoreThis is an excellent question, as long as you don’t ask it too often. I think everyone should answer it once or twice a year. My guideline is this:
Right now, I’m dedicated to figuring out the work part of this equation.
Here’s where I want to be with it:
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