Monthly Archives October 2006

cellar door

The most beautiful phrase I have yet discovered in the depths of Wikipedia’s community-generated word-stew is “reconstituted blood, sweat and tears” in the David Clayton-Thomas article.
To steal a phrase from the Greek language article, it is “useless but sublime.”

i wish i were taller

It’s been raining a lot lately.
Barrie is the only town in a 100 km radius without a photography club. We did just get a Henrys, though.
My boss lives in a fantasy world where I make far more than I actually do and therefore refuses to give me a raise, even one that would put my [...]

undersea adventure

In the end the two whales find each other and they fuck slowly.

lessons learned at the "sales success" training seminar

Be aggressively fake and people will love you for it
Stephen “the facilitator” likes vintage Vespas
Don’t tell prospective clients about your devious plans to rule the world through a complex program of eugenics, plastic ponies and mandatory brain surgery at age six
It doesn’t matter how good the sandwiches were, don’t eat the free soup

liveblogging the tuesday morning "sales success" training seminar: update 2

Seriously. Someone please hack an orbital weapons platform and loose some fiery laser destruction on this hideous and soul-destroying hotel and convention centre.

liveblogging the tuesday morning "sales success" training seminar: update 1

After extensive brainstorming and a few ice-breaking activities it has been determined that someone who cares about me needs to come to the Holiday Inn in Barrie and end my HR-induced suffering.
Also, if you could take out the cheerful guy with the laptop and the shaved head and the goatee I would really appreciate [...]

this job does not involve a robot

Sherry is a teacher now.
Jobs came flying at her and she reached out and grabbed a fistful of English at her old high school. After her first day we met downtown where she said, eloquently and insistently in my ear, soft and sexy like a proposition or a statement of some intimate need, “Tequila.”
The Period [...]