My story about my About Me story was published 2 years ago in About Me Stories — Almost two years ago I published My about me story in the About Me Stories publication. It was a pub that would publish anybody. This worked because two years ago after 4 months of publishing on Medium I was still absolutely nobody. I’ve been writing online for over 25 years…

How to stay in business when your customers keep dying — This week it hit home. A couple in my social circle lost their 20 year old son to an overdose. They did everything they could to help him. He had been living on the street for months. …

The Turn Back the Clock take me home incident — The first real rave I attended was Turn Back the Clock. The name of the party was in reference to the 1996–1997 New Year’s Eve party in Los Angeles that became known as the New Year's Rave Riot. The Turn Back the Clock party was supposed to rewind our tear…

I’m breaking first rule of Fight Club to give you the deets — The hottest buzzword in the personal development blogosphere right now is quiet quitting. The phrase echoes the sentiment of today’s young workforce who have become disillusioned with the ideal that hard work will eventually pay off. If you haven’t read one of the thousands of stories on Medium about it…

The Saddest Thing Ever Aired on TV Was Animated — One of the most remarkable things about the media we consume is how it can affect us. More specifically media can affect our mood by making people feel emotions. Comedies make you happy, the news makes you mad, and coffee commercials around Christmas can bring a tear to your eye…

The 10 things I can’t stand about Windows 11 on my new PC — Last time, I was attempting to convince myself that the M1 Mac Mini made more sense than a new PC. I needed a new computer for video editing and rendering. It was $1500 for a new PC. Mac Mini refurbs were going for $550. Okay, I’m getting a Mac then. …

Odd choices for movie adaptations and why they exist — Original ideas are hard. It’s all been done before; it’s all been said before. According to Christopher Booker’s 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots, if you strip any watchable movie down to its core, there’s only 7 plots for all movies. The reason that there’s millions of movies released with…

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat — Every couple of months a writer publishes bunch of unbelievable numbers and all the punters go, “Ooh!” Giving that person instant credibility. People who have been writing on Medium for a couple of months will hit on a couple of stories in a row or one big one and they…

Celebrities make music videos that are embarrassing for us all — Actors want to be musicians like musicians want to be actors. Musicians wanting to be actors have a better chance at making it than actors wanting to be musicians. Why? Because music requires skill and all acting requires is a pulse and CGI effects in post-production. Whatever happened to that…