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On Jason Mraz and Minor League Free Agents1 comment

Michael wrote 1 week ago: Today, we have a first in Phrontiersman history, a tortured metaphor that gets stretched over 2 post … more →

Tags: Offseason 2009-10, Bull Durham, Jason Mraz, Minor League Free Agents, Offseason Scrap Heap Digest

Regrets, I've Had Few

twins4reading wrote 2 weeks ago: …but on of them isn’t reading Swann’s Way (by the way the subject post and this fi … more →

Tags: Swann's way, creepiness, Frank Sinatra, George Sand, hunchback of notre dame, My way, Paul Anka, Quasimodo, Secret Garden

On Dish Chairs and Non-tendered Free Agents2 comments

Michael wrote 2 weeks ago: In the summer of 2005, I was shopping with my dad for things I might need for my dorm in my freshman … more →

Tags: Offseason 2009-10, Free Agency, JUSTIN MILLER, Mike Fontenot, Offseason Scrap Heap Digest, Scott Olsen

My Two Great Loves

Michael wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m sorry I kept my head low in the three days since the Phillies finally gave up the ghost, b … more →

Tags: 2008-09 Season, General Bull, Love and Romance, World Series Reaction

Balloon Boy and Job Search Basics

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: The news cycle was abuzz last week with the story of a boy who accidentally flew off in his father … more →

Tags: Job Search, Self Preservation, Advice, Employment, Good Habits, lessons learned the hard way, Mistakes, Try this at home

What Taylor Hicks Can Teach You About Career Maintenance7 comments

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: Today, I was going through the newspaper when I noticed an advertisement for an upcoming performance … more →

Tags: Job Search, Self Preservation, Celebrities, Employment, Essential Information, Good Habits, lessons learned the hard way, Personal Branding, PERSONAL MOTIVATION

How "Top Chef" is the Perfect Workplace

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: This might come as a surprise to you, especially given what I had to say about being a chef in this … more →

Tags: Self Preservation, Food, work lessons, Editorial, Television, Office Politics

The Common Sense Approach to Office Politics

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: So now that you’ve finally used common sense to get the job, how do you go about keeping it an … more →

Tags: Self Preservation, Advice, Common Sense, Employment, Good Habits, Office Politics, Suggestions, Try this at home

climbing mountains and social media.3 comments

insidetimshead wrote 3 months ago: One of the quickest ways to flummox an Adirondack mountaineer is to say you’ve come to the are … more →

Tags: Web, Social Media, twitter, facebook, Connections, Adirondacks

What I've been doing since 6:307 comments

Mark Gisleson wrote 3 months ago: Late to bed, early to rise. Clean living has its consequences and my body has renewed its bad habit … more →

Tags: Movies, capitalism, Healthcare, Wall Street, toles, healthcare insurance, Bipolarity, endrunning the bitter enders

Bob Wobble and your job search

Andrew wrote 3 months ago: The other day, I was at my favorite purveyor of massage chairs and Skymall catalog-esque items in th … more →

Tags: Job Search, Self Preservation, Employment, Advice, Essential Information, work lessons, Try this at home, Interviewing Tips

Extended metaphor week begins here!

Andrew wrote 3 months ago: So the problem with talking about job searches, hunting for careers, dishing out advice on getting h … more →

Tags: Site Related, the blog

Blog Chain: What Kind of Writer Are You?4 comments

Lin wrote 6 months ago: Kim started us off this week with an intriguing question: what kind of writer are you? It’s go … more →

Tags: Blog Chain, * Mystica *, flash fiction, Novel, Poetry

email6 comments

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: Ginnesburg is not dead, I think.   A sad sad sad sign of the times: he is writing email titles for t … more →

Tags: derivitive poetry, literary poetry, Allen Ginnesburg, eMail, Pornography, Spam

Under

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: Bits of scalp And lumps of flesh Mar the reflective chrome.   The jolly orange-yellow Of the long bo … more →

Tags: figures of speech, hung out to dry, thrown under the bus

Early Morning Alchemy

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: With a twist of my wrist I will start that water flowing. The sink is a magical river.   It will com … more →

Tags: snap shots of every day life, Coffee, Coffee Machine, Dawn, making cofee, Morning, Tired, wake up!!!, waking up

A Transfiguration

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago:   A transfiguration  She felt the happenings deep inside of her; Not a change but something deeper. … more →

Tags: snap shots of every day life, adolescence, Identify, Loss, Sell Out

I, this crowd

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: I, this crowd Whose legion is not demons But ghosts Ghosts made in my mind They’ve traveled fo … more →

Tags: snap shots of every day life, healing, carrying hurt

A bag full of Crickets

jeffsdeepthoughts wrote 1 year ago: Was the cruelty accidental?  To those little things it does not matter. Some minimum wage slave hung … more →

Tags: snap shots of every day life, Metaphor, Crickets, Predator, Prey, pet store, Cruelty


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