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LinkedOut

Posted on June 8, 2018 by JMN

I’d like to record how fruitless my multi-year meander in LinkedIn has proven. Full disclosure: I never sought employment on LinkedIn. My work history doesn’t define me — I’ve disliked most of my jobs. Why trot out a lackluster record … Continue reading →

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Whoa where?

Posted on June 1, 2018 by JMN

— Whoa where? — Hurricane season is coming. Protect your liquor cabinet: Batten down the hooches! — Plural of “burnoose”: “burnooses” or “burneese”? — Drunk and Orderly — Thought thoroughly through. Tough though. — If you say baba ghanouj, I’ll … Continue reading →

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The creepiness of the creepy

Posted on May 24, 2018 by JMN

We become benumbed and resigned to it. Around 2011, it dawned on me that things I mentioned in personal emails, and the objects of my searches, would crop up in online advertisements. First I was mystified, then stupefied. My online … Continue reading →

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“I believe in aristocracy…”

Posted on May 23, 2018 by JMN

“I believe in aristocracy… if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members … Continue reading →

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Sayings

Posted on May 20, 2018 by JMN

“Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.” (Francis Picabia) “Extremism makes you stupider.” (David Brooks) Hard part of riding a tiger is getting off. (Chinese saying?) “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, then waiting for the … Continue reading →

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Facing Facebook

Posted on May 19, 2018 by JMN

I haven’t deleted Facebook. That would amount to locking the door after the assassin has entered the house. I open FB in order to dismiss notifications. Then I quickly exit, like slamming a window shut to keep a hornet from … Continue reading →

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The Snout

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

The snout of a maintainer is a blunt piece of overstatement at the insect level. What’s not to love? No wonder so many movie monsters have been buggish. It’s cold comfort, yet assuaging, to reflect that when we mammals croak … Continue reading →

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Happy Words

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

A ninja of the recondite… Queasy pudding… Codwalloping colossus… Like Puritans and Papists… In Shakespeare’s “King Henry IV, Part 2,” when the King says the rebels are fifty-thousand strong, Warwick gently chides him saying, “Rumour doth double, like the voice … Continue reading →

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Becky Hammon

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

“My job is to be the best that I can be, and if that changes your mind, then great. But I can’t be consumed with how you feel about me.” (Becky Hammon, 5′-6″-tall basketball champion and contender for top coach … Continue reading →

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Keepsakes — Bess forgets

Posted on May 5, 2018 by JMN

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