December 2008
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You Do What While Driving?
Late Christmas Eve afternoon, while driving my daughter to the skating rink, I spotted a roadsign about California’s no texting and driving law, which goes into effect Jan. 1. I just chuckled. Who the hell texts and drives? At the ice rink, I mused to two friends: “What kind of world do we live in that there has to be a law to stop people from texting and driving.”
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“If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by...”
– John Paczkowski, on the 168-hour work week, from PEW Internet study released today.
Do you have a work life story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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Alaska Jargon
Finally, something interesting to talk about Alaska other than Sarah Palin. Today Jean McDermott posted 22 terms familiar to Alaskans but not necessarily to other Americans. (Alaska is America, right?) Hey, Mainers would know some of these terms, too.
The first one baffled me, because it’s recognizable: Bunny boots. I should have known what they were, but actually Googled to find out....
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WatchI’m usually critical of ad campaigns produced by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the agency Burger King and Microsoft use. This Whopper marketing video is unusual for its cross-cultural approach. That I like. Clearly people who have never seen a hamburger go oddly together with the Whopper.
But there are negative anthropological, cultural-pollution aspects that bug me. The marketing video and...
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Remembering Lennon
December 8, 1980, I was volunteer fundraising in New York City. I beat the street until late and beat to bed around midnight. I lived in a group house a few blocks south of Columbia University on the Upper West Side.
I crawled out of bed around 8:30 a.m. on the 9th, a Tuesday. I recall bouncing down the stairs, laughing as I moved along. In those days, I was skinny and bushy blonde and always...
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Doggy Style
I just got home from a party with friends. Climbing out of the car I heard what sounded like a dog whiny barking. But no. From the second-floor window in the house across the street, a woman was having an orgasm. That’s the second neighbor in about a week.
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“I know because I read it in The New York Times—and I remember because I...”
– —Jerry Flint, “General Motors: Myths And Reality”; Forbes.com, 12/5/2008
Do you have an automaker story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
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“Cyber Monday? That’s the same week as Pink-Slip Tuesday and Foreclosure Friday,...”
– —John Paczkowski
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