High on my list of boring conversation topics is boredom itself.
High on my list of boring conversation topics is boredom itself.
For those of you who regularly follow this column (will you both please stand up?), you know I lost my beloved tabby, roommate, buddy and comic foil, Osborn the Magnificent, a few months after he turned 19 last year.
If life were like the TV industry and I were a network executive, these are the 19 things I’d cancel (I had a 20th item but canceled it):
Many of us wish we could send in stunt doubles or even evil twins to withstand the slings and arrows of cringeworthy fortune.
I was surprised to learn a few weeks ago that the Nielsen ratings company was being sold for about 10 billion bucks. “Surprised” because I had no idea it even existed anymore.
Do you have a personal tagline? If not, I got here just in time. You might get popular at any minute. But without a catchy saying to define your essence, you’ll have bubkis (Yiddish for “nothing at all.” Also a smooch from William Frawley’s character on “My Three Sons”).
When I was a kid, Mrs. Payne—my fifth-grade teacher at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in Lakewood, California—said I asked too many questions. I asked her why she thought that. This greatly amused my classmates as I headed out the door to the principal’s office.
Our director of scientific research here at The Goldman State, Ken Eubie Leavitt, sent me a memo yesterday that made up for in enthusiasm what it may have lacked in depth, which perfectly fits this company’s culture.
There has never been a better time to sell your house or condo! Except the last time it had never been a better time and the time before that.
I’m tired of being asked if I’m a robot—especially since the one asking is a computer. Which itself is a robot.