The over-prioritization of work through the lens of soon-to-be nuggets.
Why did the chicken run into traffic?


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The over-prioritization of work through the lens of soon-to-be nuggets.

The DEAD STAR PRESS website is officially live. Our brand new independent press is now fully operational. Please go to DEADSTARPRESS.com and check out our first promotional release, Thought & Other Absurdities (a compilation of my blog posts and a few extras), our call for submissions, and our logo merchandise. Get a free bookmark with [...]

I’ll have the literacy with extra cheese and pepperoni. If they made retro Pizza Huts with red cups, jukeboxes, a couple of video games, and the pizza buffet and did Book It promotions for adults, it would change the world. Back then, the red cup was still only half-full, but there were refills in the [...]

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When someone mentions "The Good Book," I always assume they are speaking of Slaughterhouse-Five. I think the world would be a kinder, gentler place if we based more of our morality on Vonnegut's works rather than the books many of us revere. He passed in April of 2007, but I think of him whenever I [...]