How to break the internet #273
Outlaw use of the phrase, "Let's dive right in."
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The Very Short Blog with The Very Long Name
Adam
Jul 5, 20231 min read
The time being
What if there was this entity called The Time Being. Would you do things for him?
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Adam
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Dog smart
I tried teaching my dog to write my business correspondence, but I've given it up as a lost cause. A waste of time. He simply couldn't...
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Adam
Jul 3, 20231 min read
What you remember
You often remember something complimentary that someone said about you. Like when the head of my graduate program in musical theatre...
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Adam
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Ear-Cleaning Face
Why is it that when cleaning the ear canal with your pinky finger in the shower, you purse your lips and stretch out your face? (I am...
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Adam
Jun 30, 20231 min read
I dreamt I was a Serbian woman
I dreamt I was a Serbian woman, some sort of spy. My task was to place a package in a closed office building in the western suburbs of...
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Adam
Jun 26, 20232 min read
Advice for New Parents
I have been giving one piece of advice to new parents. It grew out of a task I managed to complete recently after putting it off for...
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Adam
Jun 24, 20231 min read
Exercise by association
Saw a guy at the gym. He wasn’t exercising. I saw him at the chest fly machine. He sat there for the requisite two minutes or maybe a bit...
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Adam
Jun 23, 20231 min read
No-potism
See, I was clueless on the whole nepotism thing. As a songwriter, what might be something that could help me find success? Well, I could...
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Adam
Jun 19, 20232 min read
The Zoom Where it Happens
In this new age, we have had to learn an entirely new set of behavioural signals and norms. I say "have had to learn" as if we had...
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Adam
Jun 16, 20231 min read
C'mon now.
You can't tell me that <3 looks like a heart. Clearly, it's a busty garden gnome. (Picture stolen from Etsy)
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Adam
Jun 14, 20231 min read
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
We’re moving to the Philippines in a little under two months. I went bike riding about two weeks ago and I was really, really cold, and I...
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Adam
Jun 13, 20231 min read
The Steinberg Rule
I taught my kids the Steinberg Rule. The Steinberg Rule is that if you see something on the ground and you pick it up, you own it. You...
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Adam
Jun 10, 20231 min read
Handy challenge
Does anyone really think that if they saw a bunch of pictures of the backs of people’s hands, like 100 of them, they would know their own?
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Adam
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Comma dilemma
This blog will attempt to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., except where it doesn't. Chicago, you may know, prefers that...
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Adam
Jun 8, 20231 min read
Meaty problem
What do turkeys think of “turkey sausage”? I bet they are royally pissed off. “What, you’re going to kill me and make pretend I am...
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Adam
Jun 4, 20231 min read
Sympathy?
It worries me that yesterday, a kid near me on the street started crying, the kind with a scream followed by a series of sobs that set...
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Adam
Jun 3, 20231 min read
Baggage-claim roulette
If all the people waiting for bags at the airport would just stand back one meter from the belt, the entire process would be a great deal...
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Adam
Jun 2, 20231 min read
Third post
This is the third post. You either love it, or you hate it.
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Adam
Jun 1, 20231 min read
Welcome to The Very Short Blog with The Very Long Name
Known to millions* as "TVSBTVLN," this blog has the goal to inspire, entertain, amuse, and occasionally enlighten with words of whimsey...
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