Back in the late ’70s, a poster hung in my high school guidance counselor’s office. It was part of a college recruitment campaign called Work Smart Not Hard. In the long history of bad advice, you’d have to look pretty hard to find something dumber than this. And yet, the expression is still with us.
So…with a little creative license (and no respect for the original), I’m pleased to present a new platitude with a different attitude.
This is the worst advice I’ve ever seen. Who’s with me?
Last night I saw The Dandy Warhols at The Fillmore. One of the best shows I’ve seen in years.
It’s working …
For many years, some other guy named Mike Rowe owned mikerowe.com. He didn’t do anything with it, but he nevertheless refused to sell it for what I felt to be a reasonable sum. I saw this as a sign from above, and an ideal excuse to not launch my own personal website.
Kristen thinks this spectrogram of my voice is pretty. Whatever.
The other week on Deadliest Catch, deckhand Zack Larson was pretty well lambasted by the narration. Here I present a different view of what might have been broadcast.
To sum up, Happy Father’s Day, Dad, three weeks in advance. And Happy Memorial Day, right on time.
So I was in Springfield (Illinois) yesterday, and took a tour of a trade school called MTI. These guys have an 85% job placement rate and I wanted to see what they were all about.
So I was in Springfield (Illinois) yesterday, and took a tour of a trade school called MTI. These guys have something like an 85% job placement rate for graduates, and I wanted to see what they were all about. I’m glad I did. Halfway through the tour, a group of guys approached me to say thanks. I didn’t know what they were talking about, but said “you’re welcome” anyway, because well … it’s polite. As it turns out, these guys all received scholarship funds from mrW. I had no idea. I knew MTI was on the list of schools whose Read More
Apologies in advance to all serious musicians.
Everything in the picture is real. Though virtually nothing is genuine.
Anybody see Leno the other night?
In this week’s mail call, I address everything from having an independent TV show to “5 minutes in the closet.”
I came to NOLA for a few days to work on a project with Ford, and stopped by a few work sites to say hello and slow things down.
