Comments on Sardonic Shock Syndrome: Appocalypse Special! Ancient Secrets Revealed!

2010-04-05T07:02:38.843-07:00

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I was very much living the plot of "Office Sp...

2009-11-13T21:06:33.722-08:00

I was very much living the plot of "Office Space." One of the things I love about that movie is that in addition to being very funny, it just came about at exactly the right time and struck exactly the right pitch. All my friends and I were twenty-something, working in IT and pretty much hating it all while thinking we could be doing something much, much better with our time.

Well, most of us - some of us went on to be kick-ass professionals in the industry.

Anyway, the building never did burn down, but some of the companies I worked for are dangerously close to going under, and so the situation is the same in kind if not by degree.

I have two friends who teach in urban school syste...

2009-11-13T10:14:53.622-08:00

I have two friends who teach in urban school systems (one in the Bronx in NYC and the other in Detroit Public Schools) and they both tell me all of their students are 100% convinced the scenario postulated in "2012" is Really Going To Happen. And nothing will convince them otherwise.

And: were you living the plot of "Office Space" in real life? Did someone mysteriously burn down your workplace?