kewlheretic

‘no man is a failure, who has friends’ – It’s a beautiful life Friend /frɛnd/Old English frēond , of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’, shared by free . Free /friː/ able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another. This  is not an article about NBC's beloved and highly successful TV show, no, what this is, is an appreciation for a little thing called Friendship. After all, who wants to go through the Mordors of Middle-Earth (for us mere mortals) without worthy companions like Sam, Pippin and Merry   Mary, friends to believe in you, nudge you in the right direction, pull you up when you're down or wrestle the Gollums of life with you (sorry, I love Lord Of The Rings).  Of all human relationships, Friendships are probably the least prioritized and the most sacrificial. Parents, romantic partners and offspring are put above it. So what's so special about them, that makes them so endearing? Well ...

Rummaging through my stuff I found a draft I wrote 6 years ago, enjoy. Honestly, corporate interviews suck, and are senseless! I mean what makes sense in a bunch of smug, pompous suits bombarding a guy with questions that supposedly enable them to gain insight into a person’s persona and ability when really, the interviewee can’t be honest or be him or herself in the first place? I mean you have toiled your ass off in order to get here and hope you’re selected among the other numerous zombies applying for the same job….why do you have to lie? The fortunate ones; dream chasers, trust fund holders, inheritance bound kids, and nepotistic minions don’t have to go through this, It’s anything but a fair process, unfortunately we would say or do anything just to get hired. I recently went for an interview and will now parody that occasion, replacing what I said with what I wanted to. Check it out… Disclaimer: If you’re broke, don’t try this at an interview or in fact anyw...

Gee, let’s face it gents we’ve all been there, undecided, unable to cut our losses, wondering what the repercussions of making a choice will be, but some even have it harder when that choice means choosing one of two very different, but similarly special women. That being said, a particular young man from Riverdale has had little to worry about for a while now (CW reboot aside), for 78 years Archie Andrews has co-dated or separately dated Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge at one time or the other - two friends who are as different as their hair colour but share a common desire and fondness for the ginger haired lad. It’s a real head ringer to fathom how given a situation like that, Archie still sucks air, he’s having the best of both worlds and it doesn’t look like it’ll be stopping anytime soon, but then again we don’t share Archie’s perpetual youthfulness or immunity towards aging, so while he’s in no haste to make a life altering decision, we are usually hard pressed for ...

I have looked into the abyss, and the abyss has looked into me. Neither liked what we saw. - Brother Theodore As I sit in my cubicle, staring at my monitor, hot cup of coffee in hand, looking up the latest business news on Bloomberg, a routine I’ve become accustomed to every working day for some time now, but one I still approach with daily lethargy, my buttoned up collar tightly caressing my neck as though, I’m primed for the hangman. There’s an opaque blandness to all of it and it’s a feeling I am yet to become accustomed to. I feel bereft of purpose here, daily pangs of emptiness plague me, I yearn for more, to feed a passion, to matter, to truly contribute, I yearn…for fulfillment.  I should not be here, I don’t belong here, I feel stifled and that neck tie becomes tighter by the minute, I’m a square peg in a round hole. Like most of my peers I work at a white collar job, earn a decent pay slip  and with some dedication, commitment and a dash of sycophancy  co...

16 years ago two teenagers were seated ‘bored to death’  after exhausting the recommended daily allowance of video gaming;  the inevitable repercussion of a one sided series of playoffs on Winning Eleven (PES for the uninitiated) that had lost its novelty. They decided to watch some TV, the vanquished grabs the TV remote and flips through the channels, he settles on MTV; (back when Music Television actually played music) there’s a music video on, he exclaims, ‘Oh I really like this song!’ he's seen it before,  the video parodies the ubiquitous boy band era of the 90s and has a very catchy tune to it, the other kid moves his gaze to the television, the video is amusing, but the first kid was right, it was a really good song! That kid? Me…The song?...All The Small Things…and the Artists? A punk rock band from California, USA. That day, the trio of Tom de Longe, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker better known as Blink-182 waltzed into my life and have never left, and eve...