I had a feeling I would like this show.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Everything Should Taste Like Bacon
An idea I can totally support.
Bacon Salt is a zero-calorie, vegetarian, kosher certified seasoning salt that makes everything taste like real bacon.
Buy it at J & D’s online.
Radical Honesty
This story is about something called Radical Honesty. It may change your life. (But honestly, we don’t really care.)
By A.J. Jacobs
Here’s the truth about why I’m writing this article:
I want to fulfill my contract with my boss. I want to avoid getting fired. I want all the attractive women I knew in high school and college to read it. I want them to be amazed and impressed and feel a vague regret over their decision not to have sex with me, and maybe if I get divorced or become a widower, I can have sex with them someday at a reunion. I want Hollywood to buy my article and turn it into a movie, even though they kind of already made the movie ten years ago with Jim Carrey. I want to get congratulatory e-mails and job offers that I can politely decline. Or accept if they’re really good. Then get a generous counteroffer from my boss.
To be totally honest, I was sorry I mentioned this idea to my boss about three seconds after I opened my mouth. Because I knew the article would be a pain in the ass to pull off. Dammit. I should have let my colleague Tom Chiarella write it. But I didn’t want to seem lazy.
What I mentioned to my boss was this: a movement called Radical Honesty.
The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without fibs — but Blanton goes further. He says we should toss out the filters between our brains and our mouths. If you think it, say it. Confess to your boss your secret plans to start your own company. If you’re having fantasies about your wife’s sister, Blanton says to tell your wife and tell her sister. It’s the only path to authentic relationships. It’s the only way to smash through modernity’s soul-deadening alienation. Oversharing? No such thing.
{read the rest of the article}
Designer Mice
I mean, I guess…. if you had 50 extra bucks and for the life of you, you couldn’t figure out what you wanted and it was just sitting there, waiting to be spent…yeah, then ok. See the rest of them at Mousenvy.
(thanks Tara!)
