Song Title Wednesday
July 7, 2010
Song titles:
Why Yes, I Do Think I’m Better Than You
The Waitress-Goosing Machine
The Chips Are Stacked Against Me
It Ain’t So Bad
Rejoice, If You Must
Album titles:
Mannequin Depressive
Love in the Time of Condoms
Album titles with ‘Hunts Whales’ in them:
The Impregnable Fortress Of Hunts Whales
His career will not roll out with the easy inevitability that his father and grandfather recall
July 7, 2010
‘So far, Scott Nicholson is a stranger to the triumphal stories that his father and grandfather tell of their working lives. They said it was connections more than perseverance that got them started — the father in 1976 when a friend who had just opened a factory hired him, and the grandfather in 1946 through an Army buddy whose father-in-law owned a brokerage firm in nearby Worcester and needed another stock broker.
‘From these accidental starts, careers unfolded and lasted. David Nicholson, now the general manager of a company that makes tools, is still in manufacturing. William Nicholson spent the next 48 years, until his retirement, as a stock broker. “Scott has got to find somebody who knows someone,” the grandfather said, “someone who can get him to the head of the line.”
‘Many hard-pressed millennials are falling back on their parents, as Scott Nicholson has. While he has no college debt (his grandparents paid all his tuition and board) many others do, and that helps force them back home.’
Song Title Wednesday
June 30, 2010
Song titles:
You Have The Right To Remain Terrible
The Frantic Skeleton Dance
I Know From Savages
Grow To The Size Of Your Bowl
Don’t Make Me Say What I Want
Album titles:
All I See Is The Flaws
Yikes That Smarts!
Wincers Never Quit
Basic Cable TV Series Titles:
The Adventures of Young Cap’n Crunch
According to Eckhart Tolle
Song Title Wednesday
June 23, 2010
Song titles:
Don’t Miss Me Too Much
Farmers’ Daughters Are Overrated
Taking Out The Trash
I Will Always Love You, I Lied
My Scorn Is Meta
Girls Need Blinders
Goodbye, Not Cruel Enough World!
Album titles:
The Man Who Got Everything He Wanted
The Diet Starts Tomorrow!^^**
Band names:
Bogun Patrol
*This album title is so good that I can’t guarantee that I won’t use it later, so take it at your own risk, putative readers!
Despite attributions to Andrew Bailey of the R.A. Bailey Company, no such person existed
June 22, 2010
The choice of the name Bailey was based on branding.
Song Title Wednesday
June 15, 2010
It’s Song Title Wednesday #7, trick.
Song titles:
Nothing’s Ever Good Enough For You People
Leave While They’re Still Asking You To Stay
Blood and Calculations
Tyler Perry’s Dog Barks To Keep From Crying
The Heart Wants What It Wants And Beats When It’s Told
Don’t Besame Mucho
Album titles:
Dual Citizenship
Willful Ignorance Is The Only Ignorance For Me
Band names:
Disconnection Junction
The Almost Stifled Orgasms
Album Titles with ‘Hunts Whales’ in them’:
Hunts Whales, She Wrote
Young, Dumb and Hunts Whales
Song Title Wednesday
June 9, 2010
Song Titles:
Turning a Blind Eye
In Like A Lion, Off With His Head
Laugh It Up, Chuckles
Album Titles:
Rang Rang Super Krang
The Way of All Flesh
Die Harder And Harder And Harder Forever
Band Names:
Hard R
The Barely Stifled Orgasms
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Album Title with the Phrase Hunts Whales in it:
HUNTS WHALES! That’s What I Call Music
Video Game Titles:
Holdover from Jing Jang Island
People make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it
June 5, 2010
- Tend to overestimate their own level of skill
- Fail to recognize genuine skill in others
- Fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy
- If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, they can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.
Self-control is an exhaustible resource
June 3, 2010
“Self-control is an exhaustible resource. And I don’t mean self-control only in the sense of turning down cookies or alcohol, I mean a broader sense of self-supervision—any time you’re paying close attention to your actions, like when you’re having a tough conversation or trying to stay focused on a paper you’re writing. This helps to explain why, after a long hard day at the office, we’re more likely to snap at our spouses or have one drink too many—we’ve depleted our self-control.
“What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. Change wears people out—even well-intentioned people will simply run out of fuel.”
