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.’
