Petty Annoyances

An excessive number of fictional protagonists in film, books and television are named Jack. Way more than there should be. But so what?, one...

We're all aware, surely, how commercialism keeps creeping deeper and deeper into baseball. We've all seen the slow roasting spit of ...

"When analyzing a marketing opportunity," said the professor on the first day of my new marketing class, "you want to stay go...

This post has nothing to do with potpourri. I love potpourri. Put out a bowl of it next to a bowl of Terra brand chips to delight and confus...

Do you know how often I get shaken down for cash by all the schools I've ever gone to? College, high school, even grade school . I get l...

Let's venture out on some thin ice. I've been annoyed for years at the way race is handled in commercials. I've never said an...

81. A 5 way intersection 82. Ghostwritten autobiographies 83. When someone you're sharing food with covers the entire portion with...

On December 25th, I made an interesting observation. It was about Christmas music. You know by now I'm sure how much I hate the annual a...

Time Magazine's Person-of-the-year award just annoys the hell out of me. And for so many, many reasons. It's POTY season just about ...

A word now on magic acts. Anyone else out there like a good magic show? No? Well too bad. That's our topic for today. I like a good m...

I felt good ranting about how asinine it was to put the wrong date on the cover of your magazine. Like calling the April newsstand issue ...

This is especially petty, but can a man get a pint of ice cream that doesn't have chunks of crap floating around in it? Not actual cr...

Have you ever been sitting around, Sunday afternoon, nothing to do? Maybe there's a light drizzle, maybe you've been working on a cr...

I hate modern art. And you want to know why? It's because of what modern art has done to me. Here I am, just minding my own business,...

Something else I've had it with these days are the cheap, sub-Mexican almost-toys that pass for "Prizes" at your local arcade....