Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ask me why I'm awesome

A company I applied for stated that the "Wow-factor" should be a joke or tell them how "kick-butt you are" (giggles). 

Dear River North Commercial Production & Post Company:


When done right, grammar very wrong
What you are reading is a cover letter notifying you of my intent to bust a hot creamy load of efficiency and enthusiasm all over your office. My skills, and experience not only make me someone who can unlock your company’s 7th chakra, but I’ll have you freakin’ crane-kickin’ the shit out of your future endeavors like my name is Mr. Miyagi. I have vast unnatural powers attained through speaking to the wind, and dining with the noble animal gods. My methods are swift, effective, and like a YouTube video of cats both enjoyable to observe and take part in. Who am I? I’m your new office coordinator, but you may call me- Jake

My incredible mind reading abilities are telling me what you’re thinking: “Oh my GAWD! This person is amazing! I must hire him!” Claw-grab your pony eager beaver! I’m going to need to prepare you for the titillating touch of hot productivity lest be decimated in a whirlwind of success. I have worked in both live and digital production. I have had a multitude of professional roles within a diverse list of genres, and scenarios. I have sold, planned, produced, and managed shows and events for large corporate companies including IBM. I have helped produce music at one of Chicago’s premiere studios with famous pop stars like Jason Derulo, and Jordin Sparks (I've got pics!). I have even shared spotlight with some of Broadway’s current stars. The variety of media that I have engaged in has taught me how to adapt my skills to different scenarios. Like a wolf pack leader I use my past experience and knowledge to rule in a ruthless world were mistakes can be deadly. Though I have raw power in my skill I am as refined as a gentleman. Upon a misty mountain in the southern hills of a mystical land named for goddess Athena resides a school of artisans as well as scientists.That is were I trained my unprocessed talent into a deadly force of awesome!
You doubt my skillz?

For best results hastily connect
with neck of problem.
My Dojo Trained me in both audio, and video production with focus on communication, and business management.  In my wnaderings since leaving the Dojo's nurturing grounds my Kung Fu has only grown more fearsome as I have taught myself many deadly techniques including the use of Photoshop, and browser based technologies. Forever vigilant in observing my surroundings for new information, and techniques my capacity, and speed of learning scares even me. I never answer a request with uncertainty, but instead with the words “I will find out.” Constantly I improve my skills and then use
said skills to punch obstacles in their dumb throats.

Your head must now be ready to explode with the anticipation of working with me, but I am more that just the answer to your prayers. I am also the possessor of the most enjoyable personality on the planet. My attitude brings joy like a heavenly sunbeam.  I infect those around me with this attitude like a coughing baby on a plane. The positivity becomes an epidemic; ground zero: Me!. “But Jake what about under pressure.” I scoff at this question. I have swum with sharks, breathed fire, free climbed waterfalls, played collegiate rugby, and have cut my foot open voluntarily. All while smiling.

If you haven’t yet gone blind from the sheer extent of my awesome described here within then I commend you. You have made it to a crossroads. Do you hire me and enjoy the sweet nectars that my abilities bring, or do you allow the decaying entropy of disorganization rule your office for all eternity? I will attach an accounting of my past deeds and heroics as well as a way to speak with witnesses of the miracle that is me. Godspeed you handsome star child!

Sincerely,
Jake
SCUBA Diver, Black Belt, Westeros Historian, Comedian, International man of mystery and intrigue. 

Monday, July 15, 2013

FREEEDOM!

So we had to change the name again… Someone, not naming names, couldn’t keep a job. So we have a temporary stand in “These are Words” because I’m sure what ever we finally decide to make the title it will probably be formed by words in some sort of discriminate order. The unique situation my life has become has allowed me to do a lot of exploration and discovery. What with all the time, and lack of responsibility one’s life hastily becomes a joke unless justifications can be conjured. The following is a short list of useful things to do when going through a transition.

" I was booooooooorn on a riva!"
1.  Make sure to tell everyone that you feel “truly free” for the first time in your life. Yes, the heavy shackles of a well paying job, have been shattered emancipating you from your conventional prison. Your struggles were hard and you can now raise your clenched fist high in solidarity with other notable long time imprisoned and enslaved Nelson Mandela, those three girls in a Cleveland basement, and Frederick Douglas.

This guy is a god of Hip Hop,
and Pogonotrophy
2. Grow a beard! You now have time for profound thoughts, and your going to need something to run your fingers through looking oh so pensive. Besides razors are a convention of the past not for forward thinkers like you.

3. Your going to be doing a lot of intense, introspective composing over an indefinite amount of time. I cannot stress how important proper sleep and rest will be for this. One should not wake till 10:00 A.M. At least! If one gets up sooner make sure to play candy crush and stretch passively till noon.

4. Try new things. Hiding your tears in the pulsating rains of your shower can become so hum drum. Try crying in public bathrooms, in drive-throughs, or the back of a matinee Tyler Perry Movie.

5. If you have been following this everyone by now knows that you have made this change actively, and out of your own efforts so that you can pursue more important things. Next make sure to work into conversations how wasteful the world is. Water, food, clothes, etc. excess all going to waste. This way they will understand your choice to now shop goodwill, and eat only ramen noodles, and PBJ

6. Become a modern day Robin Hood. Notice the serious imbalance of wealth in your immediate surroundings, and do something about it! Even your family members and friends have become lost to modern greed thanks to our materialistic society. Help show them a better way by removing their temptations and redistributing them to those in need. Remember your doing the righteous thing.

7. You’re abundance of time will allow you to achieve certain tasks that in other situations would be impossible. Doing period studies of current Media is highly encouraged if the right resourced are available (HBO Go, and Netflix).

8.Protest Something! Pick something and run with it. The more obscure the target the better. “The lack of media attention toward Racial profiling of gay penguins’ habitat destruction from fracking is really appalling.”

9. Since you have established your distaste for luxury in favor of a more natural and meaningful lifestyle anything you have, or within your parents household should be sold. The money can be used to set up a charity fund for your self-esteem. It most likely is going through a low point and can use all the illicit substances possible to give it the real kick in the butt to get back up.

10. If you have been following this list you can then fully commit to one of the most pious and transcendent endeavors possible. Join the Urban-Camping movement.


These are just a few of the things one can try during your transition period. Also one can start a blog. You probably have a lot of important things to say to the Internet, and the Internet wants to hear. Lastly remember: you’re only unemployed if you’re trying to find a job.


Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The Neck Tie: A comprehensive history



Here's the skinny: I sold out. Went full Pink on this (if you don't understand that just know that Pink, or P!nk is the greatest sell out of the modern era.) MoFo and 180'd from my previous position of nautical slavery. I now work corporate. It is interesting though there are a lot of silly things corporate people do. So I have decided to stay undercover as an anti-hero, a saboteur, a silent dissenter. Waiting to throw the proverbial wrench in the gear and BURN THIS FUCKER DOWN! Or at least make enough money to move and quit.

I wanted to start my new campaign of subversion by bringing to light one of the most generic things in business the tie, but how many of us truly know how this little filth napkin came into existence?

Is God punishing me for never
 having Friday Classes?
Way way back in ye ole days before Internet (or some other crappy time period) the tie was invented by one incredibly ingenious Manager. You see there has long been the problem of people becoming so depressed from their miserable existence as a knob shining paper jockey that they must kill themselves. Now if this makes you think that the problem this executive saw was the suicide rate of his workers you would be wrong. No, the problem was much simpler than that. In was that in order to depart this world these hopeless individuals had to climb to the top of the roof and jump off, which wasn’t always a guarantee, nor was there roof access on the weekends, which is when workers most want to kill themselves.

Wasted man-hours, the first problem the manager indentified, and tried to solve. He thought “The amount of time it takes for one person to climb the stairs to the roof is ten times as long as the fall down. I could speed up the whole process with some sort of automaton… A mechanical climbing box!”  So he invented the elevator. Unfortunately this attracted delinquent youths whose uninterested parents whom no longer believed in discipline would allow them to push all the buttons on the elevator. This made the climb to the roof take even longer, and was one of the inciting incidents in the Peloponnesian wars.

The executive was even more disheartened and in a fit of shortsightedness sold his automated elevation modifier design for pennies. So he sat and thought until one day while in the park while sitting on his favorite bench as he always did. Feeding pidgeons- no ducks- no laser midgets when suddenly… the oldest laser midget whose eyes had long since gone dark looked into it’s pocket mirror which it kept on it’s comical tuxedo and laser’d itself right in the tiny top heavy face.  The executive was struck by the spear of Pallas Athena, and in the most overly public epiphanic exclamation of the words “HALFIINGS!!”. He thought:  My god instead of making them go to roof I will bring the roof to them.

The actual of the transport of the roof was impossible, as well it would have made the fall shorter causing more broken ankles and less clean employment terminations. So he created a new device He called it the “hand operated personal lead depositing apparatus” The rest of us call it a handgun. Now on the surface this seemed a good idea office provided handguns would work great! No more wasted time, it was quick, and with the installation of the new tarp lined cubicles clean up had never been easier. The H.O.P.L.D.A even came with the capacity to hold six extra supplements in case you decided to be a bitch up to six times. 

The problem came when one worker’s precision with his device became so poor that his preferred method of death became somebody else’s. With the workers seeing that the “personal” part of the handgun only applied to who fired the transfer, but not the recipient they decided it might be easier to turn their attentions to the manager himself. MAN WAS THAT A GREAT CHRISTMAS PARTY!

The manager truly couldn’t get any lower he had been forced to cull his entire staff for improper use of company property. His many attempts at solving his workplace’s largest inefficiency were floundering comical at best, and to top it all off he hadn’t been able to get an erection in a year. This last one really bothered him.  Luckily Both his work, and sexual impotence would be solved simultaneously.

The executive whose confidence in his ability to do his job had gone flaccid did what all men in his position do. Hire a half priced hooker! This one however did not take kindly to his only having Discover. As she might have put it “these titties only take Visa.” With this Tyreke her inappropriately named Caucasian pimp burst in and began to choke the life from our sad manager. With this self-asphyxiation added to the picture he suddenly became rigid both in body and resolve. And realized exactly how to fix his problem.

He sewed the first self-contained murder device we now call a tie. A silk noose discreetly worn at all times that could be made in a plethora of colors, and vomit triggering hotel carpet looking patterns. With silly themes like “dumb shit only a chem teacher finds funny.” The tie truly is a wonder of modern thinking. Now you always had the ability to off your pathetic existence at a moments notice. AND, you could do it with a fashionable flair. The murder fashion industry exploded. They even began adding their own inventions an outfit of wool that one cannot comfortably sit in with a large coat. As it became known the suit as in “this shitty outfit sure SUITS your shitty life,” and “Try to Suite down in a chair comfortably,” “SUITE of bitch thing has to be special cleaned like some sort of sponge-bathed retard.” I digress.

"This one will probably snap your neck
 faster than you can say TPS report!" 
This form of murder also solves the past collateral of a bloody mess to clean up. Now the only thing that happens is you shit yourself right after. Which is appropriate because your job has made you so depressed and miserable the thought of being covered in human feces is actually preferable. Not to mention it makes a great holiday card for the kids. “Merry Christmas from your dead dad! Looks like he got real hung up at work!”   Wacka Shmacka Ding DONG!

Lastly aside form a few garbled noises eerily similar to an aggressively deepthroating from a kid with a peanut allergy going full anaphylactic the whole process is quite silent.  Allowing those who haven’t come to the conclusion that the best possible solution to their day is their own death to continue to work in peace.

Sadly the inventor of the tie died a few months later playing a game of space monkey (GOOGLE IT!). His legacy will forever live on in the miserable dungeons of corporate America. An inspiring tale of how a man can change the way business is done the world over. The slave chain around our necks, and those hooks in the ceiling of every depressing office that have those equally sad indoor ferns hanging from them. Those aren’t really for ferns.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

OHMERGERD WER TERLIN JERKS

first off- FUCK THAT MEAN?!
 Once said by a very perturbed, yet inquisitive Kanyeezy. 
Unrelated: I'm not going to apologize for the long absence in writing. 
1. Im not the apologetic type. 
2. The only shmucks who read this were probably very excited to longer have to listen to me incessantly remind them to read my blog. "it's really good," 
3. "It's not just some whiney quasi-insightful, self-boner licking diary about how much wisdom my recently graduated dumbass can teach you with wordy-wordword-wordwordwords."
4. C'mon SHOES!
5. I work in corporate and can only describe my job for me as being unsuitable, but then I'd also be lying
6. BECAUSE I WORK IN A FUCKING SUIT!
7. GET IT!?
8. August 5th I will be telling stand up jokes.
9. My work sent me an ipad for showing clients buttfucking whatever but the best use I've found for it is playing games while I poop for an hour to avoid our office without air conditioning.
10. accidental racism is real.

SO Yippy yappy yay I'm back. More angry tirades about my retard of a part timer I have to deal with, while not letting make me racist. Yes he is black, but I don't hate him because he is black. I just hate him. Also insights and histories into the ancient and incredibly not secret order of the Cat Lady. and their rivalry with the league of ladies who just recently had babies.  How to's such as how to train your parents. Containing such important lessons like "shitting with the door closed,". 

So get ready, cause this shits about to get heavy.

 and of course we are going to change the name, and we are open to suggestions