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- Doses of Reality – Part 1
- #02 – Why I Don’t Call Tech Support
- #07 – Infomercials
- #08 – The Death of the Star Wars Franchise
- #16 – The Cynical Generation
- #33 – Ruling by Policy
- #39 – Business Communication for Beginners
- #41 – Hospitals and Other Scary Places
- #45 – Rock n Roll Pt.2
- #46 – Strata
- #50 – Thirteen Months
- #51 -The Blue-Eyed Devils
- #52 – Beating out the competition
- #54 – The Healer
- #55 – Idiotspeak
- Doses of Reality – Part 2
- #64 – Being an Adult – 101
- #65 – Lesson 2: Living on Your Own (Collecting tin cans for fun and profit!)
- #66 – Working Life: They Call it “The Grind” For a Reason
- #67 – Being a Successful Person
- #70 – Overcoming the Writer’s Block
- #71 – Subtlety
- #72 – Things I’m Too Old For
- #73 – I Hate You, Nick Burns
- #74 – Shut Up About SpongeBob
- #75 – To the Class of 1995
- #76 – The Lottery
- #77 – You Do Not Represent Us
- Doses of Reality – Part 3
- #78 – Being a Guy – Part 1
- #79 – Being a Guy – Part 2
- #80 – Invasion
- #81 – Clutter
- #84 – The Family Miranda Rights
- #85 – The Agenda Lounge
- #86 – Bulimia
- #87 Why We Love Them
- #88 – The Mercy Killing
- #90 – Detroit Rock City
- #91 – Endstop Sweep::Init Part 2
- #92 – The Big Fat Who Cares
- #93 – The Hero Rides Away
- #94 – The Laugh of the Damned
- #95 – Die, Tim Allen, Die!
- #96 -Being a Guy – Part 3 (The Last One)
- #97 – Not a Geek
- The Darkside
- 01 Rolling Stone Memories
- 17 – Somewhere on the Circle or the Bakerloo
- 2/17/04 – Water Pipes and Tight Spaces (Or, What You Do for Family)
- One Year
- Road Trip: January, 2004
- Roadtrip, April 2004 – Florida
- Roseanne, High School and Me
- 05 – The Writing Workout or, Daily Weirdness
- 08 – Battle of the Rags
- 09 – Road Trip – September, 2004
- Doses of Reality – Part 1
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Doses of Reality – Part 1
The Dose of Reality articles were the bulk of the website – in 4 years I’d written almost 100 of them on a lot of different topics but one very common theme: Daily life needs a dose of reality. Modern life suffers from an insular layer of illusion; sometimes we need a Dose of something to bring us back. In four years, I’ve written 97 Doses of Reality. Some were better than others. For your consideration, here are 43 that I thought were the best of what I’ve written.
Dose of Reality #2 – Why I Don’t Call Tech Support
Dose of Reality #7 – Infomercials
Dose of Reality #8 – The Death of Star Wars
Dose of Reality #16 – The Cynical Generation
Dose of Reality #33 – Ruling By Policy
Dose of Reality #39 – Business Communication for Beginners
Dose of Reality #41 – Hospitals and Other Scary Places
Dose of Reality #45 – Rock n’ Roll, Part 2
Dose of Reality #50 – Thirteen Months
Dose of Reality #51 – Blue-Eyed Devils
Dose of Reality #52 – Beating Out the Competition
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