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February 7th, 2012 by Dave
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.
“Trading in memories for fortune and fame; Just a step away from the edge of a fall” – Poison, Fallen Angel
“I am not a role model” – Charles Barkley
We’re very careful about how we describe ourselves, how we allow ourselves to be portrayed, and most importantly…how we view ourselves.
We run a group that’s helped over three hundred people find jobs…but we’re not “an organization dedicated to helping people find jobs”.
We’ve done a few events that have a charitable flavor to them…but we don’t hit you up every fifteen minutes looking for donations to the cause of the day.
We don’t put ourselves out there as saving the world, or being such great, magnanimous people that you should just bask in the glory of our goodness.
Not only because we don’t think of ourselves that way, but also because none of us wants to become The Fallen Angel…
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January 30th, 2012 by Dave
We’ve always said that we’re not “social media experts”.
We’re not. We try things, we experiment, and we have some moderate amount of success with certain things…but we’re not experts.
And there’s always been something that bothered me about that term – “social media expert” – but I could never really nail down what it was or why it nagged at me so much.
Now I can.
So now I can finally express why we’re not social media experts.
And I can also tell you why you’re not one, either…
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November 10th, 2011 by Dave
“I don’t know WHAT that was…but it wasn’t a Detroitnet.org event” – Recruiter, during an email exchange about the event in Flint
I wasn’t going to write this.
We chatted briefly, and decided that the event in Flint was best handled like a blind date gone horribly awry – take the lessons learned (there are plenty) from it that you can, delete the appropriate number out of your cell phones, and move on.
Then I realized that in doing so, we were becoming everything we hate. Since when are we concerned about whether or not people “like” us? At what point did politics start taking precedence over honesty and integrity? When the hell did it start to matter whether or not we burned a bridge that we’re never going to want to cross again anyway?
So here I stand, nozzle connected to a now empty gasoline tanker in one hand and a Zippo lighter in the other, giving you a recap of the debacle in Flint…
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October 28th, 2011 by Bob
“Lighten up Francis…” – Sgt. Hulka
**Note: There will be words in here that might offend you. If anything I write here “hits home”, it’s probably because it is you. If you get easily offended, I suggest going to this site right now, because if you come to me crying about something in here, I’m going to publicly mock you about it. Those are the rules.
Still here?
Okay, then let’s go.
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July 20th, 2011 by Dave
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.
“I would like to apologize for my remarks…” – Something you will never hear us say. Ever.
Bob and I have a dream. No, it’s not the one where you’re standing on top of a pyramid in Sun God robes and there are thousands of naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you. Our dream is to mock political correctness into submission. For instance, we’d like to issue a press release calling for a boycott of Cracker Barrel until they change their name…because as middle aged white guys, we’re offended by the word “cracker”.
Note: We are not actually offended by it in the least.
We just truly believe that the ensuing situation would be hilarious. Would Cracker Barrel executives even acknowledge it? Would they respond? Would we get interviewed by CNN to discuss our (fake) mental anguish, pain and suffering caused by driving by those establishments as we ramble around the country and see the signs? Could we…could we really…pull off something as insane as actually making a corporation change it’s name?!? Well, you don’t see “Beaner’s Coffee” signs any more, do ya?
This is going somewhere, I promise. Stay with me for a few…
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June 15th, 2011 by Dave
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln (and many others)
“I have the conch!” – Lord of the Flies
During his “Himself” performance, Bill Cosby says that cocaine doesn’t change your personality…it simply intensifies it. So if you’re a great guy in a good mood before you take it, odds are good you’ll be a really great guy in a really great mood afterwards. But if you’re a huge jerk before you take it…you’re going to be a really huge jerk once it’s in your system.
Well, I’m here to tell you – someone needs to start testing microphones for cocaine residue…
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May 3rd, 2011 by Dave
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.
A little bit earlier, we mentioned that there were people that were begging to be called out as “That Guy”.
It’s time to get started.
And this one’s going to be extremely easy to write…because it almost writes itself, it’s so over the top.
It starts…with an email…
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March 8th, 2011 by Dave
You know how you hear/see those commercials for whatever wonder pill of the week some pharmaceutical company wants you to take to help you sleep, help you stay awake, lose weight, or whatever else they’re targeting…and then the side effects they rattle off sound worse than the symptoms that you’re currently experiencing? Personally, I think I’d rather deal with a little sleeplessness than worry about migraines, memory loss, uncontrollable urges, and of course my latest favorite – “women that are pregnant or may become pregnant should not handle this drug”. Really?
There’s something in it *so* toxic and screwed up that any woman who comes near it risks pregnancy complications…and yet this is something that’s perfectly safe for a guy to ingest? Really?!
Anyway, the moral of the story here is that LinkedIn has “cured” the problem with the Jobs tab. However, the way they did it…well, in my opinion anyway…is worse than the original problem…
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February 20th, 2011 by Dave
“Snookered – verb – Slang . to deceive, cheat, or dupe”
I knew things were going sideways before I even got there. I had to deal with some issues at work (yes, I have a “real” job…all three of us do…this is all still done in what we laughingly call our “free time”…) and so I didn’t get out as early as I wanted to, which had me running late getting out to Snookers for our Pink Slip Party this past Thursday. I hate running late, and so I was already in less than a perfect mindset when the text message came in from Bob at 3:58pm:
“Wow. You are going to be pissed.”
Well that’s never a good sign. Needless to say, I immediately called him and found out that they had us pigeon-holed in a back area that wouldn’t support one of our casual events, let alone a Pink Slip Party, and that they had completely overbooked the venue with other events going on.
I sped up a little bit.
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January 29th, 2011 by Dave
“Maybe there are forces in this universe we don’t understand. But I still believe we make our own miracles.” - Huey Freeman, The Boondocks
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” - Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blanke
“This is why we can’t have nice things!” - every mother since the dawn of time
It is 2011.
44 years ago, riots broke out in downtown Detroit, and some say the city has never recovered.
They say that the road named 8 Mile, made famous by Eminem in his movie of the same name, is the Berlin Wall, or the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. There might as well be barbed wire, guard dogs and machine guns lining the streets instead of sidewalks, or a swath of mines waiting for the slightest touch to go off…because it is a line that must not be crossed. Each side must keep to it’s own, and never the two should mingle.
To them…one and all…I say: Seriously?!?!
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