September creeps in on the heels of August’s humidity cloaked as a relief worker. But it’s a lie.
August 2010 Met John Doe for lunch. He’s a lawyer who had an epiphany. A passionate guy. Can’t sit still. He had a small brochure folded into eighths. There were graphs and subsequent copy on each panel positioned perfectly so that it opened and closed just right. I was immediately impressed. He talked politics and government and actually made sense. He explained his epiphany and that he felt he’d been called to initiate some kind of epic change in America…
Because of noise, I decided to unfollow people on Twitter. But it was bad karma. So I created @jmitchem instead, and am using that account to start again. It’s pretty stupid.
Too many people I’ve followed since ‘08 are deadwood – taking up valuable space in my brain via my eyes without offering me any value whatsoever. It’s time to prune the deadwood.
This is the story of a little girl who always wanted earrings. And the meanest father in the world.
Death of a Guinea Pig.
