The Great White Dope

Posted by MRJ on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

A year ago, today, I posted the last update on this site about my weight loss goals.  I made another writing post and a movie review post after that, but this website otherwise sat empty, forgotten. If the internet could decay, and rust, and rot, like old cars in a junkyard, the site would be [...]

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Daily writing – 02/25/09

Posted by MRJ on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Today’s prompt:  By the sea, beneath the yellow and sagging moon. After 9/11, Jake and I felt lost in our youth.  We were at college but didn’t really have any interest in academics.  We spent most of our time getting wasted, getting pussy, or trying to do both.  We were sitting in the English building on [...]

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Music Supervision Project

Posted by MRJ on Thursday, February 5th, 2009

In the second year of my masters program I took a class that was all about being a music supervisor for film & television. We learned what a music supervisor does, who they work with, how they go about getting rights & licenses to use music, etc. It was a pretty interesting class. The teacher [...]

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The hydration realization

300 to 300

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 - 300 to 300

My first semester at college I arrived in pretty bad shape.  I was a big kid, and already at the age of 18 I had been through several yo-yo periods of weight loss and gain.  I wrestled for 3 years in high school and each wrestling season I lost a ton of weight and got into [...]

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You can’t drink the Kool-Aid and then wonder why you are dead inside.

Play by Play

Friday, July 9th, 2010 - Play-by-Play

LeBron James made his now infamous “decision” tonight on live, prime-time television and, save for Miami, the entire world seems to have one reaction: disgust.  A lot of people are throwing their disgust on James, on his “loyalty” to his hometown Cleveland, on the way he acted in the past few weeks, on the way [...]

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Daily writing – 07/08/2010

Book of Days

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 - Book of Days

Today’s prompt:  “Write about a gate” I must have drove up and down the block thirteen times before I realized that the address I was looking for simply didn’t exist.  504… 506…510.  No 508.  Again.  U-Turn, and once more.  510… 506.  It also took me awhile to realize that even though I could not find [...]

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Daily writing – 07/07/2010

Book of Days

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 - Book of Days

Today’s prompt:  “It was his idea of a good time.” We all, at some point, had to examine our lives in the context of knowing Harrison.  It didn’t matter what crowd you ran with, who your best friends were, or what you did with your time.  We all knew Harrison.  He had a gravity about [...]

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Three questions for America

Resident of the USA

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 - Resident of the United States of America

I’m no political expert, nor am I always that patriotic.  I do love living in a country where you can pretty much pursue whatever interests you, and when I see documentaries on nations that live in poverty or war I do feel lucky to have been born here and given all the chances I have had [...]

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