June 30th, 2002

June 30, 2002 on 9:38 pm | In Good Stories, Things of Amusement to Me

I just lost a post. It was funny, witty, clever, and well-written. Like all my stuff. Here’s a recap.

You can COMMENT on my posts. Use the Comment link under each post. It’s cool, it took a while to set up, and it’s going unnoticed.

I enter a weekly contest called The Style Invitational — it’s in the Washington Post. I had a two honorable mentions in the results published this week. The idea was to come up with goofy questions that would yield one of the silly assorted responses provided… Things like “Fran Drescher and the Norwegian Parliament” and “Those Paper Toilet Seat Covers.” One of my published questions was for “Enron and Cream of Mushroom Soup.” The question I suggested was “What rhymes with Shmenron and Shmeam of Shmushroom Shmoup?”

Honorable mention is good. But first-runner-up is better. I received an email from contest Czar, Post columnist, author, and Dave Barry pal Gene Weingarten:

lex, i have some interesting news for you. i have never delivered news to
anyone quite like this.

your “shmeam of shmushroom shmoup” entry this week, which earned an
honorable, originally was the first runner up. i loved it. and then, purely by coincidence, dave barry led his column last week with THE IDENTICAL JOKE.” i could no longer leave it as first runner up, because
it would have looked derivative. even though, technically, you were first.

so we’re sending you the pen anyway. i will also mention this in my chat
on tuesday.

Story moral: I am great.

Update: December 2002 — I never got the damn pen!

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    June 29th, 2002

    June 29, 2002 on 1:55 am | In Life Updates, Work

    Weird job interviews today: 1
    Words per minute weird interviewer’s test determined I can type: 95
    Percentile user-type I rank for Word, Excell, and PowerPoint: 90
    Odd managers I met with today: 1
    Number of parts I expect him to get me: 394084598023984209384234

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    June 27th, 2002

    June 27, 2002 on 6:16 pm | In Food, The Lex Files

    Now I changed the look. Note: Vanilla Coke still sucks.

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    June 27th, 2002

    June 27, 2002 on 6:11 pm | In Family, Food, The Lex Files

    Vanilla Coke: Why?

    My brother-in-law, whom I’ll call “Guy” to reveal his true identity, and I tried the beverage. It tastes like bat urine, only less yummy and with more of a kick.

    I want to change the look of this blog, but not the feel.

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    June 24th, 2002

    June 24, 2002 on 5:44 pm | In Lauren, Uncategorized, Work

    Lauren had a job interview today. The job interview essentially consisted of, “Hey, would you like to pay us forty bucks to have us pretend to find you work?”

    She said no. She’s smart.

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    June 23rd, 2002

    June 23, 2002 on 5:06 pm | In The Lex Files

    My Blog’s weekly viewership tanked because of a month of silence. Damn you, fickle readers. New content is overrated. Old content is pleasantly reliable, like an old worn La-Z-Boy chair. Sure, you THINK you want a new leather couch, but brother, that takes a long time to break in.

    PS: Damn you, fickle (something) really looks and sound like a mean curse, if you squint and/or say it right.

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    June 22nd, 2002

    June 22, 2002 on 3:58 pm | In Life Updates, Work

    Check out Lex’s resume.

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    June 21st, 2002

    June 21, 2002 on 10:05 pm | In Lauren, Work

    So, Lex moved to LA. Along with Lauren. You should hire him. He writes well, don’t he?

    You can comment on entries to the Blog now. Cool, huh?

    I’ve sent in a lot of applications. If you got one, then stop reading my damn blog and email me, jerk. If you’re a prospective employer, I’m really sweet and a peach to work with.

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