I'd thought I would use this medium and it's reading audience to plug my newest project, a collaboration with three other writers entitled, "One Story Project."
I encourage everyone to check it out. The basic premise of the project is to get four writers to contribute to the same story with updates every Monday and Friday. No one has single control over the story, instead each post written by each of the authors has the ability to shape the story.
By limiting the post of the authors and following nothing more than a wire frame of a story we're able to organically craft a tale of the ages. Give it a check out, bookmark it, dig it, and every other social network tool you can think of.
Thanks again for the eyeballs,
Jason
Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
R.I.P Beard
Two weeks into it and the Great Beard Project of '09 has ended.
R.I.P. my itchy friend.... you will be missed.
R.I.P. my itchy friend.... you will be missed.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
New Time Slot & Beard
Avid radio listeners, lend me your tuners! We be movin' yo! That's right the Not-So-Better-Half-Show is moving to primetime on Sunday afternoons from 4pm-7pm starting on January 18th, and we couldn't be more excited. We'd like to say thank you for everyone who tunes in on Sunday nights that help make the show a success. We love you all. If it wasn't from your support I doubt a move like this would be possible and it's greatly appreciated.
What can you expect with our new time slot? Well besides an additional hour of laugh out loud hilarity, this move will give us the chance to set up some repeat segments that have been boiling over in our creative minds. I'm excited! Who knows what you might be able to hear, maybe Andy will review comicbooks, or Jared will review teaching strategies, or I'll make inappropriate comments on the woman of top chef (Padma Lakshmi = smoking) who knows! Although more than likely since it is a three person show we will each pick a regular segment to be featured during the show that expresses who we are. Whatever it is, it'll be awesome.
In additional ground breaking news I have taken it upon myself to grow a beard. Why? Because I can! So far it's be going pretty good, although the itching and patchiness issues need to be resolved. If anyone has any tips on beard cultivation please share them with me.
I was equally excited to see a beard on my hero! As many people know "Scrubs" is handsdown my favourite show on television. That being said you should have seen the excited happy dance I had Tuesday night when I noticed J.D. had the same amount of facial hair that I do, further proof that we should be best friends.
Looking forward to having you guys tune in on the 18th and helping out on the move. It's only a couple large pieces of furniture and I'll have some beer and pizza for everyone afterwards.
Beardily yours,
Jason
What can you expect with our new time slot? Well besides an additional hour of laugh out loud hilarity, this move will give us the chance to set up some repeat segments that have been boiling over in our creative minds. I'm excited! Who knows what you might be able to hear, maybe Andy will review comicbooks, or Jared will review teaching strategies, or I'll make inappropriate comments on the woman of top chef (Padma Lakshmi = smoking) who knows! Although more than likely since it is a three person show we will each pick a regular segment to be featured during the show that expresses who we are. Whatever it is, it'll be awesome.
In additional ground breaking news I have taken it upon myself to grow a beard. Why? Because I can! So far it's be going pretty good, although the itching and patchiness issues need to be resolved. If anyone has any tips on beard cultivation please share them with me.
I was equally excited to see a beard on my hero! As many people know "Scrubs" is handsdown my favourite show on television. That being said you should have seen the excited happy dance I had Tuesday night when I noticed J.D. had the same amount of facial hair that I do, further proof that we should be best friends.
Looking forward to having you guys tune in on the 18th and helping out on the move. It's only a couple large pieces of furniture and I'll have some beer and pizza for everyone afterwards.
Beardily yours,
Jason
Friday, December 5, 2008
Jason has a busy month
To those of you that check this blog regularly to see what's been going on in the lives of the men behind the voices behind the microphones behind your radio (behind the engine) this post is for you! More importantly this post is a pitifully shallow explanation of why this blog hasn't been updated in a while.
November has been wicked busy. Now don't get me wrong I like my months busy, nothing excites me more then having a plateful of things to do. However, November's plateful looked more like a buffet then anything else. I'll give you guys the Cliffnotes version and touch on a few highlights
Work - Now most of you know that my workload can vary throughout the week and that somedays are less full than others. This works well for me since I can use that time to do things like: catch up on episodes of TV shows I've missed or weren't born in time for (Oh that Gilligan!), read forums and blogs I enjoy visiting, play cell phone videogames and write in this blog. November was not like this. November was a time dump of work and meetings on top of traveling.
I got to see the gloriously beautiful states of West Virginia and Montana. Truly both God's country. That is if God was a undereducated bigot with a few missing teeth and a pension for moonshine made from whatever small furry animal could be scraped off the grill of a passing truck.
I was able to refine my PowerPoint skills to the point where one of my clients paid me this compliment, "You're pretty good a that Power Presentation computer stuff. Must be from all that fancy learning." Fancy learning indeed good sir. A lot of late hours and worked weekends later I'm able to say I think I have a job for 2009.
Car- For those of you who didn't hear on the radio... my car caught on fire. Not a tiny fire mind you, but more like the set of Backdraft. At one point my fuel pump caught fire which sent a ball of fire high into the air KNOCKING BACK THE HOOD OF MY CAR. Now trust me there is no one reading this that's a bigger fan of random car fires then this guy right here, but when it's your car, the funniest dies a little (as does a part of you).
How did this happen you might ask?
I was driving back from seeing Madagascar 2 when I stopped at a stop sign. While there my car decides to cut off all of it's lights and the radio. All electrical things just stopped. I was nervous. Once I had made the required stop I went back on my way and the lights and radio came back on. I was relieved. Two miles later I thought I smelled something burning. I was nervous. Three miles later the smell dissipated a bit. I was relieved. I got home, turned the key, removed said key from the ignition and notice two things: One the engine didn't turn off & two there was now a little smoke coming out of the top of the engine. I was worried.
I got out of the car, and looked under the hood where I saw orange light and shadows dancing on the ground. I then went to pop the hood where I was greeted with the sight of flames coming out of the front of the car. I was scared. I called 911 while at the same time went into the house to tell everyone to clear their cars out of the driveway. By the time I got back outside to the car the flames had engulfed the entire hood of the car and had caught the ground underneath on fire. Long story short the fire department came, put out the fire, and I was able to salvage most of my stuff. A quick call to my insurance company informed me I wasn't covered for this. Who knew $20 a month policies didn't cover electrical fires?!
Thanksgiving - I took the whole week of Thanksgiving off to get a new (to me) car in Hickory. Most people might ask why I would leave Charlotte to look for a used car in Hickory. Well my friend Hickory is known for many things (furniture, cable, taverns) but one thing it excels at is used car lots. On a particular 10 mile stretch of road there are no less than 30 used car lots. you can literally throw stones up and down the road from one car lot to another. I ended up getting a 2000 Ford Escort Coupe for around $2800 + tax and title. Not bad considering that Kelly Blue Book has this to say about it.
There you guys are caught up, now please stop with hate mail. Even single guys have feelings. Although our feelings can easily be buried deep inside or changed with two shots of tequila whichever comes first.
Jason
November has been wicked busy. Now don't get me wrong I like my months busy, nothing excites me more then having a plateful of things to do. However, November's plateful looked more like a buffet then anything else. I'll give you guys the Cliffnotes version and touch on a few highlights
Work - Now most of you know that my workload can vary throughout the week and that somedays are less full than others. This works well for me since I can use that time to do things like: catch up on episodes of TV shows I've missed or weren't born in time for (Oh that Gilligan!), read forums and blogs I enjoy visiting, play cell phone videogames and write in this blog. November was not like this. November was a time dump of work and meetings on top of traveling.
I got to see the gloriously beautiful states of West Virginia and Montana. Truly both God's country. That is if God was a undereducated bigot with a few missing teeth and a pension for moonshine made from whatever small furry animal could be scraped off the grill of a passing truck.
I was able to refine my PowerPoint skills to the point where one of my clients paid me this compliment, "You're pretty good a that Power Presentation computer stuff. Must be from all that fancy learning." Fancy learning indeed good sir. A lot of late hours and worked weekends later I'm able to say I think I have a job for 2009.
Car- For those of you who didn't hear on the radio... my car caught on fire. Not a tiny fire mind you, but more like the set of Backdraft. At one point my fuel pump caught fire which sent a ball of fire high into the air KNOCKING BACK THE HOOD OF MY CAR. Now trust me there is no one reading this that's a bigger fan of random car fires then this guy right here, but when it's your car, the funniest dies a little (as does a part of you).
How did this happen you might ask?
I was driving back from seeing Madagascar 2 when I stopped at a stop sign. While there my car decides to cut off all of it's lights and the radio. All electrical things just stopped. I was nervous. Once I had made the required stop I went back on my way and the lights and radio came back on. I was relieved. Two miles later I thought I smelled something burning. I was nervous. Three miles later the smell dissipated a bit. I was relieved. I got home, turned the key, removed said key from the ignition and notice two things: One the engine didn't turn off & two there was now a little smoke coming out of the top of the engine. I was worried.
I got out of the car, and looked under the hood where I saw orange light and shadows dancing on the ground. I then went to pop the hood where I was greeted with the sight of flames coming out of the front of the car. I was scared. I called 911 while at the same time went into the house to tell everyone to clear their cars out of the driveway. By the time I got back outside to the car the flames had engulfed the entire hood of the car and had caught the ground underneath on fire. Long story short the fire department came, put out the fire, and I was able to salvage most of my stuff. A quick call to my insurance company informed me I wasn't covered for this. Who knew $20 a month policies didn't cover electrical fires?!
Thanksgiving - I took the whole week of Thanksgiving off to get a new (to me) car in Hickory. Most people might ask why I would leave Charlotte to look for a used car in Hickory. Well my friend Hickory is known for many things (furniture, cable, taverns) but one thing it excels at is used car lots. On a particular 10 mile stretch of road there are no less than 30 used car lots. you can literally throw stones up and down the road from one car lot to another. I ended up getting a 2000 Ford Escort Coupe for around $2800 + tax and title. Not bad considering that Kelly Blue Book has this to say about it.
There you guys are caught up, now please stop with hate mail. Even single guys have feelings. Although our feelings can easily be buried deep inside or changed with two shots of tequila whichever comes first.
Jason
Friday, November 14, 2008
This is short and sweet....
I wanted you all to have a chance to see the craziness that was my wife's last Friday. I don't have a picture of her eye but believe me that I have gotten some evil looks for potential spousal abuse for those who don't know about her incident at work with her special needs student. I am most definitely not a proponent for spouse abuse but I am even more a proponent for people not throwing around evil looks if the whole story is not known.
Otherwise for those of you who listened to the show you know that somebody decided to redecorate my wife's car with a masonry brick and I do want to say that Nationwide was on our side and took amazing care of us. I will be sticking around with them for a bit. Here are some picks of the car from last Friday and as you can see the brick went for a sweet ride.
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