thirdlifecrisis

This one covers Steve’s hangover and bottom-hitting, a test run for future–possibly worthwhile–interviews, body hair, acting healthy for 2010, and making fun of our first Facebook fan.

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Every shitty blog does this, why should we be any different?

Here’s what I’m hoping to accomplish in 2010, personally and site-wise

Personal:

• Write more. Not that you could tell from how little the site gets updated, but writing is kinda what I want to do when I grow up. I’ve signed up for a local weekly workshop thing which should force me along, and may provided fodder for the show and site. By the end of 2010, I’d like to have made progress on my zombie novel, and done at least of draft of the romantic comedy idea Scott and I talked about several shows back, Cockpics in November.
• Be less fat. It finally registered as a problem when I noticed how quickly I was going through soap. BMI-wise, I’d like to just be overweight by the end of the year. I’m eating a brownie in a bookstore coffee shop as I write this, though, so I’m expecting limited success on this one.

Site/Show:

• Write more. I’d like there to be more actual content updates than just new show updates on the site this year. The ratio thus far has been way out of whack.
• Branch out. We have a couple of ideas for videos floating around, and there’s no reason we can’t fail at that medium, too. We’ve also set up a Skype number so if we ever get listeners, we can get them involved. You can find us on Skype as poorlyplanned, or call at 708-390-3007.
• Gain a following. Any given show gets listened to in part by around a dozen people. We know of a single regular listener. I’d like to see 100 regular listeners by the end of the year. We’ll measure this by Facebook fans, and Scott Dixler doesn’t count.

We talk about the past year of Poorly Planned and missed opportunities, plans for next year, and about the note to himself that Scott found in a box of old memories. Also quite a bit about pornography.

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Better energy, crappier content. We talk about Scott’s trip to Appalachia, enjoying the failures of others, beating a dead Tiger, and much better segues.

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The eight week hiatus didn’t help–this one’s pretty meh. We talk about Scott’s upcoming religious conversion, non-vegetative Belgians, and have a lackluster discussion about sketch TV shows.

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This one includes a debate over the purpose of a prep sheet, the differences between sports, games, and races–it takes about five minutes for this to get dirty–follow-up on the last show, stage names, and more personal plans.

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Having just finished an Organizational Behavior class, I wanted to make a small contribution to the field before drinking the subject away forever.

The many assholes theory:

In any organization, the number of possible assholes is n-1, where n is the total number of employees, and 1 is you.

The next-largest-asshole theory:

There will always be one co-worker that annoys you more than all others. Should he quit, get fired, or die painfully, though, there will always be another to quickly take his place.

Nice two-month lag time on this one. This is why we need to avoid talking about current events.

This time we cover Steve’s uninteresting trip to California, social anxiety and denial, parody movies, unexpected nudity in film, Steve and Scott’s secret aspirations, pissing on other people’s art, and oh-so-timely There Will Be Blood references.

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So it’s been awhile. Sometime in late August I started realizing I was going to have to work considerably harder to finish up school by the end of the year, and that’s prevented me from even half-assing on this. Shows 11 and 12 are in the can and will be posted in in the next few days. I don’t want to spoil it, but we talk about going somewhere and filming something in 11, and that hasn’t happened yet do to scheduling issues and being pussies. We’re hoping to have that up by December 15th 22nd eventually.

Slow start, but not terrible. Topics include higher education, suits, our high school reunion, ambition and limitations, c-blocking etiquette, being out of shape, worlds colliding, and coy references to marital aids.

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