Category : Nicholas Johnson
Dear Nix:
I know I’m in the completely wrong career field. I do okay with it, get recognized and rewarded. However, it gets harder and harder every day to work here…my productivity, which has never been great, has slowly deteriorated. I know I was born to do other things. I’m afraid my downward trend at work may be an unconscious attempt at self-sabotage. I could take a stab at other career fields that interest me, but I get compensated well and I have a lot of financial obligations (some credit, mostly student loans). Plus, who doesn’t like to make some decent scratch? It would be very difficult for me to jump ship to a career field where I’d probably have to take a 50% or greater pay cut. What should I do?
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Dear Nix,
My husband told me he only liked basketball (the Mavericks) when we started
dating. Then the Cowboys started winning again, and suddenly he’s a football
fan too. I did NOT sign up to be in a sports family. I have zero interest in
sports. But football? I don’t even approve of it as a sport! A bunch of
grown men behaving like animals and crushing their poor little brains into
one another carelessly risking all sorts of brain damage. Who thinks this is
a good idea?!?!
Anyway, my husband is suddenly a diehard Cowboys fan, and he has to watch
every single game. We already don’t spend enough time together because of
his commute and our kids and everything else that life throws at us. How am
I supposed to be okay with him wasting at least 3 hours a week on brain
smashing while I’m taking care of the kids or just missing that chance to
spend time with him?
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After a deep conversation with Daniel D, we came to the conclusion that the Feast is in dire need for an answers and advice column. Considering that I have been known to offer up all sorts of advice, regardless of whether I was asked for it or not, it just makes sense that I’d be the one to field YOUR questions. So this is your opportunity to ask me anything. I will answer it, no matter how odd or uncomfortable it might be.
I promise that I’ll take all of your questions seriously and your anonymity will be maintained at all times.
Have you ever wondered why guys scratch themselves so often? I’ll answer that. Why does your boyfriend ask you to do that thing he likes? I’ll answer that. Why didn’t he call you? I’ll answer that.
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It’s football season, again. I love the smell of pigskin in the morning. Saturday morning’s are not just for sleeping in anymore. Sure, my Saturdays will probably consist of waking up around 10am, watching College Gameday on ESPN, and then spending a good 6-9 hours of my day flipping between the slew of games available. This is a common practice for the first few weeks of the college football season. After awhile, the initial sugar shock will wear off and my viewing habits will taper down.
I have the benefit of having grown up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. When I was young, the Southwestern Conference was in its twilight. It is safe to say that in 1986 when Southern Methodist University received the “Death Penalty” from the NCAA, the SWC was effectively done for. The Death Penalty did more than penalize SMU’s athletic programs and dig the SWC’s grave, it destroyed all the buzz about college football in DFW.
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Anybody that knows me knows that there are only a handful of shows that I love as much as I love Saturday Night Live. There is no end to the amount of praise that I could bestow on this marvelous show, but I have decided to take another route. For anybody born in the 70’s and beyond, SNL has been there. Hate it or love it, SNL has been there providing commentary on the events of our lives. For some of us, Saturday Night Live has offered up some impromptu life lessons.
1. Humor Lives on Long After the Comedian Dies
Many SNL alum have died well before their time. Call it a curse. Call it fate. Call it what you want. Either way, Jim Belushi, Gilda Radner, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley all died way too young. We all benefit from being able to go back and watch them on VCR tape or DVD. Their comedy will continue to live on long after SNL is gone.
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It's not often that I have the time to give my grandmother a shout-out, but here it is. I want to give big props to my g-ma for her helping me to reach my quest of 'World's Strongest Man in the Email-Deleting Finger Catagory'. Thanks to her, I have added millimeters of girth and amazing definition to my email-deleting finger.
On any given Monday, I could spend minutes a day deleting all of the unread emails that she has forwarded me. I don't mean any disrespect to my grandmother, but I pretty much got the 'Obama = terrorist' message in your first email. You know I am a well informed, educated man. I graduated from an accredited university (UNT '07); you were there. I'm not amongst the undereducated masses that not only thought finishing high school was unnecessary, but also make up the majority of stereotypical Texans. I just don't fall into that group of people that is swayed by propaganda whether it is political, racist, or fear based.
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Seeing how I am a self-professed comic geek, I am generally my friends’ go-to source for any and everything comic book related. Currently, the most often asked question that I am getting is: “Why did they make another Incredible Hulk movie? Didn’t they just make one a couple of years ago?”
To answer that question, Marvel (comics) is taking a new direction with their movies. They will not be auctioning off licensing to the highest bidder as was done with Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Hulk. In doing so, we were subjected Spider-Man with organic webbing, The FF looking like a 2 hour commercial for toys, and the Hulk trying to be cerebral and romantic – Ang Lee style. Also with different studios owning the movies, the fans were never going to see crossover cameos like Tony Stark made in the Incredible Hulk.
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