If you’re like me, you’re wondering why the hell you keep supporting such a high brow industry if what you really enjoy watching are the emotional stories buried in films without named talent or million dollar budgets. So why did we tune in this year? Why do we keep responding to these award shows like they’re elections? 

This is a question of which is more powerful - sex or violence?

By no means am I suggesting one over the other, but I’ve recently noticed a violent trend emerge in advertising that’s had me missing the superfluous underdressed models we’ve become accustomed to.

So how do you maintain a working relationship with those you so strongly disagree with? How do you have a positive outlook on life, career, or the future, if Sally down the hall is inadvertently preventing your cancer-ridden children from staying on your health care plan another few years? 

The quick answer is you don’t. 

There have been actual scientific studies that say Mondays are Americans’ worst day of the week. We get the least amount of work done and most people won’t smile until after 11 am. 
But scientific studies are often merely a reflection of our lives. 
They don’t tell us Why. They only confirm our already established suspicions.

Tinder is the future of the one night stand; but can we take a moment to discuss the presence of ad space on our ephemeral, but endearing social dating app?

No one enjoys waking up. That’s no great discovery, it’s common sense - sleep gives us what we all want - dreams come true. We're often too preoccupied with our crushed dreams to even zombie crawl our way through life.

Then why the hell would we ever want to wake up? 

In a business sense of the word, yes is probably the most important tool you can use. It’s not always the most efficient, nor the most beneficial, but it is important.

Sometimes you wake up with hardened drool connecting your mouth to your girlfriend’s inherited, embroidered pillow and you ask yourself if the saliva oozing out of you is worthy of this pillow - if your mouth is worthy of this excrement - if your body is worthy of all the work you’re putting it through and if your mind… your special, unique, little mind is anything special or unique; and is it worth the amount of stress you’re putting it through every day of work. 

An art teacher once told me she had never used an eraser before.
Ever.
Obviously I didn’t believe her. Who could? She’s teaching Art to a gathering of eight year olds who think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after pasta variations.
She said no mark made in the hands of an artist is a mistake. It all works together to produce something no other artist could create.