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Jet Blue’s Steve Slater Kills It Big Time…plus, Paul visits Butte Montana’s Superfund Site: The Berkeley Pit

Jet Blue’s Steve Slater Kills It Big Time…plus, Paul visits Butte Montana’s Superfund Site: The Berkeley Pit

paulcrik August 11, 2010 14

Boom Pow Presto: Steve Slater. This man has provided the nation with the feel good story of the year, hands down. The question we have to ask ourselves is what chord did he strike?

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Vogue Italia’s Oil-Spill-Inspired Fashion Editorial…plus, Paul Explains Why You Should Swear at Your Children

Vogue Italia’s Oil-Spill-Inspired Fashion Editorial…plus, Paul Explains Why You Should Swear at Your Children

paulcrik August 10, 2010 16

Much attention has been paid to the recent issue of Vogue Italia which contains a fashion editorial inspired by this year’s catastrophic BP oil spill.  While some call it art, others decry the photographs

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Paul on The Death of Type O Negative’s Peter Steele…plus, Revisiting How to Kill Addiction

Paul on The Death of Type O Negative’s Peter Steele…plus, Revisiting How to Kill Addiction

paulcrik April 22, 2010 12

On April 13 the lead singer of Type O Negative, Peter Steele, died from heart failure at 48 years old. His music was a combination of the morose Gothic and aggressive heavy metal –

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Paul on March Madness…Plus, revisiting the first ever “Killin’ It with Paul Crik” video, on FEAR itself

Paul on March Madness…Plus, revisiting the first ever “Killin’ It with Paul Crik” video, on FEAR itself

paulcrik April 9, 2010 101

If you were part of the annual American television watching tradition known as “March  Madness,” you got to experience one of the more exciting and hyped final games of recent memory.  The billing on

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Paul on Genies, Sorcerers, and Bees… Plus, Love 2.0

Paul on Genies, Sorcerers, and Bees… Plus, Love 2.0

admin April 6, 2010 16

Last November, thousands of online viewers witnessed the wedding of Sal 9000 and Nene Anegasaki. Sal 9000 is a 27 year-old resident of Tokyo, Japan and Nene Anegasaki exists in an online game. Love,

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Paul-as a troll-Defends a Nomadic Lifestyle…Plus, Another Brilliant Ode to Iron Mike Tyson

Paul-as a troll-Defends a Nomadic Lifestyle…Plus, Another Brilliant Ode to Iron Mike Tyson

paulcrik March 26, 2010 106

Truebadour.  Three words: True. Bad. Our. Sometimes etymology gets it right.  The troubador tradition started in the 11th century, a style for rhetorical musical poetic fiction that even today finds many a fan happy

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Paul Chatroulettes and discusses The War on Drugs

Paul Chatroulettes and discusses The War on Drugs

paulcrik March 21, 2010 14

Recently I’ve been spending some time on the newly super-popular chatroulette.com.  Wow, what an idea! In the short time it’s been online (less than 6 months), its user base has expanded exponentially, with hordes

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Crik on Lists…Plus, Optimizing The Present instead of just “Being an Optimist”

Crik on Lists…Plus, Optimizing The Present instead of just “Being an Optimist”

paulcrik March 15, 2010 14

If you buy into the “think positive and it will be positive” hype, you’re probably looking at the current socio-economic situation thinking it will eventually get better. But how do we prepare to take

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Tiger Woods is Gettin’ Killed

Tiger Woods is Gettin’ Killed

paulcrik December 18, 2009 122

Amidst the Tiger uproar here’s an angle i haven’t heard. It may seem harsh (uncrik) at one level by pointing out someone’s failing but I think it leads to a broader point… Earl Wood’s

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I Don’t Know What It’s Like…I Really Don’t

I Don’t Know What It’s Like…I Really Don’t

paulcrik December 18, 2009 101

Holy Moly! Most people I know are so busy thinking about the things they do do, they don’t imagine the millions of things they don’t do. Think about it, you could spend whole days

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The End of Books?

The End of Books?

paulcrik November 10, 2009 109

Ever think about how the time people spend online is time spent reading, but not reading books? Ever ponder the dwindling profits of book publishers? The general diminishing of the american attention span –

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What If You’re Completely Wrong?! . . . Plus, Paul Weighs in on Obama’s Nobel

What If You’re Completely Wrong?! . . . Plus, Paul Weighs in on Obama’s Nobel

paulcrik October 15, 2009 115

If there’s any consensus about Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace prize last week, it’s that the award was given somewhat prematurely, perhaps in an effort to strengthen the presidents resolve on the tough

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