Buck Hardcastle
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Viscount of Hyrkania and private cartographer to the house of Beifong.
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A review of music from 1996
Pop asks ecclesiastical questions While pop songs with spiritual undertones were not new, mainstream acts tended to leave overt religious themes to Christian rock groups. Not so in 1996. There were two big religious songs that year. The better one was Jewel’s Who will save your soul? The song is about a materialistic society full of people ready take advantage of others to get ahead. People aren’t cartoonish villains though, they are left wondering about the scars their actions have left on their souls. People ask god for salvation but without knowing what god even is. Hence we’re all looking for someone, anyone, to save us and we’re so desperate that it might just be a devil that answers our pleas.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Beat
Money can’t buy happiness, but can you be paid to be happy?
Early into the course Be Happy: How to Bring More Joy to Your Life participants are asked the following: “Please introduce yourself to the class. Who are you? Why did you decide to join the class? What are you hoping to learn?” My answer was blunt:
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Psyche
Spring 2021 starts on March 20th, unless it started on March 1st.
“Happy first day of Spring!” A coworker said to me, and she wasn’t the first one to say it. I looked outside, it was snowing. It had snowed almost everyday since November. What were these people thinking? This was not Spring.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in FYI
Either I'm having a COVID fever dream or "Space Jam 2" is real and important. Top Story - March 2021.
I must be unwell. Perhaps I should get tested for COVID-19. See, I think I’m having a fever dream, I’ve been seeing things that just can’t be so. Remember like a decade ago there was that joke going around the internet that there ought to be a Space Jam 2 starring LeBron James? What a ridiculous idea that would be. I mean, Space Jam was a movie that was largely enjoyed ironically, a so-bad it’s good film. I mean the movie was based on a Nike commercial.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Geeks
6 of the Best Shaggy Dog Stories
A shaggy dog story is a kind of joke, but one that's on the listener. They're meandering stories with purposefully anti-climatic endings. The name comes from a story about a man with a dog, and everyone comments on how shaggy this dog is. One day he enters the dog in a "shaggiest dog competition." He does a lot of training for the competition. On the big day, a judge takes one look at his dog and says "That dog isn't that shaggy."
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Geeks
FAQ about being an English teacher in Japan.
I worked as a teacher of English as a foreign language in Japan, 2008-09. I worked for GEOS which was a private company with small language schools all over the country. I specifically worked in two towns, Gotemba and Mishima, both were near Mount Fuji. These are some questions I was asked while working in Japan.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Education
The reason we divide up our days into two sets of twelve.
As a great philosopher of our time put it, “Time is a valuable thing, Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings, Watch it count down to the end of the day, The clock ticks life away.” But why is time counted the way it is--the day first divided by two (AM and PM) then twelve (hours) then sixty (minutes) and then sixty again (seconds). It’s all so needlessly complicated. Why don’t we have a nice metric style system where everything is divisible by ten? To understand how we came to our current system of timekeeping we need to first ask this question:
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in FYI
Let’s cancel everything to torment conservative snowflakes.
I recently walked into the middle of an animated conversation about how Dr. Seuss was being canceled which was horrible because the speakers all loved Dr. Seuss (the speakers all being middle aged adults). At the time I had no idea what they were talking about, but I immediately sensed that it was all bullshit.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in The Swamp
On being signed by a talent agency
In 2007 I was at a music festival, Pointfest, l when I passed by a tent for Images Agency Models & Actors. They were offering candy if you gave them your contact information. I gave them my contact info and then forgot about it.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Journal
