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John Ochwat | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: John Ochwat. John Ochwat is a recovering journalist, the co-author of one of the most obscure academic books of all time, and was a columnist for the publication the Columbia Journalism Review called "The Worst Newspaper in America" (regrettably, he was not singled out for mention). His work has appeared in McSweeney's. Among other places. He's also a dabbling musician, an intermittent blogger at First Person Irregular. November 13, 2014.
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Traveler vs. Hotel Room | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. Traveler vs. Hotel Room. April 23, 2013. I’ve been traveling a lot for work, which often means a bad night’s sleep. For complicated reasons involving hotel no-vacancies, my only room option last week was on the other side of the machinery at the top of the elevator shaft. If you can imagine the sound of enormous carts rolling across bumpy pavement every ten to twenty seconds, you’ll have an idea of what it sounded like. And then the elevators started to rumble again. Those things...
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John vs. Capitalism, the Soccer Shoe Edition | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. John vs. Capitalism, the Soccer Shoe Edition. November 13, 2014. This is what happens if you oppose our marketing juggernaut. The Great Multinational Shoemongers. Hire platoons of designers, analysts and marketers to fine-tune their zeitgeist-piercing value propositions and beam them into the cerebral cortices of impressionable young shoe-shoppers, such as my son. Then there’s me, Just a Bloke Trying to Do Right by His Son and Keep His Wallet from. The Epic Battle of Epicness.
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First Person Irregular | Page 2
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Movie Review: “The Wrecking Crew,” by Denny Tedesco. August 8, 2012. On Monday night I went to see a screening of a really good documentary called “ The Wrecking Crew. 8221; about a group of little-known Los Angeles studio musicians who played on hundreds of hit records in the 1960s. In a sense, The Wrecking Crew were never supposed to be the subject of a documentary, or of a book by Ken Hartman that came out this year. A bassist) were th...
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My Canada Day Memory | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. My Canada Day Memory. July 1, 2013. When he was sweating inside the uniform, I did the same. Plus, the name had just changed. So I spent half the day explaining that “It’s no longer called Dominion Day, it’s called Canada Day.” And then I handed out little Canadian flags. Since I was actually born in the US, I got a laugh out of lecturing Canadian kids on an approved-by-government-committee holiday name change. Kid: “Why isn’t it Dominion Day anymore? Kid: “Oh.”. Je ne sais quoi.
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Little Victories | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. August 14, 2013. My friend has multiple sclerosis. MS is a nasty disease, which has robbed my friend of the ability to walk. She gets by with an electric scooter and a wheelchair, but for someone who has traveled around the world, it’s been a tough adjustment. She wanted to ride the slides. Specifically, the biggest, hairiest slide in the park. So she and her husband asked whether they could do that. The first lifeguard was nice, but said the rule was that if she could get up the...
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The Ethernaut | First Person Irregular
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Skip to primary content. From 1997 to 2001 I wrote a column for. Called The Ethernaut, which recommended fun websites in the newspaper’s Friday entertainment section. I also archived the columns online. After I stopped writing the column I discontinued the site, but thanks to the Internet Archive, the most of the old sites live on and on. Here’s the 1997 – 1999 archive. When I let my dementias come out and play). Here’s the 2000 – 2001 archive. Here are 10 of my favorites. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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