You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps

I’ve met more messed-up, weird, freaky, oddball, and flat-out crazy people in my last six months online than I did in my entire ten years working at the S&M Slip n’ Slide Factory for the Criminally Insane in Hoboken, New Jersey — just across the street from the Klingon Language University.

It’s strange. Everyone I know who is successful online is crazy. Every one of them is unconventional. Many have A.D.D., and some have … Continue Reading

Why I’m exactly like Morpheus (How to turn your life totally backward in six months)

It’s weird. I have this hypothetical scenario in my head. I know it’s hypothetical because it involves Doc Brown from Back to the Future.

I imagine going back in time six months, to the end of March of this year. And the future me eschews all of the warnings about interacting with past selves, lest I cause a temporal paradox or become my own grandfather or something, and instead goes right up to the … Continue Reading

Screw SEO

I’m typing this post with one hand because I’m wielding a pair of nunchucks with the other to keep search engine optimization ninja Michael Martine at bay. I was like, “You know what, Michael? Screw SEO!” And then he started doing that thing where you run up the wall and do a backflip while pitching throwing stars at me, and I knew I’d hit a hot button.

This SEO question has been a topic … Continue Reading

I know what I am

For some weird-ass reason, it seemed imperative to me that this post be named what it is, and it was the kind of imperative where somehow it seems like it’s a really witty move, like you all are going to read it and think that I’m really clever, like the time I named a post “I’m Mad As Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore,” which, of course, every single … Continue Reading

I NEED YOUR OPINIONS! What should the future of Johnny B. look like?

I need your help, oh awesome and faithful reader. This is your chance to shape the future of Johnny B. Truant, because I know that’s the ambition of every one of you. Admit it.

Here’s the thing: I’ve grown a lot over the past few months, and find myself at a crossroads. Something needs to change, and I’m not sure what, or how.

So here’s the story.

(I’ll just warn you that this will … Continue Reading