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… 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… Continue Reading

Recording of the Charlie Gilkey and JBT jam session

A month or so ago, Charlie Glikey from Productive Flourishing and I figured out that despite knowing all of the same people and running in the same online circles, we had never so much as crossed paths except for that time I broke into his house and started throwing aluminum trash cans at his refrigerator.

So I sent him a message on… 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… Continue Reading

I am JohnnyBTruant.com. Hear me roar!

I’m sitting here looking at a blank white screen (I write posts in a text editor first, then copy them onto my blog) and find myself really at a loss as to what to say. It has nothing to do with how much I actually have to say. Rather, it has everything to do with feeling out of place.

Like, you know how when… Continue Reading