The History of Jacke
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A Marriage at Odds (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Time for another Objectino!* This one comes straight from the underbelly of a marriage… A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO WIFE: [looking out the window] Oh great. It’s raining out. What are the odds that today is Saturday? HUSBAND: One in seven. WIFE: [exasperated] You know what I mean. It was sunny all week when I was stuck in that stupid Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 5 – The Gift
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Hmm, Episode 5 is shorter than usual. Maybe because I had TWO embarrassing vacuum cleaner stories and I only told ONE of them. I’ll have to save it for the Director’s Cut edition. It’s one of the cardinal rules of professional podcasting: do not tell two embarrassing Continue reading
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Reader Comment: More Thoughts on the Foxes
My favorite part of running this blog, by miles and miles, is reading the comments. Sometimes they make me laugh, sometimes they make me think, and sometimes they are very moving. Often it’s all of the above. And then there are those that make me proud. Because they say flattering things about the writing (thank you, everyone!). Or Continue reading
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The Shirt Pocket Avatar (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Back to the workplace for another Objectino!* A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO Overheard in an office meeting: MAN: I realized the other day that my shirt pockets are so thin you can see my photo ID through them. For years there’s been this little me riding around in my shirt, right on my chest, where everyone could Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 4 – The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Part Two)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Episode 4 is here! I’m back to my four a.m. silent-house stage whisper. You didn’t think that afternoon voice would last forever, did you? Luckily I have a good microphone and an up-close personality. Or you can use it as white noise, to drift away to dreamland. I’m Continue reading
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Great Moments in Parenting (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Today’s Objectino* includes a video! A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO Two young parents are admiring their sleeping six-month-old boy. FATHER: He’s getting so big—pretty soon he’ll be learning how to read, and we’ll be watching all those great educational shows, like Sesame Street and Electric Company… MOTHER: Oh yeah! Electric Company. Those two silhouettes talking to Continue reading
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New Office Technology (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Today’s Objectino* goes back to the land of the Blood Cake… A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO After the New York office criticized us for having old equipment, our bosses splurged on a new videoconference room with state-of-the-art technology. At our next weekly luncheon with New York, we were excited to demonstrate how the camera swiveled automatically to focus Continue reading
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Today’s Comments of the Week: The Foxes (And Some Good News for Jacke!)
I’m very pleased to announce that my post The Offering (A History of Jacke Wilson in 100 Objects #26) has been selected for WordPress’s Freshly Pressed showcase feature. Hooray! There it is, right between a terrific post about the new black stormtrooper in the next Star Wars installment and a post from Longreads (a wonderful Continue reading
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The Cladogram (A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #27)
I was a young father raising a toddler in New York City. I was also a broke, miserable student buried under an avalanche of student loans. In my filthy, sleep-deprived condition I suddenly remembered Thomas Hobbes’s description of life, which I’d read years earlier. What was the line? Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and…something else. Continue reading
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The Wayward Joke (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Yesterday was fun! Let’s try another Objectino!* Dinnertime. An earnest seven-year-old is attempting to tell a joke: BOY: Okay. Two cannibals are eating a clown. What does one cannibal say to the other? BOY’S MOTHER: I don’t know, what? BOY: “Does this taste funny?” BOY’S MOTHER: Why are two cannonballs eating a clown? Continue reading
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