The History of Jacke
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The Glamorous Colleague (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Introducing…the Objectino!* Overheard at an office meeting: WOMAN 1: I’ve always had this thing for the days of real glamour. You know, like the Fifties and Sixties, when women had style. I was born at the wrong time! I could see myself as an Audrey Hepburn…or a Jackie O… WOMAN 2: There’s a potato chip on your boob. Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Week 4: The Readers!
We’ve spent Thanksgiving week giving thanks to the Kids, the Elders, and Life’s Sweet Partners. That covers most ground (sorry friends, coworkers, and facebook people I’m pretending to recall better than I actually do – maybe next year!). Or at least it covers most ground personally. Professionally, I still owe someone special. My enormous debt of Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Week 2: The Elders
Oh boy. I’m really having a good time with Thanksgiving this year, but that’s no surprise. It’s my favorite holiday. Since yesterday was our day of giving thanks to the kids, let’s take things old school and bestow some gratitude on our elders. Here are a few excerpts from stories about the generations above me. My Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Week 1: Kids
I’ve got a big December planned here on the Jacke Blog. So I’m taking a breath and celebrating my favorite week of the year. Thanksgiving! Time to bring in the harvest, start up a fire, watch a little football, and keep the kitchen bustling. So today I’m giving thanks for children, who make all this Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 3 – The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Part One)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Oh, people! Episode 3 of THE JACKE WILSON SHOW is now available! This one is full of heartbreak and agony. Yes, that’s right, it’s The Worst Thing I Ever Did… confessions of real-life people as submitted by you, the readers. Also includes A History of Jacke in 100 Continue reading
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The Offering (A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #26)
And then something happened that changed everything. I wish I could start the story that way, because that’s how it felt when it happened: startling, vivid, breathtakingly transformative. Even now it makes my heart race, the moment when I looked down and saw what I saw on our front porch, and the follow-up moment when Continue reading
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Brush with Greatness: Harry Shearer and Me!
On Tuesday I launched into yet another high-flying ode to creative freedom and the indie spirit. I railed against the curtailing powers-that-be, those nattering nabobs of negativism, wherever they may reside. I talked about my own experiences with indie publishing, and I cited the example of Martin Short and Harry Shearer, who found the freedom to Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: On Hamlet Dad
Wonderful Reader cducey2013 comments on A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #9 – The Intersection (aka “Hamlet Dad Goes to the Movies”): “We’ll all get to the same place eventually.” This certainly reminds me of the graveyard scene in Hamlet, as well as the general sentiment throughout the play of “you are dust and to dust Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: Halloween Lizards and the Accidental Listener
Wonderful Listener Rose Red writes: I thoroughly enjoyed [episode two of the Jacke Wilson Show], which I had to listen to because I knew the Beatles would be mentioned. I am listening to the Halloween one and I think I just wet myself laughing at your take on the geckos in space. “Do they not have Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: The Folder of Laundry!
Wonderful Reader [or I guess Wonderful Listener] R listens to Episode 2 of The Jacke Wilson Show and writes: I love your whole thing about philosophers and drug effects. I had to laugh as you explained some Conte-crazed college kid jumping on a table and making some life-changing announcement. It’s amazing how ideas can MOVE Continue reading
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