Pounding The Keyboard

       So, I was listening to John Lennon’s Double Fantasy , and I was suddenly reminded of an incident during my high school days (which was awfully a long time ago, the telephone was just invented then, I think). We were in a male classmate/friend’s house, I can’t remember what we were doing but somebody told this classmate/friend of mine to play some music.   And he said they didn’t have music in the house, and he didn’t know any singers or bands— and they were upper middle class.     He asked for some recommendations on what music he should listen to, and I remember saying, The Beatles. I still didn’t know Pink Floyd then. Lol. He just nodded and we continued what we were doing.     After a month or two, I think, we went back to his house, and lo and behold, he proudly showed me his Beatles collection (all their albums) including some solo albums of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. He told me he listened to them every ...

       Lately, whenever I scroll through my Facebook account, several topics from Threads (the Twitter/X-like platform of Facebook) would appear on my News Feed, and one of the most persistent topics I would see was about this unfamiliar (to me) term: avoidants .      Finally, this morning, I got curious and googled it—turns out it’s a personality disorder. Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is marked by poor self-esteem and an intense fear of rejection, including or especially when it comes to a romantic relationship. Some people with AVPD tend to choose partners they view as less demanding, or of lower status, or emotionally unavailable, individuals who aren’t likely to reject or criticize them. Meaning, rather than commit to a serious relationship to someone with whom they share a mutual love, they’d go for flings, or one-night stands, or married individuals. You know, the kinds of relationship that are easily escapable, or well, avoidable. ...

      The Office has lots of crazy and hilarious moments, but this bit from two-parts episode "Money" (season 4), is one of my favorites. I could relate to it as I used to struggle on when to use "who" and "whom" correctly. Lol. The CPR training scene and the fire drill from season five's "Stress Relief" are also infamously hilarious, but I haven't watched the whole episode, and I'm digressing.       "Money" was nominated for an Emmy.      Funniest line is from Kelly: "Ryan used me as an object."      Context: Ryan, the bearded guy, dumped her.      Maybe, I should start a The Office blog. Lol.      Whatever.

That one night You made everything alright So raw, so right, all night, alright Oh, yeah        I read a comment on a Facebook post that says Donald Trump is basically Michael Scott from The Office . It makes sense, because the two men, according to their critics, are both arrogant and have gigantic sense of self-importance. That they are both self-professed geniuses (but are actually idiots, childlike, immature, and incompetent managers) and think they know about everything and are better than everyone else.      Trump repeatedly says that he is going to lower drug prices by 500, 600 percent while Scott says he is not superstitious but just a little stitious .      Both suffer from pathological need to be liked and admired.      Doctors think these two men suffer from malignant narcissism and histrionic personality disorder (and also dementia for Trump.)      But according to his critics, ...

       The Office (the American version) is officially on Netflix now—and because it’s one of the reasons I resubscribed to Disney+, I decided to cancel my Disney+ subscription. It’s not that Disney+ is bad, it’s just that Netflix is a lot better for me and its line-up of shows more satisfying.      The Office , starring Steve Carrel (the boss), John Krasinski (of the A Quiet Place movies), Rainn Wilson and Jenna Fischer among others, is an award-winning mockumentary sitcom TV series. It depicts the everyday work lives of employees of a paper company while a documentary camera follows them.      Rolling Stone named it as one of the greatest TV shows of all time.      I’m still on the last few episodes of Season 3 so I don’t know if I can wholly agree with Rolling Stone , but almost all the episodes I have watched are hilarious. The show ran for nine seasons (from 2005-2013) and every season has twenty plus episodes ...

       Yes, he still remembers and cherishes that connection…      More than four decades ago, he, then a married man with kids, suddenly got close with a pretty single co-worker.      She showered him with favors and attention; the other workers could see that.      She would flirt with him with her eyes and would always be thrilled to see him.      She would always ask him to sit close to her whenever they were together in a room.      “If you have any feelings for her,” he would tell his male friends, “Forget it.”      He was certain she would eagerly run away with him once he decided to leave his family for her—but he decided to stay with his wife.      And that she remained unmarried because she couldn't get over him.      “Do you see that?” he tells the man in white standing beside him when something distracts him from his...