Archive for March, 2009

Grammatically Correct Arguments

I’ve found that it’s very difficult to be in fight with someone where you’re yelling at him/her in a pure rage of fury and at the same time sustain correct grammar and syntax. It’s an art, really. Either you’re going to sound intelligent and lose the anger, or you’re going to sustain being mad, but [...]

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First Date Feeling Like Audition?

My friend was telling me that he doesn’t like going on first dates because they feel too much like a job interview. On the flip side, though, I love going on job interviews because they always feel like first dates. When I live in Los Angeles, I miss the pizza, I miss the bagels, but [...]

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My Favorite Dance Song

In my opinion, there’s no question as to the best song of the decade. It’s hands-down that bar mitzvah/crappy wedding song (as in the wedding is crappy, not the song), that starts, “Every-body clap your hands…” It then continues with specific lyrics like, “Sliiiide to the left…sliiiiide to the right.” This is easily the best [...]

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Not Funny T-Shirts

If someone is wearing a T-shirt with a joke on it, it’s usually an effective way to tell that said person is not funny. I never understood the mindset of purchasing things so not funny, but it must strike as genius while the moron is wandering through Hot Topic or along Venice Beach. Wearing the [...]

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Laser Beam Toilet Flusher

I take my time when I’m on the toilet. Nothing excessive, just I get a book or a newspaper and make myself at home, even when I’m out and about. But I recently realized that you know you spend too much time on the toilet when the laser beam automatic flusher just decides that it’s [...]

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Dance Club Pickup

It’s not that white Jewish men don’t dance. That would be a Semetic and cultural stereotype. More accurately, white Jewish men don’t know how to dance. The stereotypes just come out of that. We collectively have nothing against going to dance clubs and electronica shows and raves. The problem is that we don’t have a [...]

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Movie Theater in the Movie Theater

I went to the movies yesterday, and for the first time, the characters in the movie I was watching went to the place where I was watching the movie itself. It was bizarre. I had a much-needed night off, so I decided to relax, get away from everything, head for a little escapism, so I [...]

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Portfolio

Loglines, awards, distinctions and summaries of Max Lance’s writing samples, which can be requested off the contact page.

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Lunch-Motivated Employment

Have you ever taken a job, not because of the benefits package or salary, but because the have the best lunch policy from your job offers? My current company offers a very competitive lunch-bought-for-you-every-day salary offer, which topped any work-for-regular-money offer I had encountered. But the side effects of this were incalculable. It’s not just [...]

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Dream Girl

Do you ever wish that you could take the most appealing qualities from a variety of girls you have dated and assemble them into one megatron-perfect girl? The thing that surprises me the most about this, isn’t the fact that I would do it, but how many qualities I would incorporate to accomplish the feat. [...]

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