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I can be your scapegoat
If you will be my sailboat
Help me catch this tide
Leave it all on the shoreside,
We can be as wild or as tame as we like,
Depending on the wind and the waves that we ride
I know you need a reason to run out free
Baby make up an excuse and call it me.

I can be your alibi
If you will be my fancy tie
We’ll cruise the streets in limousines
I’ll buy you suits and shiny pins
On our own we’ll be alone
Together we’d get Al Capone.
I know that we’re not not really spies
But girl let me be your disguise.

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Maybe I’ll keep adding to this. The first verse was inspired by the word scapegoat. The second verse was inspired by Chuck. It sounds better if you rap it.

It’s like I’m stuck waiting
for a moment that matters,
except the moment never comes
until it shatters
in my face
like I was running a race
and finished second place
and the man who beat me disappeared
without a trace.

Until I discovered that the man who won was none other than me
a version of myself that didn’t wait for opportunity
to be served on a platter
he made every decision, every action matter

Because every second you live is more special than the last
and if you don’t grab hold it’ll disappear fast
like the man who beat me to the finish line
I wish he was me, and what he had was mine.

Well…

maybe next time.

Update (2.8.12): now that I’ve switched to Tumblr, the game may have completely changed.

I was emailing someone some advice about how to write a good blog post, based on everything I’ve learned in the past year, and realized it was good advice out of context also. Here it is:

The major thing that I like to see in blog posts is good formatting, and this little post was my AHA moment when I started. Think of newspaper articles or press releases, and then think of the exact opposite, and that’s an ideal blog post.

Use:

• short paragraphs,
• using emphases (bold/italic).
• simple language → i started by trying to sound like a scholar, and ended up sounding like a fool.
• improper grammar → run on sentences are totally fine and are actually appreciated and are actually better at holding attention sometimes. Really.
• hyperlinks *(see below for my pet peeve)
• an image is usually considered to be good too, but I’m personally not in love with them, unless it’s necessary. One good thing about having an image in your blog post is that when you post it to a social site (like fb), the site uses images in the blog post as thumbnails for link previews, rather than not having an image or picking something that you don’t want.
• oh, and general blogging gurus say that lists (like this one or with numbers) are nice to look at.

As far as content goes, I don’t have many guidelines. As long as it is relevant, it’s kosher.

*———–hyperlink rant————
my personal geeky pet peeve on hyperlinks is as follows:

If you’d like to read more about this topic, check out this article: http://www.thisisareallylongurl.com/some-text&symbols&_nonsense_285_page2.htm

links are meant for further reading, so extraneous explanation of why they are there is usually unnecessary. And copy/pasting the actual url/permalink of the target page makes geeks like me gag. use links artfully.
——end hyperlink rant——

The guidelines I give to guest authors on the college of business blog I manage are really simple:

1. be original,
2. write something cool,
3. and don’t write an essay.