December 2011
1 post
Sneezing: Just Let It Out
Where have I been? Check out: http://tildeskdouspart.com.
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So, we’re talking sneezing people.
What good does a dainty little “ah” do, if you don’t follow it with a “choooooo?”
It’s been a frustration of mine when people don’t actually let out there sneeze. It makes me feel uncomfortable for them. Kind of like when you’re...
October 2011
5 posts
Turkmenistan
Today we commemorate the 20th anniversary of Turkmenistan achieving independence from the Soviet Union.
A few fun facts about Turkmenistan (thanks Wikipedia):
* A little over 5 million folks call it home
* The GDP is nearly $32 billion
* Alexander the Great conquered the Turkmenistan area around 4BC. Way to go Al!
* They drive on the right side of the street. - No British nonsense on the left...
November 9th: nycTIES Annual Fundraiser for Go...
What are you doing on November 9th? Are you interested in hanging with me? Ok, I’m going to guess your responses to those questions were, “sitting on my ass watching Jersey Shores re-runs” and “maybe, if you pay me.”
How bout you spend a little coin to give back? I’ll promise you a dance if you do it. Yes, that goes for both ladies and gents. Enticing offer...
Competition: A little less wouldn't be all that...
It’s all around and probably has been a part of your life for as long as you can remember. Take a step back and appreciate what you’re done to date. It’s probably pretty impressive on some level. If not, well you there’s no way but up!
I can remember competition being a part of my life from my younger years. In elementary school there was competition for sports, big time....
BTAM Poll: Who is the worst of the worst?
I’m talking comedians here. Which of these “I don’t deserve any of my stardom” comedians takes the cake for being the worst of the worst?
You tell me.
VERSUS
Cheers,
Brad
A Happy Family on the Subway
Today I saw a truly happy family on the subway. It was very refreshing. No ornery parents. No obnoxious kids. Just a mom, dad, young daughter and young son, riding the subway, enjoying each others’ presence and genuinely getting along.
If I had a dollar for how many times I have seen this in the past few months, I’d have precisely one dollar.
Don’t get me wrong, I have seen...
September 2011
3 posts
Humility
It’s really one of the things I need out of all friends. If you’re not humble, you don’t have a chance to be my friend. Some of my friends are a big deal, they make beaucoup bucks. Would you know it? Absolutely not.
Don’t even try to be my friend if you want to brag about yourself, your grandiose accomplishments or the amount of money that you make. You’re talking to...
Playing that Song Over and Over Again
Do you ever play that song over and over again till it’s literally all you hear day and night? I have this affliction.
I hear a song, boom it’s played on YouTube every other minute on repeat. It helps to ruin the song quickly, but for that few week period, it just is SO delightful to the auditory senses. Am I right or am I right? I’d go with right.
Then there are some of those...
Keeping it to Yourself
Some people haven’t a filter. They are few and far between though. Some people will say with pride, I have no filter. I will then speak with them for 15-20 minutes and they will say not one thing that I legitimately think could offend anyone. When you truly find a person who will speak their mind at all times, you’ve found a gem, a person who really just don’t care and a person...
August 2011
11 posts
How do you go from "work friend" to "actual...
It’s not an easy transition. You’re friends with someone and you go out with them with other work folks. You get a bite with them for lunch. You randomly see them outside of work for the first time to get a lager out. Are you friends with them yet?
What constitutes that you are legitimately an actual friend and no longer a work friend?
I’m going to throw out a few occasions...
It's Time to Babe Ruth It
A wise man, ok, he’s not that wise, but he’s a close friend, gave me the above advise.
My Friend: Brad, you got to Babe Ruth it. Swing for the fences.
Me: What do you mean?
My Friend: You’re not going to hit any home runs if you’re trying to get up to the plate and go for an infield single. (I paraphrased that a bit)
Me: I’m going for more a solid single, that I...
Top 5 Lessons From Working in Digital Media
I’ve learned a bunch of things in my first few years out in the work force in the digital media field. Some I’m sure are lessons that cross verticals into other industries. Let me know if you have any other winners that I’m leaving out in this top 5.
1. No one is above taking a screenshot - If you think you are, then you probably should leave the industry. Ok, some don’t...
Bus Trips
If there’s one place that I have spent some not so pleasant hours aboard, it’s a bus. (I know you might think the toilet) I have taken pretty much every crappy motor coach you can imagine. Chinatown Bus, Megabus, Greyhound, Bolt Bus (not that crappy). Some/many of these trips have been with some folks who have a remarkable stench. Other journeys I have endured with strikingly obnoxious...
August 9th: National Rice Pudding Day
It’s marginally ridiculous that there is a National Rice Pudding day. I’m sure all you rice pudding aficionados are appalled by my lack of respect for rice pudding.
Chocolate pudding, delightful. Banana pudding, good not great. Vanilla pudding, acceptable. Rice pudding, not so much.
Rice pudding actually holds a random and dear place in my heart, although I’ve probably tasted...
White Pants: "I like, very nice"
White pants are superb. Thank you to the ladies who wear them.
What is it about white pants that really make them pop? I haven’t the fainted idea. I’m no fashionista. But they work and work well.
There is just something about when a girl wears white pants that I frankly can’t take my eyes off them. I’m sorry if I’m being an Alpha Male right now, but what did you...
BTAM Poll: Who has slept with more women Jeter or...
This was Saturday night’s debate. Now I’d like to know what the general public thinks. I won’t tell you what I went with, but I will tell you that one of the answers is right and the other one is wrong, in my humble opinion.
New Facebook Action: Commenting on Randoms...
New favorite action on Facebook. Comment to other people (preferably a complete stranger) who has commented on or Likes a friends status update/picture/video.
Example 1:
Friend’s Status: Just got my hair did.
Random Person’s Comment: I totally did too! Mine looks great.
BTAM Comment: I bet your hair looks great (insert random person’s name). I totes need pics. Where did you...
Your First Memory in Life
Do you remember yours? Of course you do.
Some claim to remember a few months into life when they were in their crib. I like to call those people liars. Some have a poor memory and remember their 8th birthday and nothing before that. Whatever it is, it’s usually something random or quite memorable, right?
Mine was a happy medium between being in the crib and 2nd grade.
I was in preschool...
DailyBuzz Style - You'll Love It, I guarantee it.
Disclaimer: This post is promotion of a work project I was a part of. A cool one, one that you should care about, because I care about it. What it is: A site designed, created and published by Federated Media as your one-stop shop for everything style. Beauty tips, home decor, stylish design, newest fashions, etc. (I know all of you are saying that I should probably read a thing or two about style...
"I totally do not remember last night"
“Hi Brad, so that last tequila shot really put me over the edge. I totally do not remember the last hour or so of last night. Did anything happen?”
Really, you don’t remember when we made out? You don’t remember the way you gazed into my eyes longingly? You don’t remember the fireworks that resulted once we played tonsil hockey? There is no way I was imagining that...
July 2011
21 posts
BTAM Poll: What's Friday night for?
What is Friday night for? You tell me.
Happy Friday,
Brad
The "Due Factor"
It started as a phrase that my friends and I used on the reg. The Due Factor.
What is it? It in layman’s terms it means you are due to have something go your way. To have a good luck on your side. Sports analogy: You’re due to get that ball to hit the foul pole as opposed to going foul.
When is it used? A series of unfortunate events that go against you. A week where a girl turns you...
Top 3 Things I cannot do and want to be able to do
I have this itch (no, I’m clean, don’t worry) to be able to do certain things. I’m incapable of doing these things for various reasons. Some of them due to physical set backs. Some due to lack of practice. Some frankly, I don’t know why I can do them.
Here is that top 5 of things I cannot do but sure want to be able to:
1) I cannot rolls my “r’s” in...
Btam Poll: Who is Your Favorite Mario Kart...
This is a game that is near and dear to my heart. One that I have bonded with many different men and women over. A game that has created many a laugh, a tear or two and countless screams. A game that transcends all other video games. Mario Kart.
Vote on your favorite character in the game. I will give you a hint, mine starts with a P and ends in an ACH. No more hints.
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Welcome to...
Sticking Your Foot in Your Mouth
Insert foot in mouth. Do you often find yourself saying this to yourself or others call you out for it? I think it’s a good thing. Hear me out.
If you weren’t sticking your foot in your mouth from time to time, then you weren’t saying anything controversial. If you’re not saying anything controversial, how do you keep someone’s attention? Valid point? I think so.
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Being Lazy is not a bad thing. Take pride in being...
It’s something I’m good at. It’s a passion of mine. Can I get paid for it?
I realized this weekend that I actually have a gift for being a bum. I can do it really well. Only leaving my apartment twice this weekend, spending inordinate amounts of time in front of my TV, ordering Seamless for all meals and only bathing once really proved it to myself. I stayed in my apartment for...
Second Verbal Post Ever about Posting Powerful...
Piggin' Out: A Bradley Hunter Eatery
I will be real, sometimes I’m a visionary. I have yet to move forward with some of these entrepreneurial ventures that I’ve come up with. Why? No investors. After you hear my below restaurant chain idea, you’ll be just as perplexed as I am that said investors aren’t knocking down my door.
So today I will share one of my restaurant ideas. Stop getting excited. Ok, you...
BTAM Poll: Can You Break Out of the Friends Zone?
Is it possible? I know it’s not probable, but can it actually happen? Let your voice be heard.
My heart say yes but my mind and past experience says, “no sir.”
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The Rating System by Ryan Berger
First and foremost I would like to say thank you to BTAM for allowing me this guest post. It is truly an honor and a privilege to write amongst one of the greatest writers of all time BTAM himself.
Now on to the topic of the day. “The Rating System” I am not referring to a movie rating system I am talking about The Hot Scale. 1 through 10. 1 being an absolute dog and 10 being a supermodel. ...
New Guest Post Manana
His name is Ryan Berger. He has neatly pinned back ears. He loves the Wendy’s dollar menu. He still uses his retainer. In other words, he’s a great human.
LSS (Long Story Short), I will be featuring his guest post tomorrow on BTAM. It’s a gem. The perks of being the publisher, I get to review prior to posting.
So be a peach and come enjoy his post tomorrow.
Some say his...
Various Things I'm Not Proud Of
If you think you’re ABOVE the extremely embarrassing things you have done, been infatuated with or dressed up as, then you either lead a boring life or you are selectively forgetting large chunks of your life. Be honest to yourself. Admit them, move on. Or don’t move on, continue to embrace them.
Here’s a list of the things I’ve done throughout my life that I am less than...
Instragr.am - I think we need to cool it a bit
I said it and I can’t wait for the response to this one.
Is it necessary to put the instagr.am effect on EVERY photo? I’m ok with a photo here or there, but when I see a whole album of 20+ photos with that patented curved border and slightly yellow tint with a touch of “old school” cool thrown in there, I get nauseous, or I think that person is just trying too hard.
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Nightmares: I missed class, I am going to fail. I...
Is it because I’m a worrier? It’s possible. Or maybe I’m like you all too? That’s up to you all to let me know. (Hint, hint: Drop me a comment for god sakes! Do I have to beg? I have no shame, so I will beg.)
So an inordinate number of times in the past years post college, I have had nightmares of missing class. Just had one a few nights ago. Is this because I missed a lot...
BTAM Shout Out: USA Women's Soccer Team,...
It’s about time for another shout out. And the US Women’s Soccer team seems as good a reason to spark up the shout outs as any.
Hell of a run they have had so far and looking forward to their Finals game on Sunday!
Extra shout out to Ali Krieger, who I knew in college. Not because I watched her play, but actually as a human outside of the pitch. (Yes, I’m trying to be extra...
BTAM Poll: What age is appropriate to rock the...
I’ve never done it because my stache would be an eye sore for all parties involved. But if I were to have a sudden change of faith, when would it be appropriate for me to rock the stache, if ever? You guys will be my barometer.
Much Love,
Brad
On The Subway: "I can do this & I am going to do...
Setting: Subway (probably 6 train)
Thoughts In Head: Say “Hi”, Say a cute thing or two + Get her Digits
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How Conversation Is Going to Go:
Me: “Oh hi there”
Her: “Hi”
Me: “So I never do this, but just wanted to say, you’re delightful, a ray of sunshine on a dreary day.”
Her: “So kind of you to say. You’ve said that to...
Photos: We're Getting a Little Liberal On What...
Just feet. (Maybe it’s because mine aren’t that appealing to look at) A pigeon in the sky. A folding chair. An unimpressive rock. A blank wall.
It’s really amazing what people think are compelling enough to take pictures of AND share with us on Facebook and Twitter. (Notice I’m not adding any other social media platforms, because they’re dumb. Yes that includes you...
"With All Due Respect" And Other Like phrases
When someone drops, “with all due respect” you’re bracing for the worst. You’re preparing for them to say something either ripping on you, something you did or something you believe in. It’s customary. (see Talledega Nights clip above).
Here’s a list of other “oh shit what are they going to say next” kind of phrases:
1) “I had a great time...
"I Only Do/Did It For Myself" - Liar
Sorry for the hiatus. I’ve been traveling. I’ve been working. I’ve been making memories with people.
That being said, there is something that people say and it kind of irks me.
“I only did it for myself.” “I don’t worry about what other people think, I’m going to do me.”
Come on, really? We all want recognition for things. No one wants to...
June 2011
3 posts
BTAM Poll: What's an acceptable number of people...
People love to throw others in their profile photo whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (I just said it) and various other dating sites.
So I’m the poll is what’s an acceptable number of people to have in your photo?
Personally, I think more than 2 with you, is not really appropriate. Why do you ask?
No need. Don’t you want people to be able to see your grill? I...
Things People Aren't Allowed to Do or Say Around...
I just lied to you all. Another post 20 mins ago.
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We all have those things that people just can’t do or say around you or you will make fun of them. It’s your obligation to yourself and them. Stay true to yourself!
1) No “Liking” your own status update or album or video upload on Facebook. Not allowed sorry.
2) Don’t say “my bitch” when...
I've Been Tanking and How to Get out of it (You...
I can be the first to admit it. I’ve tanked on posting and for that, I apologize. That being said, I will give the most cliche retort to this aforementioned “tanking”; I’ve been working hard at my job that pays me actual currency.
This is music to my coworkers ears. Not so much to those who actually enjoy reading this blog. (I’m looking at you mom)
In an effort to...
May 2011
9 posts
Things you can just bank on
There are somethings that are just a lock. Somethings that you know are just going to happen before they actually happen.
1) If a girl changes her status on Facebook to “single” then you are going to get at least one of the following two comment responses:
a) One friend who says, “yayy! so happy, let’s go out and get drinks soon to celebrate.” - or something very...
"Real liars" and how they try to convince you of...
I’m not talking about the little white liars that us normal folk drop from time to time. I’m talking about the real bonified liars. The liars who speak out of their ass, so much that it’s awe-inspiring. The “real” liars (aka - the people who love the challenge of convincing people of their obvious lies) are going to attempt to make you believe blatantly false...
We All Have Things We Need to Work On
Some might think this is a lie. Those are people I don’t hang out with or ever associate with.
Some examples from common society:
* Most very good looking people have to work on having a personality (I can vouch for this subset of society first hand)
* Really smart people have to fight to not be socially awkward
* People who over-think things all the time need to make a concerted effort...
BTAM Random Thoughts: Part III
I have some random thoughts. You’re welcome to boo me if I’m wrong. You’re welcome to cheer me if I’m right. You’re not welcome to not have some opinion. No one likes the apathetic person. Remember that.
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* Parents who yell at their kids for having too much fun or being “a little wild” are awful people. Their kids are going to turn into them...
Setting Low Expectations: The Key to feeling good
If you think I’m wrong, try it for a week. Yes, I insist, do it for a week.
BTAM Goals for last week:
1) Go to work for 5 days- Did I say get X, Y, Z accomplished? No. Easily attainable goal, check plus for me on this one.
2) Exercise once this week - Excuuuse me, I exercised twice this week. Exceeding goal. We’ll save that in the “extras’ bucket and use it when another...
BTAM Poll: Is it acceptable for men to pee sitting...
Some friends brought this up out of the clear blue sky. Yes, it honestly came out of nowhere. A male friend was talking about peeing sitting down. I personally don’t think it’s necessary, as a guy, we’re equipped so this isn’t necessary. He however swears by it and believes it’s really a lovely experience. So I bring up this poll to the public world of 10-15 of your...