Girls and social network pictures

I have been realizing something over the last few months... girls tend to change their Twitter picture a lot more often than guys do. In fact, there are a handful of girls that I notice have a different picture on there every week. So why do they do this? Some girls tell me that they don't need explanation for what they do... that most of what women do is unexplainable and not worth trying to figure out. I agree with that in some aspects, but I'm stepping out of the ignorant circle for this question, because I have a few ideas of how to answer...

Read More

Spillin It

So I haven't been on here for a couple weeks, mainly because of the new blog venture I started up called The Pittsburgh Pierogi, but I'm back on here at least for tonight, because I have some real shit to say. This post probably won't be very funny, but that's okay because contrary to what I actually believe, not everything in life should be something you can laugh at. I have a pretty effed up view of things anyways. Let me also tell you that blogspot is so much simpler and faster than wordpress. Let's learn a lesson from Wordpress. If you...

Read More

The Five Types of Tweets

I've been on Twitter for a few years now, and far too much of my brain power goes into it. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know how frustrated and worked up I can get with the way people use Twitter. The fact is that not everyone acts how I want them to, which isn't wrong. In fact, the world is probably better that way. Not probably, definitely. Anyways, in this post I will attempt to classify all types of tweets into FIVE TWEET TYPES (TT's). It's up to you to determine if that's a boob reference. TT #1 - Status Updates: These...

Read More

We Can All Learn From Grinnell College

Last night a division three basketball player named Jack Taylor scored 138 points in a single basketball game. That sounds impressive. It sounds impressive because it is impressive - but maybe not quite as impressive as you may think. If you saw that headline and thought this wasn't a planned thing for even half a second, you should see a doctor. The whole system was designed to get this kid as many points as possible and make the news. It's not...

Read More

No Topic Tuesday... on a Wednesday

Apparently it's not Tuesday anymore. Most of my daily frustration comes from people's tweets - namely people with whom I attend college with. I have an honest question: has complaining about something in your life on Twitter ever made the bad situation anything but worse? It honestly bothers me when all I see from people is how much they like some girl/guy and they don't like them back, or how they want to do something but they can't, or just general talk about all the bad things in their life. I understand venting, but is social media really...

Read More

No Topic Tuesday

I've been itching to write in here again, but no big topic has come to mind in recent days, so I just now decided to create "No Topic Tuesday", in which I write blog posts that have no theme, point, meaning, or really any positive qualities whatsoever. Seriously I just thought of this after I opened the new post. I had a couple sentences written down which were total garbage then this brilliant sub-par idea came into my head. What's been frustrating me lately is how people can't spell. The problem with spelling these days is that everything is...

Read More

Senior Year Seminar

Eyes... ears... testicles... lungs... senior years. What are "things you only get two of for 800, Alex". So that was sort of opposite Jeopardy I guess... Anyways, senior year is like 3/8ths over and I realized that I haven't even offered my horribly destructive advice on the subject yet. Senior year is like the moonlanding. Freakin' Neil Armstrong went crazy his senior year. I heard that Armstrong got so drunk at a party that he tried to...

Read More

People Pleasing

Hurricane Sandy was a real bitch. Not only did she drown Atlantic City and knock over the Empire State Building, she screwed up all the emotions of people all around me. So everyone keeps telling me that it might not have been the rain that has been screwing with all of us as much as its been just the ups and downs of life and the confusion of youth and the changes of life. It's been a lot easier for me to just blame everything on the hurricane...

Read More

Gonna Try to Write A Paragraph with Boxing Gloves On

hgm , klc s ;xsfsgxs;n nkjh lo vikmbgjk bglki dx wow screw that I don't know how boxers do anything...

Read More

Election Week and Sandusky is Still Here

For every day that passes I get one day closer to leaving Waynesburg and embarking on the next chapter of my life. You can say the same thing for Jerry Sandusky, except that creep's next chapter is death. So that sucks. As you can tell it's taking me a little bit of time to get over the whole Sandusky thing. It's taking me even a longer time to get over the fact that like 2% of people in life are entertaining and relaxed about things. We're in college, where nothing really matters all that much and yet people are still up tight and scared of...

Read More

No Shaving and Breast Awareness

This post is about No Shave November and Breast Cancer Awareness, but the title had you thinking of other things, didn't it? "No Shave November" pisses me off. There are two reasons for that. Number one is that I once knew this kid who could grow hair like nobody's business, like this dude had hair coming out of his eyeballs - and this was all the time, not even just during months where he elected not to shave. So anyways, no shave November comes...

Read More

Presidential Problems

I had a few sentences written here AND THEN I JUST ERASED EM. Let's get to the POINT. So much of presidential elections is determined by which candidate speaks better. They do all these debates and campaigning and everything that shows off how good they are at public speaking. But why does a president have to be a good public speaker? F'real. Being a president is mainly about having good judgement, having good morals and ethics, and having good hair. Just because you aren't good at saying what you want to say doesn't mean that you can't put...

Read More

One Fight is Two Fights

I'm not a fighter. I'm also not much of a lover. If there's a third option in that expression, that's probably what I'm looking at. I don't love Hurricane Sandy. I also sure as hell don't wanna fight Hurricane Sandy. Momma told me not to fight nature when I was a kid. She also told me not to talk to strangers, touch the hot stove, or constantly wet the bet after I turn 14 years old. I've done a great job at all but one of those... I'll leave it at that. But if anybody has some extra bed sheets let me know. Back to the original point of the post....

Read More

Splurge

I'm just gonna send a bunch of stuff your way here and see what happens. It's been awhile since I've dumped my problems off on somebody... because nobody will listen to my problems... also I don't really have many problems to dump. Also one time I dumped in a no dumping zone and got fined... so I'm always careful with my dumps now. Let me also tell you this. That girl to my right is incredibly good looking. I tweeted this one earlier, but it's amazing what throwing a "haha" at the end of a text message can do for you. It's wild. You can say...

Read More

How to Dress Up for Halloween without Dressing Up for Halloween

Halloween weekend is upon us. This year Halloween is on a Wednesday, so in a way that gives you two Halloween weekends. I'd like to give you a brief synopsis of the holiday, however at the same time I would really not like to do that. When you're a kid, you dress up for Halloween and go trick-or-treating, which is really messed up. What kind of trick can a 7 year old play on a 45 year old man who owns his own house? If you're giving me the option...

Read More

Going with the Flow

Can I get something off my chest? It took me until I was like 13 years old to figure out how blinds worked. You know how if you pull the strings to the left, it unlocks them so you can adjust the height, but if you pull them straight down it just pulls them up locks where you stop? Yeah, I just thought that it was completely random when they'd lock. Then one day in my room I figured it out... now I have a blog. The rest is history. Also, I tried to buy Swagger at the body wash store today and they told me that I was already over the legal limit....

Read More

We All Still Write in Print

This blog is only five posts old, and I've probably given enough horrible life advice to feed like fifty posts, but this one is going to have some good shit in it, I swear. Don't get me wrong, there's gonna be some detrimental suggestions too, because no True Life with Jon Anderson post would be complete without something that could really screw up someone's life. My parents and teachers always told me that if I work really hard, get involved,...

Read More

I Wanna Be in a History Book

The title suggests that this is going to be me talking about how I want to be great and be known for doing something big... that'd be cool and all, but not what I'm going for here. Have you ever heard the story of the Boston Massacre? 'Course you have. Remember how it all started with those dudes throwing snowballs at the British soldiers? That's inspiring to me. These guys were just regular guys without enough courage or social standing to fight...

Read More

Lowering the Bar

Got a tweet from one of my favorite Waynesburg University goers, Kyle Oland this morning that inspired this very blog post: Where you place "the bar" has a huge impact on your day-to-day contentment. Example. If you go into a test fully expecting to get an 'A', and you get a 'B', it's a disappointment. If you go into the same test expecting to get a 'C', and you get that same 'B', you did better than you expected and you'll feel much about better...

Read More

Life Tips: College

I'm the kind of guy that think he has everything figured out all the time. Nobody has ever shown me concrete evidence that I don't have everything figured out, so I'm just going to keep chugging along until that happens. My guess is that it's not going to happen by the time I can finish typing this blog post, so here's some college tips for you higher level education-ees out there. Honestly my biggest beef with how college kids go about their business...

Read More

Freedom From Baseball

So I've been doing this blogging thing for a few years now. If we were going to put a number to it we would pick the number four and a half. Fifty-four months of blogging for me has led to 1,766 posts... and they've all been about baseball, namely the Pittsburgh Pirates. I certainly don't regret any of those posts, because they collectively have placed me in a pretty good spot as I plan the rest of my life out. There's still a lot of work left to...

Read More