Derek Coward’s Noise
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The Real October Surprise: Hubris and Short-Term Thinking
A lot of people have been expecting a Republican October Surprise, supposedly that time right before the General Election where the Republican Party goes into their bag of dirty tricks and pull out something that will severely damage the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The only October surprise that I am seeing is coming from…
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I need some Steve McQueen help
I was on the 11 O’Clock Comics forum in the political talk thread. Patti was sitting next to me looking at the screen. She looked at the screen and saw this avatar for one of the other posters: This is the conversation that followed: Patti: Who’s that guy? Me: What guy? Patti (pointing to the…
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As If I Needed An Excuse
A few weeks ago I was picking Stephen up from school. He’s in the morning kindergarten class and has to be picked up by 11:55 or else I catch hell for it. Not by his mother or the school, but by him. The kid is a little too smart for my own good. Anyway, I…
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The Bad Mouth
I’m still looking for a job, but something really weird is happening. Someone will get a copy of my resume. I am posted on Monster.com, Michigan Talent Bank and I have been sending it out at least twenty times a week to various job listings that I see. I have been getting a pretty good…
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Changing Eating Habits
I think I made a mistake by letting Patti know that I am trying to change my eating habits. Whenever I tell her that I am trying to eat healthier, it seems like she goes out of her way to shove the sickest most fat laden delicious pieces of garbage in front of me. I’m…
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Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday
I have an account over at blip.fm, which has been described as Twitter for music. I like it, but then again I like most music services that introduce me to music that other people like and not necessarily the music that some program director somewhere likes or some company in cahoots with the music industry…
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Top Search Query terms
Here are some of the top Search Query terms according to Google Webmaster tools for some of the show websites in the Deliberate Noise Network: Noiseboxx.com – mouth cancer BoxxOnline – toxic virgin Comic Book Noise – i want to write my name in water Deliberate Noise – arm amputee DerekCoward.com – i was morriseys…
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Good News On The Horizon?
As you may remember, I am unemployed. The afternoon of the day I was laid off, gas prices started their recent decline. Being the self-centrist that I am, I have decided that the decline is due to the fact that I have nowhere to go that will use up copious amounts of gasoline (like a…
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How Do We Know That The World Wasn’t Destroyed?
The Large Hadron Collider is a particle smashing machine that is supposed to help scientists understand (or be able to prove) the so-called "Big Bang Theory", which in turn "could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins". That’s the upside. A lot of critics of the project thought that the…
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The first of many hard days
Stephen’s first day of kindergarten and first day riding the bus with his sister. I want to warn him that the world is a cruel place for someone like him. He is handsome at five years old. Not just cute, but handsome. He is smart. At the Open House at his school, the other parents…