Archive for 'Nickel and Diming'

Congratulations America, YOU’RE A DICK!

I’ve always had this carping feeling that America doesn’t like me much. A perfect example would be the time I landed in LAX a couple of weeks ago: After a monster 12-hour flight from Manila to Los Angeles–a flight that left me, surprisingly, tired, sleepless and high as a kite because of the tranquilizer tablets [...]

The Corporate Buzzword Extravaganza

If there’s anything else besides, of course, getting paid that people love to get from their jobs it has to be the feeling of being important. I’ve been out of college and working for six years now and, since then, have clawed my way up this tiny, comfortable spot in the corporate ladder. Anyway, through [...]

Ruined day: A dissection.

What does it take to ruin one’s day? Not much. Think about it. Come up to a coworker and tell her that she looks like she gained weight. Spit out a snide remark about how the food in a wedding you’re attending sucks and make sure either the bride or groom hears it. Tell a [...]

Three-Four. Twenty Seven.

Two days from now, I shall be celebrating my birthday. I will be turning twenty-seven years old. I view my 27th birthday as a pivotal point in my life primarily because it provides me with the crushing validation that I, Mike Villar, Rising Internet Star and Sex Man Child, am, without a doubt, in my [...]

Getting in the way of poop

I’ve been working in the office building I’m currently working in for almost three years now, and over that period of time, I have pretty much lifted the entire fog of war in the immediate neighborhood as far as restrooms I can comfortably take a crap in is concerned. So far, I have: The restroom [...]