2015
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Ask Jack: Baseball’s Mark DeRosa on Career Change
Kind of a change of pace for this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs column: Baseball veteran Mark DeRosa discusses his new career as a co-host of MLB Network’s new morning show, MLB Central. Born in Passaic and a graduate of Bergen Catholic, another Jersey boy makes good! And here at Salt in Wound HQ, […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 4/7/15
EPISODE #175: BREAD (PASSOVER 2015) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Joy Division — “Passover” Jonny — “Bread” The Felice Brothers — “Take This Bread” King Khan & his Shrines — “Welfare Bread” Ceramic Dog — “Bread and Roses” Bitch Magnet — “White Piece of Bread” Slint — “Breadcrumb Trail” Louis Jordan — “Beans and […]
Touring the Stevens Family Legacy
On Saturday, I took a three-hour bus tour of historic sites in Hoboken connected to the Stevens family. For hMAG.com, I wrote about what I saw and took some photos.
Rejected Lipstick Colors
• “Still Infected” • “Moonlight in Saginaw” • “ISIS Ice” • “Forbidden Biden” • “Under-Table Bubblegum” • “Room-Temperature Pink” • “Excessive Chapstick” • “Redd Foxx Foxy Red” • “Very Berry Botox” • “Manischewitz Chartreuse”
Ask Jack: American Dream, Personal E-mail, and Job of the Week
In this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs advice column: the fallacy of the American Dream. Plus, what information would you be willing to hand over in order to get a promotion?
My Internet Radio Playlist, 3/31/15
EPISODE #174: APRIL FOOLS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Rufus Wainwright — “April Fools” Ricky Nelson — “Poor Little Fool” Elvis Presley — “(Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such As I” Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers — “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” The Beatles — “The Fool on the Hill” Grant McLennan […]
A Bounty of Books
In this week’s West New York Reporter, I have an article about a newly-opened used bookstore, B&F Books. Nice young fella running the place; I wish him the best of luck!
Ask Jack: Work for Free, Office Birthdays, and Job of the Week
In this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs advice column: Would you work for free for the possibility of being hired full-time? Would you do it for four months? Plus, life imitating Seinfeld, as we delved into the scourge of non-stop birthday parties.
Ask Jack: Admit to Therapy, Swamped Post-Vacay, Job of the Week
In this week’s installment of my AOL Jobs advice column: Should you talk about your therapy and meds around the office? (Can it come back to bite you?) Plus, is it possible to return from vacation without an enormous pile of work?
Jack Silbert, curator