by snarly | Jun 24, 2015 | Other Apologies
Under One Small Star My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all.Please, don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.My apologies to time for all the...
by snarly | Jun 23, 2015 | Other Apologies
Interesting piece on Lifehacker (Gawker’s site about “living better in the digital age”) about Christian counselors Gary Chapman and Jennifer M. Thomas’s “5 Apology Languages.” It’s a sequel to Chapman’s popular 5 Love...
by snarly | Jun 5, 2015 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
There are times to apologize. And there are times not to apologize. In this video which we are sadly forbidden to embed, comedian Amy Schumer offers a look at gendered, excessively self-negating, unnecessary, reflexive ladypologies. Given that research indicates that...
by snarly | May 27, 2015 | Bropology, Celebrity Apologies, Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
When Equinox does it, it’s douchey. When Chris Pratt does it, it is adorable! What is it? Pre-Apology! Pratt is funny (this scene of him as Andy on Parks and Rec, acting out the movie Roadhouse when the cable feed doesn’t work, is all improv, or so my...
by snarly | May 19, 2015 | Corporate Apologies
There have been a lot of quease-inducingly bad apologies lately. (We’ve shared a bunch on our Facebook page that we didn’t address here.) As a palate-cleanser, let’s look at a couple of good ones. We still don’t know exactly what happened in...