MISTER FADED GLORY
I'm a writer and marketing pro based in KC. Welcome to the recap of life: Books, TV, ads, business, marketing, grunge music, sports, and more. Focus never has been my strong suit.
Watch for my first novel, These Monks, a comedy about friendship, frustration, and Des Moines, later this year.
Email me: jjh(at)misterfadedglory.com.
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Category Archives: Myself
A storm and a cat
Our company’s conference rooms are fairly chic, quite honestly, and as I sat through a semi-important meeting, I watched the sky darken through the full-length windows. Periwinkle and gray rolling into an eerie steel blue, daylight suddenly becoming a bizarre … Continue reading →
The battle of John’s yard
Well, I’ve done it. It’s a melancholy day, but I’ve done it. I have finally given up. I am finally admitting defeat. As you may or may not know, for two years, after buying my first home – replete with … Continue reading →
Happily a Hawkeye
Perhaps I’m a serial narcissist, or perhaps I’m totally insecure, but I continually strive to paint my Midwestern background and upbringing as vastly different than my Kansas peers. It may seem strange, true, that after five years I still combat … Continue reading →
Big, outlandish news.
I’m retiring from my blog. Wait, that was my April Fool’s joke! Where are you going? Come back!
And you say you want a resolution?
Though an all-Big East Final Four may either be too picturesque to disturb (or too disastrous); two unlucky teams will head home on Saturday, April 4. They will be Syracuse and UConn, and we’ll consider the Orange the third-place NCAA … Continue reading →
Is someone in the house, oh my god, oh my god?
Rest assured, the last time Syracuse went on a decent tourney run (winning it all in 2003), I missed nearly every tournament pick, consciously trying not to jinx myself. In 2005, after a Big East championship, the underperforming Cuse underperformed … Continue reading →
Pittsburgh vs. Villanova … a question answered.
I consider the East the best bracket in term of quality. Everyone (improbably) sleeps on Duke. Villanova faces a potential 6-11 land mine across from UCLA and Virginia Commonwealth. Supposedly Florida State is a red-hot team. (Although, if you watched … Continue reading →
Midwest is best?
Immediately lauded as the proverbial BEST REGION IN THE TOURNAMENT, Louisville’s bracket features a multitude of name teams, yet few who finished their conference tournament strongly, or inspire any confidence. As mentioned, I’m plagued by Cleveland State vs. Wake Forest, … Continue reading →
Fun to care about the NCAAs again. Well, more so.
We’re all tournament, all the time this week. Though it’s doubtful that you visit this site for anything other than sports information, you may want to know ahead of time, if, say, you have an extreme distaste for Orange homerism. … Continue reading →
Wheel time training update
As few of you know (though even fewer of you care), I’m currently in training for future contestantship on Wheel of Fortune. In fact, as I’ve discovered through playing along with several DVR’d episodes, Wheel of Fortune is America’s Game. … Continue reading →
Weather Manned
Nobody remembers the 2005 movie The Weather Man. One of Nicolas Cage‘s best movies, featuring actual gravitas and emotion instead of ghosts or riders, the somewhat macabre flick actually nails the thirtysomething male mind, at least in part. In one … Continue reading →
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In Bloom
Oh, you’re wondering about the book? Still soliciting agents, batting about .500. That means, 50 percent outright rejections and 50 percent ignoring me altogether. Still, it doesn’t pay to be discouraged. The market is crying for a story weaving together … Continue reading →
The Living Daylights
So I woke up today nearly 10 full minutes before my alarm was scheduled to go off. Refreshed. Rejuvenated. Possibly the first time in decades I actually felt good on a Monday morning; nary a trace of hangover, malaise, or … Continue reading →
Instant Karma
No wonder I like Wings and Quantum Leap so much (and, to a much, much lesser extent – Quick Change and Necessary Roughness). Not only is today the official birthday of Mr. Faded Glory, but it’s also the birthdays of … Continue reading →
Symbolism: Greg Maddux
Tomorrow Mister Faded Glory turns 31. Not the blog, but John, its actual author. (The blog surprisingly has been around for more than five years. Stunning. Gaining readers, one at a time.) Probably surreptitious to suggest that at this point, … Continue reading →