How do we manage to put out a fairly reliable column every week that the spudWorks reader can expect to find at least vaguely interesting. The answer is, when you're dealing with a multi-billion dollar corporation like ours, simple. They scour pop culture sources in search of things to laugh at and make fun of, like kids in the school yard, but this time the joke isn't you, it's everyone. After starting up his computer, drinking a pot of blackened coffee, and reading The New York Times as well as a sneak peak on Salon's Sex area he begins to scour the local media for what might be popular today in our disposable culture. While trading email with a friend, he realizes that it is almost 1 and could really use something to eat besides the hours old donuts that reside next to the coffee machine.
Lunch frequently takes a solid hour.
Around 4, he and a few other spudWorks writers head out to the bar around the corner for a break where most of the rest of the evening is spent. This formula is repeated everyday. On Sunday morning, through a drunken haze, our writer remembers that he has missed his Wednesday deadline to submit a column. He writes it quickly and submits it to his editor who he must wake from his own alcohol-induced dementia to edit it. On Monday, when the user reads the latest column, the writers breathe a sigh of relief and continue the spiraling path down to where ever such a path leads.