John Agliata – Johnny Boy Marketing

🧩 Today’s Puzzle Pieces 🧩
Failure🎶
Nuggie Time🗞️
Humpty Assumption🥚

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Three Things I Am Grateful For Today:

1. Falling back to sleep after being up for an hour in the middle of the night.
2. Surgeons.
3. Sturgeons.

Pursuit of Wordle Godhood: Today’s result: Four. I’ll take it.

Wordle 1,221 4/6

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Pursuit of Connections Godhood: Today’s result: Six. To be fair, both my wrong answers were technically right.

Connections
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The song in my head when I woke up today: Failure, by Breaking Benjamin

• Oct. 21: Colder Weather, by Zac Brown Band
• Oct. 20: Just The Way You Are, by Bruno Mars
• Oct. 18: The Breaking Benjamin theme continues. Today’s? Red Cold River
• Oct. 17: Evil Angel, by Breaking Benjamin (are you seeing a trend here????)
• Oct. 16: Without You, Breaking Benjamin
• Oct. 15: Everlong, by Foo Fighters (acoustic version)
• Oct. 14: Dear Agony, by Breaking Benjamin
• Oct. 13: Crawl, by Breaking Benjamin
• Oct. 12: Failure, by Breaking Benjamin
• Oct. 11: It Not Over, by Daughtry
• Oct. 10: Outside, by Staind
• Oct. 9: These Dreams, by Heart
• Oct. 8: Complicated, by Avril Lavigne
• Oct. 7: Complicated, by Avril Lavigne
• Oct. 5: Slide, by Goo Goo Dolls
• Oct 4: Evil Angel, by Breaking Benjamin
• Oct. 3: Right Here, by Staind
• Oct. 2: So Far Away, by Staind
• Oct. 1: I Will Follow You Into The Dark, by Death Cab For Cutie

Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go/Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down/Failure

Commute Tunes: My drive to the office this morning was done to my Rap Attack playlist. Because what rich white suburban kid who grew up in the ’80s doesn’t love old-school gangsta rap?

• Gin and Juice, Snoop Dogg
• Bust A Move, Young MC
• How I Could Just Kill A Man, Cypress Hill
• Godzilla, Eminem
• Posse in Effect, Beastie Boys
• Tequila Sunrise, Cypress Hill
• Egg Man, Beastie Boys
• By The Time I Get To Arizona, Public Enemy

Something I’m looking forward to today: My appointment with my soon-to-be (hopefully) neck surgeon.

Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: My yearly solo writing retreat. Going off into the wilderness to re-center, edit some stories and write some more. Will I return? Maybe.

Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Turning a long to-do list into a small to-do list.

What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved writing a draft for a Johnny Boy Marketing client about a guy who is a mechanical engineer for Rivian.

What I’ve written: Your morning News Nuggies have arrived! Today we’re talking about the rudest cities, underwater cars, the snake-hunt champion, and the things we leave behind in our luggage. Oh, and we also give you the ultimate art item with which to decorate your new home. Open up and say “Ahhhh want News Nuggies right now!”

From a casual read of Humpty Dumpty, why do we assume dude was an egg?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again

Humpty Dumpty sat on the ground
Humpty Dumpty looked all around
Gone were the chimneys, gone were the roofs
All he could see were ankles and hooves

Poor old Humpty
Poor old Humpty
Poor old Humpty
Dumpty

Poor old Humpty
Poor old Humpty
Poor old Humpty
Poor old Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty counted to ten
Humpty Dumpty built up again
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Are happy that Humpty is together again

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