Jeff’s day job as an audiobook narrator often finds him searching the internet for the pronunciation of some insane word or name. What do you do, though, when you still can’t pronounce the word, even after having it laid out for you phonetically? Jeff kept his most embarrassing outtakes.

Hoytus Interruptus – Step Off Onto The Rocks

August 31st, 2017 - Posted in

Not one to get too terribly esoteric, Jeff found some metaphorical enlightenment during a recent walk along Quartermaster Harbor.

Jeff tells the story of the day he and Cindy bought a bag of ice cubes that went to great lengths to make sure we knew we had bought the most magnificent ice cube the world had ever known.

It was the best of flights. It was the worst of flights. Jeff, not one to actively seek out in-flight conversation with the person sitting next to him on a plane, had two experiences this week in which he and his seat mate talked non-stop throughout. One was a fascinating, fun conversation that made the […]

Hoytus Interruptus – Post Game Interview

March 23rd, 2017 - Posted in

What if a sports reporter took all of the banal cliches that athletes dole out literally? It would sound something like this.

  Sometimes when working from home, it becomes difficult to maintain one’s professional credibility in the face of what life can throw at you at any moment.

Hoytus Interruptus – Moose Abuse

March 9th, 2017 - Posted in

  It’s been 20 years, but the memory is still fresh. Once upon a time, in order to score sweet box seats to a Mariners game for his family, Jeff accepted a job to serve as a human drum kit for the Mariner Moose. It’s a humiliation that apparently has just a two-decade shelf life, […]

  Jeff observes the three-year anniversary of the meteor that exploded over Russia by speculating on what we’d do as a species if actually faced with an incoming space rock of “extinction event” proportions.

Hoytus Interruptus – Alternative Facts

February 17th, 2017 - Posted in

When Jeff was 12, his grandmother took him to a movie that blew his little pre-teen mind. It featured risque language, scantily-clad women, and an early (and inadvertent) introduction to the political climate in which we now find ourselves.  

Hoytus Interruptus – Rowing

February 10th, 2017 - Posted in

Rowing has been my sport of choice for 16 years now. When I first started, I was fascinated by the language and terminology of rowing. I couldn’t help noticing that a well-called race by an aggressive coxswain comes off sounding like either a rowing race or wild sex. This led to the Vashon Island Rowing […]