November 2010
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Nov 29th
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WatchWatch
This video segment features my friend and training partner, Rudy Reyes. Rudy is a highly-decorated former Force Recon Marine and played himself in David Simon’s Generation Kill. He is currently putting his life back together after multiple tours of duty. Anyone that’s known me for any length of time, knows that I lionize the work of Jonathan Shay—the psychologist who originally...
Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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“The rest of the trip settles into a fairly routine pattern, if by “fairly...”
– Kanye West Project Runway
Nov 26th
“I still remember having three wisdom teeth extracted in high school. I had...”
– Paul Hoffman If most dentists behaved this way, I would like going to the dentist.
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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Nov 14th
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“A surprising number of people retain from childhood the idea that there is a...”
– Paul Graham, How to Make Wealth
Nov 14th
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My Nostalgia is Better Than Your Nostalgia
Why is nostalgia so potent? If you’re running around taking pictures with a Holga and I’m running around snapping photos with Instagram on my iPhone, is your nostalgia the high brow to my low brow? No. We’re both suckers in the same way, thinking that somehow this aesthetic that’s conjuring resonance with the past will help us in our search for a lost meaningfulness. So...
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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“Yesterday, it was reported that eighty-four-year-old actor Dick Van Dyke had...”
– Susan Orlean, The New Yorker
Nov 13th
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“I am bringing back the action Western. The cowboy picture has got lost in...”
– Sergio Leone via smut-to-go
Nov 12th
“Since Facebook is trying to take over email as well, I might as well add you to...”
– Facebook friend request from my friend, Sean Levin, one of the last hold outs.
Nov 12th
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We've Already Had a Gay President: Abraham Lincoln →
Andrew Sullivan
Nov 11th
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“Curating your online web presence is just a gateway drug. Trust me, it will...”
– Hugo Liu (of Hunch), Curation as Metaphor to Live By
Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
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“Even the goofiest avant-garde agenda, if it’s got integrity, is never, “Let’s...”
– David Foster Wallace
Nov 8th
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“Irony’s useful for debunking illusions, but most of the illusion-debunking in...”
– David Foster Wallace in an interview with Larry McCaffery
Nov 5th
Nov 5th
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“The Internet is creating markets that enable us to own much less. The winner of...”
– Wired, Abandon Ownership! Join the Rentership Society!
Nov 3rd
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“That problem being that gamification isn’t gamification at all. What we’re...”
– Margaret Robertson - Can’t Play, Won’t Play via slavin
Nov 3rd
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JFK: Made Men, Politics & Media
Election day is a suitable one to disclose that I’ve been obsessed with The Dark Side of Camelot by Sy Hersh for several months. It’s the tale of the rise of JFK, the dark dealings of his father, and how the mob clinched the presidential election for the Kennedy family. More importantly, it’s a book that made me feel naive. Naiveté is something I experience sometimes, but in...
Nov 2nd