January 2010
86 posts
“So fight it.
Defeat the resistance.
Keep your team small. Smaller than that....”
– Seth Godin: The Truth About Shipping :: Tips :: The 99 Percent (via robmizell)
Amen!
Whip It!
I just watched Whip It!. It reminded me:
1) That Drew Barrymore is really forgiving and really skinny. Once she was filming a movie outside my apartment at Southpaw, but I didn’t know it was her movie (I usually miss out on these details). The crew was clogging my morning commute, so as revenge I decided to deliberately walk through a conversation between two people, nearly knocking...
365 Songs in 365 Days: Day 25, A Study on the... →
My friend Wesley Verhoeve (aka Man with the Hair of Wilderness) runs Family Records and manages Wakey!Wakey! and Pearl and the Beard and helped Emily Hope Price write a song one night for a project she’s doing and she wrote about writing the song and the ensuing article is wicked fun (and highly enlightening!). Especially if you’re drinking coffee.
“To Make You Feel My Love (Dylan...
“I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by...”
– Howard Zinn, RIP. 1922-2010.
“Work hard and be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien. (via halphillips)
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taking care of your own
My alma mater UMass Dartmouth has a pretty hefty refugee and foreign student delegation and I have been worried about some of the Haitian kids I used to work with. I just got word that the administration tracked down several Haitian students who had gone home during the break and ended up stranded in slums etc, and secured their safe return. Good job UMD.
“What if funky, confusing, gray, lonely days were just part of a “system” that,...”
– The Universe (via dannielle)
This is really true. I’ve found that when I have my galloping black moods that if you have the discipline to find some neutral space or mechanically do something ordinary or pleasant even when you’re not feeling it, it will bring you somewhere neutral, and...
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“Don’t give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you stumble onto...”
– Ann Landers (via onherway) (via allisonweiss)
Randomly came across this ancient tumblr entry. Hey Allison, you’re old posts are badass.
why am I getting this?
From my inbox:
CALLING ALL GUIDOS AND GUIDETTES -
Don’t miss the Season Finale of the Jersey Shore, tomorrow night at Opal Bar & Restaurant!
Guys, perfect your blow outs and get ready to get your creep on.
Ladies, how about a summer romance in the middle of winter? Who knows, you may find your very own Ronnie!
FREE SHOTS IF YOU WEAR A PINK POLO OR ROCK A BLOWOUT!
Let’s get...
“If Back to the Future were made today (in 2010), Marty would have travelled back...”
– kottke (via thatisawesome)
History!
“Where I Stood” by Missy Higgins
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"I let out a cry, as if I'd heard everybody I... →
“Everybody I talk to says the same thing: time has stopped…Diaspora overloads the satellites.”
I have nothing to say.
“Don’t Stop Believing (Journey...
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only...”
– Willa Cather
I spent 8 hours bashing around Somerville and Cambridge with a bunch of dudes doing nothing in particular or important and yet somehow ended up with plans for a fun, substantive project which will probably hold my attention. And that excites me. Not much does these days. We also...
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“Going North” - Missy Higgins
Every...
“After interacting in a certain way, objects become mysteriously linked, or...”
– Oh nothing, just researching Quantum Entanglement (via allisonweiss)
oh hell yeah!
And on this topic of quantum this and that, try: The Intention Experiment (book is better than the site) The Power of Flow (ditto on book)
And Deepak Chopra’s straightforward article on SynchroDestiny,... 