March 2011
58 posts
“There are those who say, cynically, if this is the dim-witted freak show the Republicans want to present in 2012, so be it. I disagree. One of them could get elected.”
—American Embarrassment - Swampland - TIME.com
There are roughly five New Yorks →
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Fifth, there is the New York of the man or woman who looks at the city each day as a miracle. Looks at it each day as a thing we’re getting for free, something that shouldn’t be, something that might not. But is. It’s here. And we get to be in it. Get in it. Be down in it, blotting out the mess, the light, the heat, the delays, and get the surprises. Sweeping up the past, running with strangers, ducking the fairs, in silence together. Fifth, is she who sees the magic that is the city, knowing that it never should work, really. But then it does. And she chooses it as her home.
That’s rather lovely.
A childbirth cheat sheet for dads-to-be | BabyCenter →
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Filed for future reference.
“Look, why not just say that you recognize it’s not for you, because you love open source more than air, but allow that other people might like it? While it’s not the Macalope’s cup of tea, he can see why other people use Linux. And not just because they’re anti-government nuts with tremendous neck beards who have difficulty interacting with other people, so they tend to have to support their own hardware and software.”
—The Macalope Weekly: The Noyes machine | Tablets | MacUser | Macworld
“Vision and capabilities are important, but so is tenacity: great entrepreneurial teams build fast, build beautiful, launch and iterate.”
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Jon Callaghan on Why True Invested in Yobongo (via hiten)
I say this all the time, (and look at me, of course I’m biased): True gets it.
Kickstarter - Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression →
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Just donated to my friend Julien’s Kickstarter - I’m really hoping they make their funding level!
COLOR.XXX PITCH DECK!! →
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Hysterical, in a bad way.
SF Teens Thought They Heard A Ghost, But It Was Just A Guy Jacking Off In Their House: News: SFAppeal →
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“Brown was arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct, burglary, and possession of marijuana, according to Dangerfield.”
This, among a thousand other reasons that crop up daily, is why we will never need to sell t-shirts or bumper-stickers that say “Keep SF Weird”.
Honestly, if a city’s gotta do that, it was never that weird to begin with.
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It boils down to this: Are whites losing interest in a game in which the number of white American players not only continues to dwindle, but no longer features a superstar?
Yes.
NBA All-Star Game: White Men Can’t Root - The Daily Beast
I wouldn’t have bothered to read this, but the author wrote Friday Night Lights and has a couple of Pulitzers. Does sports writing have a third rail? Because this is it.
“Only Rebecca Black is not cruising. She is manifestly standing still, with not even a wind machine to help sell the con. This, the viewer cringingly notes, is not freedom but freedom’s cheap simulation, not the speeding liberty of earlier generations but a gross, benumbed mockery of it—the individual has collapsed, and language with him.”
—Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black’s “Friday” As Radical Text | The Awl
The Mavenist: I think you should do your job. I think a lot of people don’t do their... →
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I think you should do your job. I think a lot of people don’t do their job, because they don’t like their job. I don’t get that. You know, if you go to a coffee place, and the kid looks at you like, “Uh.” I didn’t come to your house to ask you for coffee. This is a coffee place. Your clothes match…
“You’re closer to the coffee machine.”
I love this so much.
“It was surreal,” he recalls. “Here I was dealing with matters of international security, and I was half-baked. I didn’t know anything about the situation in that part of the world. But I was a central player in the Afghan war — and if our delivery didn’t make it to Kabul, the entire strategy of building up the Afghanistan army was going to fail. It was totally killing my buzz. There were all these shadowy forces, and I didn’t know what their motives were. But I had to get my shit together and put my best arms-dealer face on.”
—The Stoner Arms Dealers | Rolling Stone Politics
“It’s at the point where when the phone does ring — and it’s not my mom, dad, husband or baby sitter — my first thought is: “What’s happened? What’s wrong?” My second thought is: “Isn’t it weird to just call like that? Out of the blue? With no e-mailed warning?”
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Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - NYTimes.com
If you and I are not either related by blood, raising a child or running a startup together, do not call me unless something is on fire.*
* Exceptions granted when the thing that is maybe on fire is our friendship because I don’t ever return your voicemails.
“he followed the sun & she followed the stars & in dreams they listened closely for the beginning of all things, for that was where they knew they’d find each other.”
Brian Andreas
Beautiful.
