Guys at the gym who blow-dry their ass . . .
Burn it Down
I have waited all my adult life for an election in which voters have the fire to reach up and burn those who have been running the show for decades. But I didn’t know it would come from the right and center.
If the plan of those in power is to raise a ton of cash and run nasty TV ads saying you can’t vote for this new person, that he or she is flawed — I expect the voter will say, “Are you telling me I have no choice but to vote for you? Are you saying that I, this little voter out there, dare not take a chance on someone who has not yet let me down as you have? If that is what you’re telling me, that I have no choice, well, Mr. Big Stuff, you just have to wait — stay up late election night and see what I have done.”
Twitter: 2010-09-18
- USC earns top polls among “College Bests” | Daily Trojan http://goo.gl/cAAV #
- The only limits are, as always, those of vision. — James Broughton #
What You Might Be
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you.
This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Twitter: 2010-09-17
- RT @SteveMartinToGo: OMG. President Lincoln has been shot! Wait, whoa, my internet connection is SUH-LOW. #
Twitter: 2010-09-16
- RT @serafinowicz: Tea = Gay Coffee #
- Amplifying Collaboration with Guerilla Facilitation http://t.co/ZJNXzVz #
- RT @eddiepepitone: This new car better be the answer to all my sorrows and regrets. #
Woody Allen
Q. How do you feel about the aging process?
A. Well, I’m against it. [laughs] I think it has nothing to recommend it. You don’t gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you’d trade all of that for being 35 again. I’ve experienced that thing where you wake up in the middle of the night and you start to think about your own mortality and envision it, and it gives you a little shiver. That’s what happens to Anthony Hopkins at the beginning of the movie, and from then on in, he did not want to hear from his more realistic wife, “Oh, you can’t keep doing that — you’re not young anymore.” Yes, she’s right, but nobody wants to hear that.
Don’t Be Afraid
Last night I had a dream that I was dying. It was very peaceful. Nothing to be afraid of . . .
Twitter: 2010-09-15
- Affirmation of the day: This job could have been done worse. #
Other Than That . . .
The social fabric is fraying. Human capital is being squandered. Society is segmenting. The labor markets are ill. Wages are lagging. Inequality is increasing. The nation is overconsuming and underinnovating. China and India are surging.
Point taken. But other than that, things are going okay, right?
Twitter: 2010-09-14
- RT @NikkiGlaser: Is he some rapper I’ve never heard of? // RT @KimKardashian Jet lag is hitting me hard #
Design Milk
I recently added Design Milk to my RSS reader because I feel like innovative design ideas from other fields help train my brain to challenge assumptions . . .
Kevin McCarthy, 1914-2010
Kevin McCarthy, the suave, square-jawed actor who earned accolades in stage and screen productions of “Death of a Salesman” but will always be best known as the star of the 1956 science fiction movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died Saturday at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass. He was 96 and lived in Sherman Oaks Calif.
Shocking news — not that he died, but that he was still alive at the age of 96.
Twitter: 2010-09-12
- RT @NikkiGlaser: Tell me I'm not the only one who has to get drunk to look at my checking account. #
- RT @eddiepepitone: Capitalism's last ad- "Since the nuclear devastation we are slashing prices! Everything Must Go!" #
Twitter: 2010-09-11
- RT @kausmickey: Once again troubled by possibility that LA Times might not collapse & vanish quickly enough to enable vibrant civic culture. #
- Overheard: "Therein lies the rub." #
Hard Knocks
— And that concludes my presentation.
— It all sounds a bit “academic” to me.
— It would be if the School of Hard Knocks were a fully accredited institution of learning.
You Don’t Say
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and hawing on that.
Twitter: 2010-09-10
- RT @joshcomers: “Who’s ready to rock?” (funniest geologist on expedition). #
More People I’m Sick Unto Death Of
Anyone who REALLY likes one or more of the following:
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Tom Clancy
- Golf
- The Big Lebowski
- Beer (bonus points if you call it “brew”)
- Las Vegas
- Boating
- KISS
- Skiing
- Frank Zappa (bonus points if you just say “Zappa”)
- Their own abs
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Mitch Albom
- Maya Angelou
Twitter: 2010-09-09
- RT @fakerahmemanuel: Why leave the White House to be mayor of Chicago? The same reason that guy from White Star got the fuck off Titanic. #
