December 2011
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I just left Facebook. Again.
[ I start negative and cynical, but I go somewhere positive.]
I don’t care that you just got a pedicure.
I don’t care that you and three other friends I’ve never met are about to have a night on the town.
I don’t care what political candidate you have been led to support through your shallow, uninformed, and impetuous selection process.
I don’t care that you just...
10 of The Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever... →
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Someone just told me I’m more attractive that Don Draper. Is this real life? More to the point, should I be filing blasphemy charges?
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WOD
Row 2.5K 50 Pull-ups 50 Back extensions 200ft ladder climb 30 toes-to-bar
And some other random stuff.
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I don’t want to be the best lover you’ve ever had, I just want to be...
– Derrick Brown, Hot for Sorrow
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Let's get some interactivity going here. Ask me... →
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture.
Deliver me from clever art…...
– Chuck Palahniuk
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All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again....
– Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
Thinking of a new blog title from this. “Fail Better” instead of “Conspicuously Discreet.” What do you think?
Update: I changed it.
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With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...
– Al Franken (via azspot)
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I got a lot of emails from people saying, ‘Why can’t you just keep it clean?...
– Louis CK on emails from people who have seen some of his clean stand-up [full interview here] (via nprfreshair)
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To be honest,
Facebook “evangelism” gets under my skin.
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Ah, Fox News, just can it. You sound like bratty children who don’t have anything real to tattle about.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s...
– (via journalofanobody)
And this is the audience’s fault, and this is the artists’ fault. The former needs to rethink values in an ever materialistic world, and the latter needs to make an effort to be less dadgum esoteric.
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andiegee123 asked: Do you believe in second chances?
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The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum →
Chewing without eating seems like such a ridiculous habit, the oral equivalent of running on a treadmill. And yet, people have been chewing gum for thousands of years, ever since the ancient Greeks began popping wads of mastic tree resin in their mouth to sweeten the breath. Socrates probably chewed gum.
It turns out there’s an excellent rationale for this long-standing cultural habit: Gum is...