April 2008
19 posts
The Grand Illusion →
The guy who invented the 4-Hour Work Week [he advises outsourcing everything…or something like that] posted a blog that basically said he’d been hiring people to write his personal blog for months. Readers freaked out. April fools.
March 2008
26 posts
"It costs nothing to be honest, loyal, and true."
Things I want to remember about the Avett Brothers show tonight: 1. The greatness of singing along with songs I love. My introduction to the Avetts was at a live show in Santa Cruz last summer. I didn’t know any of the songs, but I knew they were something special. I gobbled up all the Avett I could. Now, I know and love the songs, so round two was even better than the first time. 2. ...
workgrrs: Stop going into the sandbox. I have to watch to make sure you don’t go in and it breaks my concentration. This means you.
“This is about us all. Every one of us. Who all seem to know deep down that...”
– John Mayer’s newest blog entry. This is why I’m a fan. Not Your Body is a Wonderland.
A Story Two Sentences Long.
johnnyrichardson: You know, sometimes the best stories have very little that are actually told to us. Much of the story becomes understood, imagined, reimagined, figured out, felt. This can be either in the way the story that we are told ends: in that we can continue the narrative ourselves, how we want, with our own interpretations. Or this can be in understanding the backstory: the way we...
This American Live. →
Probably shouldn’t miss this. [Interesting note: one LA show, one SF show, THREE San Jose shows.]
I was thinking about what to put in my first...
Ask Goog.
I wish I had a Google search for real life. Lost remote; Google it. WTF are my keys? Google has three hits – coat pocket, couch cushion, desk drawer. The text ads are showing me ads for locksmiths and key duplicators and pizza delivery. There’s always two or three relevant ones to your search and one or two random picks. Its probably still in beta, like everything Google does. I think...
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First Death Cab single from Narrow Stairs. At...
fireworks.
A few things I want to remember about the Explosions in the Sky show tonight: 1. I always feel really connected to the rest of the crowd at an Explosions show. I like to think that everyone there really appreciates beautiful music and the power of amazing music. 2. They are one of the loudest bands I have ever seen live. The energy they pour into their crecendos is unbelievable. 3. The last...
“Art slips past our brains straight into our bellies. It
weaves itself into our...”
– Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines
“That’s what makes movement more interesting than staying in place: Road Trips...”
– The Believer - On the Road
speed demonized.
Last Wednesday I drove from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City via I-80. Google Maps says its about an 8 hour and 26 minute drive. It took me about 12. And I’ll tell you why. I kept seeing signs that said, “When lights are flashing, highway is closed.” And the following thought process ran through my head. How comfortable should I feel that there is a permanent sign that...
