July 2009
12 posts
You Didn't Know They Died
We’re just past the half-way point of 2009 and it has already been known as The Year Celebrity Deaths. So far there have been a bunch of notables:
Ricardo Montalbon, Paul Harvey, Ron Silver, Natasha Richardson, Bea Arthur, Dom Deluise, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Walter Cronkite, among others.
But here are some notable people that died...
Know Yourself
“I get home from the airport, stuff some food in my mouth, and take a nap before jiu jitsu class. There’s something extra special about doing a jiu jitsu class when you’re tired and jetlagged. It forces you to control your breathing and teaches you to relax and conserve your energy.
“I’ve gone to class sometimes after a brutal kettle bell work out, and it’s a moral victory just to...
15 Books Meme
“Not the best 15 books you’ve ever read, or even the ones you’d recommend to others. Just 15 books that have made their mark on you and will always be with you, for whatever reason. Supposed to be done in 15 minutes.”
Here’s mine (off the top of my head):
Memories, Dreams Reflections by Carl Jung
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
...
“When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,
How poetical it would be...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Tumblarity has given me a new appreciation for the...
(via trapezemusic)
Mowing the same acre of grass since I was a teenager gives me an old (and very real) appreciation of Sisyphus.
Pot and Kettle
Watch how I do this:
The United States army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of insurgents, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.
All I did was substitute “United States” for “Mexican” and “insurgents” for “drug traffickers.”
Here is the original from the Washington...
trapezemusic:
A tiny little bitch: I dislike my naivety. I was dull enough to believe only Tumblr had a problem with people refusing to attribute the images they find to their points of origin. But searching through money art today, I discovered the problem is pervasive across the Web. I’m finding sites that are nothing more than endlessly scrolling albums of pictures. No commentary of any sort....
