Hackneyed

  • I’ve noticed something.

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    On any site where you can ask questions and crowdsource answers (this extends to social media), people will respond regardless of whether or not they have anything to offer. Even if they are wrong. It seems people just want to converse. Don’t ask questions on the Internet. Look for answers, or people you trust that…

  • June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018

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    Bourdain was a hero to me. Today is a reminder. To travel more. To eat more good food. To have more sex. To really listen to others. To try my best to never lose hope.

  • Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

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    Be kind. Always. – Kate Spade. Rest in peace.

  • Rules for a Knight

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    Just finished Ethan Hawke’s epistolary novel written as a letter from a knight going into battle, to their children, imparting knowledge and what they assume will be their last words. The book is brief and contains simple, effective language and great advice, mostly collected from various sources (credited at the end). A few rules that…

  • Dice

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    I learned this game at a bicycle shop in Brooklyn that had a liquor license. Supposedly they had great brunch as well. It requires at least three dice. Can be five but three goes quick. Each player antes one dollar into the pot and they then take it in turn throwing the dice. The object…

  • Ugly Delicious

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    I chose the wrong career path. As an outsider that is still obsessed with good food (read: I have an unrefined palette), it’s speaking my language. Bourdain is my hero, but he’s far more who I want to be than who I am. From the New York Times: David Chang and his new Netflix series,…

  • Lectores

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    Since 1865, lectores in Cuban factories have read to the workers while they roll cigars. They read the news, novels, horoscopes, and recipes. While essentially performing in-house broadcasts, the lectores have been their informal teachers. “Far from being laborers starved of culture, cigar rollers had the opportunity to examine new ideas, remain informed, and gain perspective…

  • Principles & Values

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    Friends of mine own a pair of remarkable BBQ restaurants. The food is great. They are great. Their principles and values are worth a read. Many (all?) can be adapted not only to any business, but life in general: Be the best restaurant we can be, not just the best BBQ restaurant. Produce the highest quality…

  • If you ever find yourself in Harlem on a Sunday afternoon…

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    …stop by Marjorie Eliot’s. 555 Edgecombe Avenue, Apartment 3-F.

  • Milos Forman has passed.

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    He was 86. In my formative years I often felt like an outsider and Forman’s best films – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Hair and Amadeus– sang to my rebellious heart.

  • Site Update

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    Not sure what I am doing here. But I I like that. Feel like this is an attempt to put all the pieces together, even if I don’t know what it is I am building. If that makes me Winston with a puzzle, so be it.

  • Two Opinions Concerning Miley Cyrus:

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    1. I am not really a fan of her music. 2. I am absolutely a fan of her “Backyards Sessions.” She has great taste in music. “Love What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma,” “So Happy Together,” “Different,” “True Trans Soul Rebel,” “Androgynous” and “Don’t Dream It’s Over” are all worth a listen. Whomever is…

  • “No, it’s the children who are wrong.”

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    Don’t know exactly how I feel about Apu in 2018. But I think the conversation deserves more than a troll/PR stunt response. I wonder if Al Jean or Matt Groening understand that part of the problem with Apu is that his name is used as an insult. My best friend is Indian. I’ve seen it firsthand.…

  • Tired of not doing the things I want to do.

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    That includes being tired of missing the things I used to do. In the past year or so I’ve built and discarded about five or six skateboards online. I finally pulled the trigger. Mark Gonzales deck, Spitfire wheels, Independent trucks. Life is too short to be missing out. To fear other’s perceptions. If you get any…

  • On Reading

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    Still deleting/sorting old bookmarks. Found several related to reading. Which is something I need to do more of.  One day I’ll read books and not just buy them.  Farnam Street recommends trying to get through 25 pages per day. They see this as a clear path to completing works that might otherwise seem daunting: Then I thought…

  • “I loved without memory.”

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    Masha Ivashintsova was born in Russia in 1942. When the Leningrad native passed away in 2000, they left behind over 30,000 photographs that had never been seen by anyone. As Ivashintsova’s daughter explains: My mother, Masha Ivashintsova, was heavily engaged in the Leningrad poetic and photography underground movement of the 1960−80s. She was a lover of three geniuses of the time:…

  • “Sooner or later…

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    your legs give way, you hit the ground. Sooner or later, you hit the deck, you get found out. Save it for later, don’t run away and let me down.”

  • Unsolicited Advice

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    Been slowly making my way through old bookmarks. Here’s a good one: John Perry Barlow’s list of twenty-five principles of adult behavior. From the recently deceased Silicon visionary/occasional Grateful Dead lyricist’s mouth: “I don’t expect the perfect attainment of these principles. However, I post them as a standard for my conduct as an adult. Should…

  • Darren Brown: The Push

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    Trying to figure out how to never have to agree to anything ever again. Afraid getting dinner with someone is only a few steps away from committing a crime.

  • In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

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    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”