Hackneyed

  • “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.”