Hackneyed

  • Hallmark & Chill

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    If you ever find yourself looking for a Christmas movie involving a grown woman trapped in a magical snow globe, I’ve seen two. Also, Holiday in Handcuffs, the Buffalo ’66 of the genre. PS: Luke, read more, you philistine.

  • The MFIC

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    Luke, it was great meeting you and hanging out, although we could have spent more time together. I was planning on working on my enigma persona, but you were too much fun. MFIC, RM. That was the first of thousands of emails from my then “new boss” (MFIC stood for “Mother Fucker in Charge,” borrowed…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…