February 2012
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January 2012
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“One of my proudest possessions is the flag that the SEAL Team took with them on...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
I got all yall’s back. For real.
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Atheism 2.0 and The Common Community
Christianity, and other collective mythologies founded on faith in a mystical deity are flawed. (<- Early contender for the most obvious sentence of 2012 award) The highest form of faith is believing in something that can ultimately be disproved. The more impossible the belief, the stronger the required faith. This is irrational and certainly not a virtue. For the purposes of this screed Faith...
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Wade Davis on Work
“A career is not something that you put on like a coat. It is something that grows organically around you, step by step, choice by choice, experience by experience. Everything adds up. No work is beneath you. Nothing is a waste of time unless you make it so.”
Never have a job. Always work.
Life is too short to be unoriginal.
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December 2011
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Anonymous asked: Just curious. In your blog about Tim Tebow, what's with all this "used to believe" talk? Why not anymore?
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Tim Tebow Is Not Ashamed (and he's not lying)
Tim Tebow believes everything he says. I know this because I used to be Tim Tebow. Well, not literally, of course, you dumbass. I mean I used to say the things Tim Tebow says and I used to believe the things Tim Tebow believes.
There’s a temptation among “non-believers” to lump all “believers” into a single category of “crazy religious people.”...
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I’ve listened to this song 23 times in the...
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Classic Me: The First Time I Got High
I knew the weed was kicking in when my fingers became cold. My body temperature was dropping and I felt my head bobbing back and forth with the motion of the bus. Not violently, but in a way that made my head feel about 3 pounds heavier.
And then came the intense focus on listening. “I have super human hearing right now!” was the first thing I muttered when I was fully lit. I could...
November 2011
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WatchI really hope Fred has more of this ready to go for Portlandia season 2.
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October 2011
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From the Critic
I used to be a snotty little bastard.*
A song would come on the radio and I’d immediately identify everything wrong with it: “The mix is terrible.” “The bass sounds like my nephew farting.” “The compression feels like a baby drill sergeant is having karaoke night in my left ear.” “Really? Another song about making it rain up in da club?”...
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Steve Jobs' Final 'One More Thing'
56. Steve fit a century’s worth of innovation and vision into 56 years. A compact, elegantly designed life.
It’s tempting to mythologize a person once they’ve gone and this is especially true with Steve. Tonight, Steve becomes a simple and beautifully executed idea with lasting impact, not unlike his products. He’s changed the world no fewer than three unique and lasting...
September 2011
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September 12th
It’s always the morning after that’s most revealing. Whether it means recovering from tragedy or reveling in triumph, the morning after is what defines us. Throughout each of our personal histories of break ups, and birthdays, and pink slips, and funerals, and graduations, there come those mornings when we can’t believe what just happened the day before. Sometimes we wake up numb...
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Cursed Bets
So, last night’s Saints-Packers game was classic proof that I am indeed cursed. I’ve joked about it for years, and then the laughter turned to tears as I watched my Skins fail year after year after year. The curse is no joke and I’m gonna prove it now.
I started a site to track all my NFL predictions and analyze what happens to them. I’ll probably make some gambling...
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“We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be...”
– a Navy SEAL describing his unit, in this latest update to The Washington Post’s investigation Top Secret America. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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Let me tell you about my crazy week
oh what, nobody cares? ok got it.
August 2011
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Honor the Fallen
22 Navy SEALs among 30 U.S. Troops killed in Afghanistan as NATO helicopter is shot down
This is absolutely tragic. There aren’t enough words or accolades to describe the extraordinary courage and sacrifice of our armed forces, especially when we lose 30 of our finest in one horrific incident. The War on Terror has gone on for nearly 10 years now, and it’s still surreal and sobering...
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Dogs Playing Football
Last night my wife and I were debating what position Madden would play on a football team. Then I got carried away thinking about who his teammates would be and spent the next few hours toiling over a roster. My wife moved on with her life. I love dogs. I love football. So, without further ado:
The Ultimate K9 Football Team OFFENSE
Quarterback - Labrador Retriever NFL doppelgänger: Peyton...
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July 2011
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Accountability by Shame
I’d like to develop a new style of documentary/guerilla filmmaking that delivers immediate and lasting public humiliation against terrible people. Imagine watching a talking head documentary like Waiting for Superman or Hot Coffee build a case against a deplorable figure - maybe a politician or a lobbyist or a CEO. As we learn more and more about his awful behavior, it becomes clear that...
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A Few Words on Music
Sometimes I listen to music and I feel my heart punching out of my chest, like it’s been prematurely stuffed in a coffin and needs to pound its way out. I’ve been wanting to write about music for a long time and I still can’t summon the right words. It’s just so fucking visceral. Music rips you up and shreds you. I can’t write about music because it’s more than...
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Fine, I'll Read Harry Potter
I never read fiction. I read to learn and I’ve always felt the ROI on nonfiction was so much greater. Also, I find it hard (and a bit foolish) to immerse myself in imagined worlds intended to entertain children. Maybe I’m too distraught when good things come to end and so I don’t let myself warm up to fiction, but from what I gather, the HP series are remarkable works of imagination and narrative....