Let me start by saying that i don’t dislike Hillary Clinton. I think she’s a smart, capable and ambitious woman. She definitely knows the major political issues at hand and has some good first-hand experience. That said, I dislike the “Hillary Clinton situation”
Let me explain. We live in a celebrity culture: US [...]
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I read this post on Caterina Flake’s blog. I thought it was worth a repost. I love the concept of looking vs. eating. I believe we live in a culture that is consistently eating rather than appreciating.
“Beauty is the only finality here below. As Kant said very aptly, it is a finality which [...]
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Jimmy Kimmel posted a response to his girlfriend’s video about f’ing Matt Damon. That video is here and the response Jimmy did is here:
My thoughts are this: What Matt and Sarah did was really creative, original, and funny. Ben’s response is also funny, but what makes it funny is the amount of effort they went [...]
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From Sideways8 correspondent Jules - some good videos that should (hopefully) make you feel smarter….
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For today a poem titled “America” by my favorite poet Tony Hoagland…
America
Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud
Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison
Whose walls are made of RadioShacks and Burger Kings, and MTV episodes
Where you can’t tell the show from the commercials,
And as I consider how to [...]
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(looking for love in all the wrong places?)
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Facebook is a combination of Web 2.0 companies. That’s one way to look at it. The flip side - and more accurate - is to say that there are many Web 2.0 companies that are taking a piece or feature of Facebook and making an entire service out of it. Not the most [...]
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As everyone knows i’m a HUGE Coen Bros. fan and i just heard that their next project will be adapting Michael Chabon’s book The Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
I haven’t read this particular Chabon book, but i have read Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay which are both really good. You can [...]
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Newspapers are on the way out. My friend Jules has been telling me this for years. I saw two more big pieces of evidence this week.
First, i read the fantastic article in Esquire called “A Newspaper Can’t Love You Back” by David Simon, the creator of The Wire. The article is a [...]
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“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” were the words spoken by Mike Tyson. Probably the smartest thing he’s ever said
As Giants lineman Michael Strahan pointed out after the game, this is exactly how you describe Super Bowl 42. The Patriots had a great offensive plan until Tom Brady [...]
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