January 2011
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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
hitrecordjoe:
We Americans are giving the Egyptian government shit for trying to block information. Meanwhile, American cable companies refuse to offer this world-renowned news source, which would be the best place on TV for us to see what’s going on over there.
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Well, aren’t the printed word and the motion picture both technologies that blew...
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt in an open letter to Peter Travers
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BE A KID AGAIN
TARIK MIKOU
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koooozie:
tonight, we dance.
I just watched this in a diner and started laughing so hard I choked on my smoothie, spilled water everywhere, and still just went on watching and laughing. Then the waiter came over to see about all the fuss and started watching and laughing too. Three bus boys shortly joined us. They’re all still standing here asking me to play it again while the water...
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Don’t spend too long wanting what is taken instead of what is given.
Don’t be careless in falling in love. It’s possible to fall straight through a man and wind up on the other side of him.
Relax and don’t think too much about anything.
Decide to never settle and then never say never again.
Consider this: Paul Graham’s “Photography is Easy, Photography is...
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Lost and Found
Some of the more positive rantings from last winter’s existential crisis:
Creation is the truthful expression of beauty. Love is necessary to appreciate beauty.
Adventure, spontaneity, and experience are necessary to inspire love and beauty.
Truth is impossible without freedom. If a person is limited in their exploration or creation in any way (physical or mental, external or internal...
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Things you’d always remember if they ever happened but they never did.
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Say you want to get paid, get laid, and give aid.
– Alisdair’s advice on how I should go about becoming Culture Curator for the UN
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Resolutions so far
1: Enter every thing this year - every day, endeavor, encounter, etc. - with the belief and attitude that it’s going to be great, so I’ve been smiling for three days.
2: Finally learn how to work a camera, so I ordered myself a new toy.
3: End my respite and reenter the world, so I’m going to India (and Iceland, and more).
Tsering’s family kindly offered me...