February 2012
37 posts
“I know this is the best university in the world, or whatever, but isn’t it a general rule on every college campus that unseasonably warm weather equals day drinking? I just walked clear across this place and did not see one ruit table, horseshoe game or slip ‘n slide. Not even cornhole. If this were my alma mater, everyone would be out on 3’s and by 2pm half of my guy friends would be...
Ben Kweller by Full Circle shared from exfm
“What is it with you people thinking that being 26 is “grown up?” ...”
– Rieger
“I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and you got something else. Or you worked for something. You paid someway for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by...
The End of Wall Street As They Knew It →
New York Magazine
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and...”
– Ghandi
Mark Ronson (covering Miike Snow) - Animal
“I still remember the first time I VPN’d into the VA office to pull up my...”
– Nick
Mitt Romney: 'I’m not concerned about the very... →
January 2012
27 posts
“It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also her wife. It happens when a soldier tells his unit that he’s gay, and they tell him they knew it all along and they didn’t care, because he was the toughest guy in the unit. It happens when a video sparks a movement to let every single young person know they’re not alone, and things will get better. It happens...
Raconte-Moi Une Histoire Sur Le Ciel (mash-up) by...
Kill Hollywood →
“How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people.”
One of my good friends graduated from West Point in 2008. We live in a frenzied age, and it’s easy to forget there are young Americans risking their lives in far off places. Reading things like this gives me pause.
“Vogt, a 2010 graduate of West Point, had barely been in charge of his platoon for a month when he had heroically pushed one of his soldiers out of the way of a second IED...