With the exception of the arts, humans having opposable thumbs surely represents the biggest waste of opportunity and potential in the universe.
I have become a later life fan of The Cure. Songs of a Lost World is beautiful.
I lose all my life like this
Reflecting time and memories
And all for fear of what I’ll find
If I just stop and empty out my mind
Of all the ghosts and all the dreams
All I hold to in belief
That all I ever am
Is somehow never quite all I am now
—from All I Ever Am
This clip has over 40 million views so It would seem I am late to discover it.
Blown away by the talent and the humanity on display here.
Last night I stood in my dark kitchen.
I saw the moon fit in a single opening
of the horizontally divided outside.
I said I love you moon.
Not for your indifference,
but for your steadfastness.
This scene was formative for me. The foreshadowing was palpable, but the scene really hit home after you finished the film. Frankie Valli singing in such a sweet and innocent way…oof.
De Niro, Walken, Cazale.
First Paragraph:
“From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts.”
—Derek Sivers, Anyting You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
I just saw some more of the footage from the Trump rally where he stood on stage and played music for almost 40 minutes. I suppose many of you have seen it too.
I was cleaning out old bookmarks today and came across this quirky service that epitomizes the sort of simplicity we crave for publishing on the net (albeit anonymously.) text.fyi
Here’s my one and only post on the service back in 2018. Maker
And here is the writing interface, markdown ok. text.fyi
Can you get yourself to publish something that you know no-one will ever see? If you don’t copy the URL, you’ll never see it again either! 🙂
Goodbye Firefox. But where to now?
Marjorie Taylor Green declared yesterday, with maps of southeastern US as props, that Democrats are capable of controlling the weather and that they used this power to wreak havoc and destruction on the red state havens of their enemies.
I must thank her for erasing the last tiny vestiges of belief I clung to in the gravitas of responsible leadership. I’m not naive but I desperately wanted to believe that being close to the highest levels of power in our democracy would inspire some level of seriousness and sense of duty.
No. The only person stupider than MTG is me.