Recently readMy buddy Bob Schwartz has two blog posts I’d like to respond to, but he has no comments. So:
1) I agree, Julian Stanczak’s work on the north side of the Fifth Third garage is fantastic.
2) Re a small grocery downtown, you can actually get all this stuff from existing retailers. I get my deli […]
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Further to this post about the horrible use of the word consumer, Terry Heaton touches on the icky way people use the word brand. To those people I say: Knock it off, please.
This reminds me of a current mini-drama in my life, with the owners of my apartment building. I’ve been trying to get them […]
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Andy Hajjar owns Andy’s Mediterranean Grille in Eden Park. He’s a Lebanese emigré and an all-around lovely guy. (There’s another pic of us here.) If you eat at his place, I highly recommend the labneh, the kibbeh, and the tawook chicken.
I love getting to meet local entrepreneurs like Andy. It’s nice to know that the […]
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Or, rather, it is when people apply it to human beings.
Dave Winer says: “I give up.”
I don’t identify as a consumer. Why not get it over with and refer to me as a parasite.
Reminds me of the wonderful Jerry Michalski quotation I first got via Doc Searls:
First, we’re readers, viewers, listeners and (most of all) […]
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I just finished A Girl Named Zippy and read half of She Got Up Off the Couch this morning, and I can think of few writers whose sheer talent has moved me the way Haven Kimmel’s has and is. Maybe I’ll write more about that later. In the meantime, I think this quotation from Kimmel […]
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The Sunday Times is on fire with provocative writing this week. George Walden’s piece on charging for museum entry is excellent. Money quote:
The strongest argument for charges is that it enables people like me to sponge off taxpayers poorer than myself and to walk into museums without the hassle of a ticket. The strongest case […]
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A commenter on this piece makes the point that Only Palestine, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are ethnically cleansed (of Jews). Nearly 25% of Israel’s population is NOT Jewish. Israel is more multi-cultural than any European nation. The UK can barely tolerate 5-6% of its population being non-white.
[A] fear society [is] one in which you can’t […]
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AA Gill gets me thinking about the value of bloggers when he writes about the sorry state of theatre criticism:
Look at restaurants and food. The incremental improvement in the quality and sophistication and enjoyment of eating, cooking and buying food [in Britain] has coincided with the rise of good, angry, witty, opinionated writing. It’s the […]
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And you thought YOUR parents were jerks!
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Jeff Nolan, writing on “an 8 year long train wreck that will inevitably only be ‘discovered’ by western media when more people die and guns erupt in Harare. Maybe Bob Geldof and Bono will hold a concert”:
It’s somewhat cruelly ironic that South Africa is now suffering the consequences of Zimbabwe’s collapse given that SA President […]
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These are all the posts you need to read to find out WTF is going on with this soap opera:
Jeff Jarvis has detailed coverage that sums up the problems pretty well. Federated Media sells the ad space on his blog, and he is critical of their actions. (My question: Why didn’t he blog about this […]
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Sometimes my mind boggles at all the great music I’ve almost forgotten. I used to listen to this Gomez record, from 2000 or so, about ten times a day for several months. (Never saw the video till now, though.) This one was also on constant rotation back then. And then I forgot them. When I […]
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I seem to disagree with Christopher Hitchens about as often as I agree with him, but he is spot-on here, saying (at 7:40) that if defending freedom of expression is not a worthwhile cause, what on earth would be? He is also correct (go to the last 57 seconds for this bit in particular) in […]
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Feel free just to answer in your own head:
What do you do to feel more alive? Does this activity ever hurt rather than help? Is it something you would recommend to others? (If so, please share!)
This is a question I’ve been discovering my own answers to a lot lately. Almost everything I’ve ever done to […]
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