Recently readI used to listen to the Ricky Gervais Podcast on my commute and struggle so much not to laugh out loud on the Tube. Karl Pilkington, of course, emerged as the real star of that one. He’s so British, but with a humor that I think would play well in North America too. Or maybe […]
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It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light.
-G.K. Chesterton
Action and feeling go together…by regulating action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling…
-William James
(via email from Gretchen Rubin)
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My endorsement is at the top of my favorite new blog, Lolsecretz! It won’t be there long, but I’m just dorky enough to get a kick out of that. Thanks to Gwen for the heads-up via Facebook!
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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss! Together! OH MY GOD! (It’s the #2 album in the US, too, which gives me some hope for this country.)
Here’s one of their songs, Stick with Me, Baby:
Here’s how it happened (and, wow, T Bone Burnett is a lot more white than I expected!):
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My buddy Matt Welch is one of the best writers working today, and I’m excited to get my hands on a copy of his new book. Since I haven’t yet, I’ll steal a quote from it from our mutual friend Amy Alkon’s blog:
The campaign finance crusade is where the modern McCain as we know him […]
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As ever. But for starters: What kind of company has a black tie Christmas party at a bowling alley? Since when do bowling alleys even host black tie events? Can you imagine this woman as a sales manager, crying and hiding out all the time? (I’m not saying she’s lying about being harassed, just that […]
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Cincinnati Supper Club - October
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I can honestly say, hand on heart, that I have never had a better, more fun time organizing any event than I had hosting the eighth Cincinnati Supper Club gathering last night. For some reason, the work it required felt easy and enjoyable (even the clean-up took only […]
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I’m with Wired editor Chris Anderson on spam. Easily 70 per cent of the email I have to sift through each day comes from PR people (usually spamming me in relation to the beauty blog, with press releases totally unrelated to beauty and/or obviously outside the realm of what we cover. We’re not a print […]
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Guy Herbert:
“It so much worse than we thought, that absolutely nobody noticed,” they cry. Something must be done! Starting with more counting, more monitoring and more control so that we never fail to notice nothing untoward happening ever again.
He’s talking about attitudes to immigration to the UK, but the same mockery could be made of […]
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My BlackBerry fell victim to this time change bug on Sunday. I manually changed it, but it “corrected” itself overnight, which made for a rather rushed Monday morning. I’m just going to change my phone to Central Time for the next week and hope I don’t mess up any video conferences with people in other […]
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I got this email earlier today from Ayaan’s office, and reproduce it in full at her urging:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch parliamentarian and an outspoken defender of women’s rights in Islamic societies, is at risk from a variety of extremist threats in both Europe and the United States. She has needed constant security protection […]
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When I met Matt Mullenweg last summer, all I could think was how cool it was that someone born in 1984 was doing so well for himself - and with products that actually do a damn fine job (I have been running new projects exclusively on Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org open source for about two years […]
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This is the kind of news that makes me want to move back to Britain:
Bianca is coming back to Albert Square!
Sadly, I am not even slightly exaggerating. EastEnders used to be a national treasure, until about five years ago. Maybe Patsy Palmer can restore it to glory. Just watching this makes me a little […]
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Rob took a picture of Schuyler that takes my breath away. Then he went and made it even more hard-hitting by explaining the moment:
After our meeting at St. Martin’s, I took her for a walk towards the Empire State Building, site of her hero’s last stand against pesky bi-planes. About half a block away, I […]
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