November 2010
2 posts
Apparently choosing Prom King and the real King... →
Artistic (and financial) Regression
As those in the want-to-be-filmmaking community may have noticed, Amazon.com recently announced the formation of Amazon Studios, where they believe “21st-century technology creates opportunities to make and share movies and scripts more easily than ever.”
Sounds great, right?
Well, probably not. For reasons that clearly demonstrate a total lack of understanding of how movies get...
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
8 posts
hurts
When Amy and I finished college, her mother and sister graciously decided to purchase an extremely nice television as a graduation present.
I’ve never had a really nice television. And since I’m picky about picture quality and intended to keep this TV for a good long while, I wanted to have some say in what we got. So the four of us went down to Costco to pick one out.
Now, I...
This is brilliant →
legacy
On Monday, Dr. Frank Ryan drove his car off a cliff in Malibu in a tragic accident that claimed his life.
More tragic, I feel, is that his death is being reported as follows:
“Dr. Frank Ryan Dead: Heidi Montag’s Plastic Surgeon Dies in a Car Crash at Age 50”
Despite everything this man has done for his entire life — despite the adventures he’s had, the people...
Not helping, zebra. →
yo teach
I feel pretty safe in saying that most mid-20s middle class Americans do the VAST majority of their reading on the internet. Physical newspapers and magazines have long been giving way to the immediacy and intimacy of digital things.
And this is changing reading a bit — long blocks of text are no longer the standard. We now expect our articles and information to be accompanied by images,...
going downhill
I would like to share a quote I just found, pulled from People.com.
“In response to Hansen’s Tweet, Stephanie Tweeted, ‘No josh Hansen u were dumped stop acting like a child. Keep star [expletive] ur (sic) way into Hollywood. Now pls GO AWAY!!!!!!’”
Now let’s break down all the things I find interesting about the grammar. (Oh balls, you say. Now...
keep making clay
This story is old hat by now, but I’m rewriting and posting it here because I need the reminder.
On the first day of a high school pottery class, the teacher announced he was splitting the class in to two groups: one group would be graded solely on the quantity of pottery they produced during the semester, while the other would be graded solely on the quality.
The Quantity group spent the...
July 2010
10 posts
Hipster Wedding →
The Morning Mumble →
Did you guys know that Tumblr has an iPhone app?
It gave me a really good idea for a different blog. A specialized blog, if you will. I don’t remember much about the genesis of the idea, except that it came to me in the shower (as all my best ideas do).
Basically, it’s this: every night I open the Tumblr app on my iPhone, and leave it charging on my nightstand.
In the morning,...
look on the bright side!
Woke up at 6:45 this morning to a rejection letter. Three minutes later, they started jackhammering outside.
This is going to be a long day.
George Washington was probably an asshole too
Have you guys read this? It’s interesting. Brings me back to a point that I’ve been thinking about for a while, which could quite possibly cause the downfall of society as we know it.
Here it is. Ready?
If humans aren’t able to figure out a way to socially keep up with the pace of technology, we are going to destroy ourselves.
The past five years have seen a whirlwind of...
This doesn't mean anything
I’ve been reading lately.
And one of the books I read actually changed my perspective on things to a degree I didn’t quite anticipate. Although, in the same way, it didn’t change anything, because somewhere deep down I think I knew this all along.
The book was called “The Upside of Irrationality”, by Dan Ariely. (You can buy it here.) It’s actually his...
RIP. →
... and we're back.
… to blogging. Because the reason I wanted to have a blog in the first place was to give me a place to brain-dump, publicly. And people have to listen. Or they can stop reading. Either way, I’m happy.
So be expecting more posts, because I’m going to try to do this on the regular, mostly because it helps warm up my brain for more important things.
As to form, I’m...