Why?!
Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic, “When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z”:
“She has more time and wealth than she knows what to do with—and so now she will pause to bathe an elephant. Wait a minute, you say to yourself. Could this be my life too?”
When I moved to Tugun four years ago we paid half what is now marketed as “Tugun’s most affordable home” … what a time to be alive.
Georgia O’Keeffe //
“I said to myself, ‘I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…shapes and ideas so near to me…so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.’ I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
Before he became CEO of the Trump campaign Steve Bannon made his living selling virtual gold on the Internet … Bannon managed to convince Goldman Sachs to plow $60 million into imaginary goods in an imaginary world.
James Clear:
“When considering a new project or opportunity, one of the first questions to ask is, “How do I want to spend my days?”
C. S. Lewis in a letter to a young fan:
Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook, Darren Loucaides:
“As I sat with him, I thought back to the conversation Zuckerberg and Durov allegedly had more than a decade ago. Both saw their nascent social networks as transcendent structures that would free communications from control by the state: governments and regulators reduced to the level of nuisances, rendered obsolete before the liberating force of a platform. Thinking this under a waning winter sun as my conversation with Telegram’s VP concluded, I felt a chill.”
How much are they paying for this myGov thing again? I got the notification email overnight, I’ve been anxious about it all day, finally got the guts to log in and find out what was wrong, and I owe them $0. Can I sue the ATO & myGov for anxiety inducement?
New data on how Americans drank themselves to death during the pandemic, by Christopher Ingraham
The Final Comeback of Axl Rose, by John Jeremiah Sullivan in 2006, referenced in the Rubesletter by Matt Ruby, today:
Axl has said, “I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It’s not contrived.” I agree. One of them is an unexpectedly competent baritone. The most important of the voices, though, is Devil Woman. Devil Woman comes from a deeper part of Axl than do any of the other voices. Often she will not enter until nearer the end of a song. In fact, the dramatic conflict between Devil Woman and her sweet, melodic yang—the Axl who sings such lines as Her hair reminds me of a warm, safe place and If you want to love me, then darling, don’t refrain and Sometimes I get so tense—is precisely what resulted in Guns N’ Roses’ greatest songs…
And what does she say, this Devil Woman? What does she always say, for that matter? Have you ever thought about it? I hadn’t. “Sweet Child,” “Paradise City,” “November Rain,” “Patience,” they all come down to codas—Axl was a poet of the dark, unresolved coda—and to what do these codas themselves come down? Everybody needs somebody. Don’t you think that you need someone? I need you. Oh, I need you. Where do we go? Where do we go now? Where do we go? I wanna go. Oh, won’t you please take me home?
Sitting next to a couple on a first date (over lunch at a kebab shop) and the poor girl is really trying to make this work. After about 30 seconds of silence she asks “so do you read books?”
He’s hesitant with an answer.
This is gruelling!!
Miles Davis:
“If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.”
Sad to see that TED Talks are actually useless
One day I’m going to open a restaurant called Alice’s Restaurant so that the three other Arlo Guthrie fans have somewhere to come and take photos for Instagram.
English writer and poet, D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930):
“The world fears a new experience more than anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.”
