January 2009
35 posts
- Only Live Once” feat. Wes Restless
You...
An American Renaissance
Watching Obama as he begins his term has been fascinating. Everything is hanging in the balance RIGHT NOW for America. For 2 years we’ve been talking about a need for radical change in the way we do politics and now talk is cheap and it’s time to act. The threat of a return to the status quo in Washington is looming every day (case in point being Obama’s stimulus package: it...
One hundred years from now...
This was written by my cousin David Hirning:
Thoughts on Today
One hundred years from now, it won’t make a bit of difference. -James P. Craven (my grandfather, now deceased) Today is a new day. What’s special about today? Maybe you’d say, “Nothing.” Or is there? The average life expectancy of human beings is roughly 75 years, or about 27,400 days. That’s a heck of a lot of...
Crazy Subway theatre
Between this and the people dressed like Elmo and playing the xylophone.. (Jeff you have to post that picture you took!) the subways are full of weird people. Keeps things interesting though!
onherway:
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
— (via littlemiss) (via thresca)
Fake movie posters featuring Tracy Jordan from “30 Rock”
Simply the best Oregon football season recap ever
Strap yourself in for Oregon football 2008. Bad ass.
WATCH IT HERE
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I was almost on "The Daily Show"
At the Barack Obama/ HBO concert last Sunday, the group I was standing with near the Lincoln Memorial managed to get on TV a bunch of times. Two of them even made it on “The Daily Show”! I was standing RIGHT next to them during the clip (approx. 2:54)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
So close…yet so far.
Here is a shot of the entire group:
Long Exposure Photography
This collection of photos ALMOST makes we want to take up photography as a hobby. Pretty amazing stuff.
Image by Dave Smith - Exposure: 253 sec
image by Paulo Brandão - exposure time: 124 sec
(via mental_floss Blog)
"all he has to do now is die of accidental...
leitch:
lindsayrobertson:
I’m very much enjoying Jessica Pressler’s coverage of epic fail death-faker Marcus Schrenker. The latest: he left all of his plans in the plane. (If he wasn’t already arrested, this would be a perfect case for Encyclopedia Brown.)
Seriously, everyone needs to read every story about Marcus Schrenker. He might be my favorite person ever from Indiana.
"Superman Comes to the Supermarket"- Norman...
Excerpts from a post on “Get Mitch or Die Trying”:
mmcshane:
To celebrate today’s inauguration, here is a piece written for Esquire in 1960 by Norman Mailer…The superficial comparisons between Barack Obama and Kennedy have been frequently made leading up to today, and their are some similarities to be found. But I think the most common link the men share is a sense of...
...And somewhere on the way, you might find out...
Welcome to the Obama-nation, America.
“You might not be looking for the promised land, but you might find it anyway. Under one of those old familiar names, like New Orleans, Detroit City, Dallas, Pittsburgh PA, New York City, Kansas City, Atlanta, Chicago and L.A. “
James Brown “Livin’ in America”
Changing things up..
I’m messing with a new layout for the blog so bear with me as things change and move around.
Dr. Seuss knows what it's like to be a college...
…You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right… or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from...
Early morning inspiration
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! -
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal:
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul…
- A Psalm of Life
Best Street Coffee in NYC
This is the place I grab coffee from outside my office in Astor Place. Gotta love the Mud Truck!
leitch:
FROST/NIXON
“1. More than anything else, Frost/Nixon is entertaining. This is the time of year when this is somehow meant to be an insult, as in, “Well, I love The Dark Knight, it’s incredibly entertaining … but, you know, it’s not serious.” As if the goal of movies was to be “serious.” (This kind of ridiculousness is how junk like Crash ends up winning Best Picture.) Anyway,...
UofO love from Sunny's "Sweet Dee"
From Stewart Mandel’s “College Football Mailbag”:
Personally, I’ve got bigger beefs right now than the BCS. For instance, how the heck did Kaitlin Olson not get a Golden Globe nomination?
Seriously — what’s up with that, Kaitlin?
Kaitlin: I don’t even want a Golden Globe. Golden Globes are for jerks. That’s not true — I’m pissed. But...
Exciting. Daring. Provocative. Sexual. Violent.
mmcshane:
Welcome to my new music blog, or “mulog”. Six months ago I would have made fun of any one of my friends who started a blog, let alone a damn music blog. What’s changed? Repeated requests for me to post music I like, and an abundance of free time. If because of my blog someone discovers a song or group they never would have had exposure to otherwise, my job is done. I thank the both of...
Emancipator - Shook (Mobb Deep/Sigur Ros)
Cool mix of music and photos of paintings by Raphael Lacoste.
When the candle lights of home, Burn so very far...
Gov’t Mule - Soulshine
Let your soul shine It’s better than sunshine It’s better than moonshine Damn sure better than rain
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J.J. Cale - Magnolia
Clint Eastwood: straight shooter
Great quotes from a recent interview in Esquire:
As Jerry Fielding used to say, “We’ve come this far, let’s not ruin it by thinking.”
I remember going to a huge waterfall on a glacier in Iceland. People were there on a rock-platform overlook to see it. They had their kids. There was a place that wasn’t sealed off, but it had a cable that stopped anybody from...
Senator Al Franken Does a Fine Mick Jagger
1. Thats a pretty dead on impression.
2. Al Franken had some serious pythons back in the day. Who knew?
(video via Old Man Craven)
Work Chillout Song o' the Day
Love Dog - TV on the Radio
Something slow Has sparked up in me As dog cries for a master Sparks are whirling faster
Jay Mariotti and I work together now (kinda)
SUNNIER TIMES IN NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA By JAY MARIOTTI AOL
We all have our career flashpoints. Mine came in China, perhaps triggered by a near-death experience while climbing the Great Wall. Or the horror of Bill Plaschke, my TV sparring partner, trying the local delicacy — animal penis — and concluding, “I guess I like penis; it’s very tasty.” Or maybe the sight...
Robin Williams on the 2008 Election
“And you find him wandering the hall going, ‘I’ve got a plan!’..Get in the car, Uncle John.”
(via A.Y.B)