I swear to God, I thought Harvey Walden and RuPaul were the same person for a sec. Check out the cover of Harvey’s book and RuPaul in But I’m a Cheerleader. Crazy.
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Goddamn, it’s a good thing I’m not in Toronto right now, because I’d be a 95 pound, cocaine-snorting groupie for Fritz Helder. Shit. This album is like a perfect combination of vogue, neon 80s and Grandmaster Flash or something. Anyway, whatever, go listen to it.
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I don’t read him anymore, but Steve Pavlina pointed me to this guide (no longer available) a few years ago which helps me lay out my goals every year. I’m not a Tony Robbins guy otherwise (never read any of his books), but this thing works for me, so I do it at the beginning of every year.
I’ll make the file temporarily available here in case anyone wants to look at it. It just helps you outline stuff, but it’s good.
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So I’m on this CBC show Test the Nation on January 20th. I’m really not sure what it’s about, but it’s with a ton of other bloggers including Amber Mac, Andy Nulman, and tons of others (there is, in fact, a whole blogger ‘team’). I imagine I’ll basically annihilate any chance of my team winning.
Anyway, it’s being filmed live, so I won’t get a chance to see it. If someone from Montreal could TiVo it or whatever, it would be awesome.
Update: Hugh McGuire would also like to inform you that he is also on the show. So there we go. So is Craig Silverman, for that matter, and we’ll probably get wasted while we’re there if he has anything to do with it. :)
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Probably the best gift I got this Xmas was Phaidon’s amazing book, Sculpture Today. For anyone that doesn’t know, Phaidon books are unbelievable– well made books that discuss art and design at depth. Great stuff– get one for the art lover in your family.
I’ve been interested in sculpture for a long time. In college I pursued a brief Fine Arts career, which ended with me pussying out over the amount of sweat involved in sculpting metal. But I’ve been impressed by large-scale stone, concrete, and metal work since I don’t know when.
Last year, because of my girlfriend (who also gave me the book this Xmas), I became interested in Land Art as well. I knew then that my passion for this kind of stuff hadn’t died. I don’t know where it’s going, either, but I do feel like it’s going somewhere.
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Check out the number of birds that show up in Austin, TX, during this time of year. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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Sorry, this is just copied from Hugh’s post, but I have no words for this. (More here.)
Alive in Baghdad correspondent Ali Shafeya was killed on December 14th, details are still coming in. He was 24, survived by mom and sister.
and:
but is that worth even one human’s life? We are still not 100% sure its not the assignment we gave that killed him.
and:
We’ve raised $90, can anyone else help Ali’s family pay for the funeral? his brothers and father are all dead. survived by one sis & mother
and:
you can make a donation to suport his family to smallworldnews@gmail.com via paypal, please note that it is for Ali’s family.
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Ok, so Hugh’s new site EarIdeas has a challenge: Name the best podcasts you know of, and Hugh promises to listen to them and add them if they’re up to par. (EarIdeas wants to provide novices with great first experiences when listening to audio on the web.) So, here we go– I’ll tag a few people afterwards to keep it going.
I know I should have five right now, but I’m in a kind of rush, so four will have to do. And since I’ve named five people already in this post, those will be the people I tag: Mitch, Dave, Tim, Clarence, and Dan. Move it!
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If you know Chris Penn, you probably know about Myspace friend adder applications. Basically, these applications log onto Myspace for you, add friends, comment on their pages, etc. I don’t know who uses these anymore, but guess what? Now you can get one for Twitter.
I’m not going to link to the site (remember, every link is a vote), but by typing in wwwTwitter.com into your address bar (no dot between “www” and “twitter”), you can find it.
It adds 20 random Twitter friends for you. Imagine that.
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I just placed an order for the One Laptop Per Child program. It’s 400 bucks well spent, and I recommend you do the same. It’s available as of today for the US and Canada. You get two right now under their Give One, Get One program.
In addition, if you Canadians can find a way to get an American to place the order (like I’m doing), you’ll get yourself free wifi at T-Mobile hotspots for a year. If you travel enough, that alone is worth the price of the machines.
Also, as Chris Penn put it, marketers have yet another reason to buy the machines: Thousands of them will be coming online during the holidays, so getting to know them is a great idea.
Anyway, so I get one of them, and the second one I buy is automatically going to someone in need, which I feel great about. Go and order one today.
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