John Biggs=A Major Media Figure On The Internet

"When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:45:56 -0400

“

When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.

”

- In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

(via explore-blog)

Real Businessmen

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:34:43 -0400

Real Businessmen

Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs (by...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:14:31 -0400

Nikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs (by NorthernImagination)

The is a very GEENERIC symbol

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:23 -0400

The is a very GEENERIC symbol

"But as Slate points out, the anti-fluoridation movement is not driven by science as much as an..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:43:20 -0400

“But as Slate points out, the anti-fluoridation movement is not driven by science as much as an ascendent knee-jerk anti-establishment politics that sanctifies “personal choice” over all. This attitude unites the extreme left and extreme right in a weird nexus of alternative medicine, Infowars-type conspiracy theories, and environmental activism that results in both your high school friends and your aunt spewing the same articles from NaturalNews all over your Facebook wall.”

- Quacks of All Political Persuations Fight Fluoridation In Portland

Mr. Show news Young People & Companions.flv (by Ramble1212)

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:24 -0400

Mr. Show news Young People & Companions.flv (by Ramble1212)

120pagemonster: smartasshat: rartastic: buzzfeed: You can...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:30:38 -0400

120pagemonster:

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You can change the direction this train is moving just by thinking about it.

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"Yet when it was finally my turn to approach the rows of white urinals, my world came screeching to a..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:21:40 -0400

“Yet when it was finally my turn to approach the rows of white urinals, my world came screeching to a halt. There they were, a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals, peering their head from side to side, blinking or winking, as they relieved themselves.”

- At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom - NYTimes.com

"The casings served as evidence in the Jan. 18, 2004 murders of Chris Heyman, 17, and Blake Harris,..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:27:44 -0400

“The casings served as evidence in the Jan. 18, 2004 murders of Chris Heyman, 17, and Blake Harris, 18, who were shot in the backseat of a tan Mustang in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. In their last moments, Heyman and Harris talked on their cellphones to friends before they put them down and the driver went to turn the stereo back on. When they reached the overpass, a shooter emptied a modified AP-9 fully-automatic submachine gun in a rapid burst into the Mustang. The gun could fire over 30 rounds per second.”

- Gun Violence And 1 Teenager’s Death: 48 Shots Documented In Crime Scene Photos (GRAPHIC)

KRYSPY CRUST

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:04:37 -0400

KRYSPY CRUST

Kid Snippets: “Co-Pilots” (Imagined by Kids) (by...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:16:53 -0400

Kid Snippets: “Co-Pilots” (Imagined by Kids) (by BoredShortsTV)

"There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace,..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:49:19 -0400

“There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well.”

- Frank Sinatra Quotes

MC Frontalot - I’ll Form The Head [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (by MC...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:24:20 -0400

MC Frontalot - I’ll Form The Head [OFFICIAL VIDEO] (by MC Frontalot)

"More interesting is the destiny of the files describing 3D printed guns. These model-files have been..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:23:19 -0400

“

More interesting is the destiny of the files describing 3D printed guns. These model-files have been temporarily removed from the internet at the behest of the US State Department, which is investigating the possibility that they violate the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Wilson says that he’s on safe ground here, because the regulations do not cover material in a library, and he says the internet is like a library. As this is taking place in the US, there’s also the First Amendment to be considered, which limits government regulation of speech.

Here’s where things get scary for me. Defense Distributed is headed for some important, possibly precedent-setting legal battles with the US government, and I’m worried that the fact that we’re talking about guns here will cloud judges’ minds. Bad cases made bad law, and it’s hard to think of a more emotionally overheated subject area. So while I’d love to see a court evaluate whether the internet should be treated as a library in law, I’m worried that when it comes to guns, the judge may find himself framing the question in terms of whether a gun foundry should be treated as a library.

”

- 3D printed guns are going to create big legal precedents. Boing Boing

Beautiful. THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:06:13 -0400

Beautiful.

THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)

Tim and Eric jaeginmywaeg: Look at these baby men

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:53:23 -0400

Tim and Eric

jaeginmywaeg:

Look at these baby men

Kid Snippets: “Job Interview” (Imagined by Kids) (by...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:36:11 -0400

Kid Snippets: “Job Interview” (Imagined by Kids) (by BoredShortsTV)

A Deer Steals Man’s Wife (by Umut Ozturk)

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:58:36 -0400

A Deer Steals Man’s Wife (by Umut Ozturk)

Truffle Shuffle

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:09:31 -0400

Truffle Shuffle

Punch (Let’s Be Real) (by BrianaLynnWolf)

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:41:01 -0400

Punch (Let’s Be Real) (by BrianaLynnWolf)