This story — told by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson — is my favorite example of long-term planning ever. The story may be apocryphal, but in this case, I’m following the advice of the guy from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: if you’ve got a choice between printing truth and legend…print the legend.
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Um, Is It Just Me…
Or does the “alien” captured on video that’s making the rounds look a lot like the old-school Punisher logo? I’m not joking. Is this just a dude in a black Punisher t-shirt standing outside a window?
Fuck Yeah
Next Time You Think About Bitching About Your Car Payments…
Sometimes I think my life sucks. Then I read about shit like this, and I remember that nothing in my life will ever suck this bad. KAMPALA, Uganda – Stephen Batte works in a quarry under the blazing sun, chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer. It’s tiring, boring and dangerous. Stephen is 9 […]
Ghosts In A Burning City, The Song
So as I’ve mentioned, I’m titling the album Ghosts In A Burning City, after a line from a Stephen Vincent Benet poem. But it occurred to me that that title was too evocative not to use in a song. And so there will actually be a title track for the album, and it’s half-written. It’s […]
And Finally…
And This One's For Laurenn…
Some People Have Their Priorities Straight.
You want some of this, copper?
[via BoingBoing]
Holographic Telepresence
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