6 posts tagged “good magazine”
I told Anil I was stealing this idea and now, for you, a new blog feature - Beyond the 140!
home! my short good friday wasn't that short. Now waiting for my sister to come over so we can go see There Will Be Blood at the arclight.
The sisterly time included a lively conversation about what her dream 21st birthday would look like (a trip to Paris with friends from both LA and New York) and what my ideal wedding would look like (taking 20 people - 10 for the bride, 10 for the groom - to the Greek Islands featuring a small outdoor ceremony, a ship, me being named the new king of Santorini and a lot of happy). That said, pretty much any dream party of mine these days involves taking X number of people to Y location (where Y varies from Greece, South Africa, Japan or Hawaii).
This was my favorite article in last month's GOOD. I want the most expensive pizza, like now: http://xrl.us/bh29f
hot dog talk: twitter as food pr0n: flickr - put that on your SAT Verbal Exam.
a hot dog is most perfect with just mustard. You may add cheese, chili, saurkraut and maybe relish (not all at once). at a BBQ, bbq sce, ok
ketchup is *never* okay on a hot dog made for the kid.
“We cling to handwriting out of a romantic sense that script expresses identity.”
I'm not sure I agree with that but I think we should be focusing on typing ahead of handwriting with kids.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (via a tweet by Will Keightley), about 3 hours ago, 02.06.08"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
I've been cynical about politics since the mid nineties. Going to college in DC will do that to you, I think. So, while everyone around me was getting swept up in Obama fever, I sat back. I liked Kucinich and Edwards. Kucinich was down the line with me politically. I could even get down with him believing in aliens. Aliens is, in my opinion, the best action film of all time. Edwards, I trust. He's a doer. He walks the walk of his politics. He's the embodiment of the contradiction that is the soul of America that I love. Obama, the cynic in me thought, I don't know squat about that guy except that people are glad to come and hear him speak. They love it.
This I can get with. If Barack Obama is that kind of an agent of change, I'm down. If Barack Obama can, without question, inspire these genuine feelings of hope and unity and activism then, hell, I could honestly care less about his plan. I thank GOOD magazine for breaking it down for me (Mrs. Clinton got one, too) and I thank the Christmas elves for putting The Audacity of Hope in my stocking. I'm sure I'll read it eventually. Mostly, though, I thank Obama for dealing in big ideas. For encouraging, no, demanding change. For challenging us to be better than ourselves. For challenging us to stop waiting. What did he say last night?
Yes, we are.
Let's go.
To say you're not a feminist is virtually the same thing as saying you're a racist.
- Christie Hefner in this month's GOOD Magazine (which is chock full of GOOD stuff, obvs.)
Reconstruction delays have left fissures in once close-knit neighborhoods, so in an attempt to reconnect New Orleans residents to desolate areas still awaiting rebuilding, a local artist named Robert Vicknair founded Neighborhoods, a program that transforms gutted houses into art galleries for a night. The first Neighborhoods event—there have since been two others—occurred in the decimated Lower Ninth Ward in June, 2006. Inside the shell of a house, a few feet from a levee holding back the Mississippi River, about 80 visitors with flashlights shone their way through the exhibition. More than a year after Hurricane Katrina, the power was still out.
- Reclaiming Katrina, GOOD Magazine, 08.09.07 (and in the current print issue)
Today and tomorrow, I'm at pixelodeon 2007 but you knew that already, right?
I'm currently at the starbucks on Hollywood & Western taking a break from the screenings and getting an iced coffee and a sammich. Here are some quick thoughts:
- Despite the intersection of creators and tech, this doesn't feel like a tech event at all. Way fewer laptops, way more Blackberries.
- That said, web folks are here. Nick Douglas, Sean Bonner, Jackson West, Halcyon, co-worker Dave from Family Fun, and a bunch of other faces I recognize from SXSW.
- I'm pretty sure Ask A Ninja just nonchalantly threw out there that they have a 7 figure deal with federated media.
- Having to take the steps to get up to the AFI Campus after walking up the hill that is Western and a workout that featured 3-tiered squats this morning was very not awesome.
- The
UGCindie online media creator conversation has matured in just the three months since SXSW. It's interesting looking at it from my traditional media perch. - I don't watch nearly enough online video. There's really interesting stuff out there.
- New places to check out: good magazine, freshtopia, treehuggertv, kenyattacheese.net.
- Also, I really kind of want to sell my car and convert a diesel vehicle into a biodiesel machine or get rid of my car altogether and maybe buy some land and build a scrap house.
