16 5 / 2013
"What made my first year of full-time freelancing so happy, besides not ever having to ride the subway during rush hour, wasn’t anything specific about what my workdays were like. I wasn’t accomplishing much, I was wasting a lot of time, and a lot of the time I was bored. Most days, my work did not go well and I felt dejected about my actual writing. But I still felt good and hopeful, because all these potential paths seemed possible. Everything seemed possible. Unpleasant things had happened to me but I still had never been majorly unlucky. This sense of infinite possibility was like a drug; hooked on it, I clung to it even after it should have been clear that I needed to move on, I couldn’t just stay poised to do something forever."
16 5 / 2013
"We nearly Kickstarted the budget back in November. But now I’m feeling like that’s not fair to real indie filmmakers who need the help. Unlike back when I made Clerks in ‘91, I’ve got access to money now — so I should use that money and not suck any loot out of the crowd-funding marketplace that might otherwise go to some first-timer who can really use it."
13 5 / 2013
John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
13 5 / 2013
The Invisible War
This is powerful and important - tune in: http://www.notinvisible.org/pbs
08 5 / 2013
I am still here: back online after a year without the internet
I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was “corrupting my soul.” It’s a been a year now since I…
This is fascinating.
06 5 / 2013
Bay To Breakers this Year
- 1: I am not dressing up
- 1: let's go to Jay's and watch from Alamo Square
- 1: we cannot get arrested
- 2: hahahahahaha
- 2: ok
- 2: sounds good - why not?
- 1: no one has any money to bail anyone out
- 1: we can't get arrested
04 5 / 2013
Star Search: Heaven’s Map for Getting Lost
NGS-POSS Plate O636, taken December 13, 1952 (all images courtesy Apexart)
“Billions and billions…
18 4 / 2013
Gavin Newsom: Cowardly vote, shameful day
The President got what he asked for today in his State of the Union Address – a vote. In fact, he got several votes. A handful of shameful, cowardly votes against a safer country for our children.
In a State of the Union address that moved the country, President Obama intoned over and again,…
15 4 / 2013
"What emerges is a refreshing celebration of happiness encrusted not in the bombastic language of our self-help pop psychology culture, but in the quiet humility of the real, the lived, the timeless human experience."
15 4 / 2013
"Even as they make a remote-access future possible for the rest of us, they’re doing everything they can to preserve an office environment that’s surprisingly old school."
