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January 31, 2020
Start over?
Love and Tolerance of Speech and Ideas—not having “correct” or “certain” ideas—is what Western Liberalism is really all about.
Get off your knees.
First? Talk about Everything. Your words and ideas your way.
Then sort things out.
But we must start over.
#FreeSpeechFriday
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January 24, 2020
Free Speech and Expression Friday: Get Off Your Knees.
It’s #FreeSpeechFriday.
Get off your knees.
Stop talking about Speech and Expression.
Start living Speech and Expression.
Stop being Cultural Peasants and Slaves.
Go to your sterile workplaces and talk how you want.
About what you want to talk about.
#FreeSpeechFriday
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January 22, 2020
Making Blind Men See: Rosamund Pike Does Isben
Great characters never go out of date.
When the lights go down and the curtain rises on the magic square of life, Ibsen's men and women will always hold the audience in their spell.
--S. L. Flaxman, January 1959, on dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Making Blind Men See: Rosamund Pike in 2010 as Hedda Gabler at London's Richmond Theatre. Photo: John Swannell.
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January 21, 2020
Sharp Dressed Man
Cuff links, stick pin.
When I step out
I'm gonna do you in.--Gibbons, Hill and Beard (ZZ Top)
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January 19, 2020
Eagle Update
The email I got yesterday from “Boy Scouts of America” and National Eagle Scout Association bore the below image along with a note which read in part:
“HAPPY EAGLE ANNIVERSARY, John.
Board of Review Date: 01/18/1970”
There were no photos of Judy Garland, Bette Midler or Queen
.
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January 18, 2020
Bring Back Real Women.
Catherine Elizabeth Middleton (born January 9, 1982)
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January 14, 2020
The Great Shark Hunt.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
--"Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl", Rolling Stone #155, February 28, 1974) republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979) at 49.
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January 09, 2020
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (1967 - 2020)
I was shocked Monday to learn that writer Elizabeth Wurtzel has died at 52. She was also a lawyer who worked for David Boies awhile. Wurtzel was one of us. Explorer. Sportfucker. Troublemaker. Picaresque city kid sporadically in love with the edge, the abyss and the wild blue yonder.
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January 07, 2020
Merry Christmas, DC Ethiopia.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020.
Merry Christmas today to many new friends in Washington, DC’s growing Ethiopian community.
DC’s Ethiopians have added to American value in all the best ways.
Your Women. Your Work Ethic. Your Class. Your Spirit.
All Beautiful. Wow.
Thank you.
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January 05, 2020
Santa Monica, 1904.
Source: Legendary Surfers
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January 03, 2020
Gustave Flaubert: On Standards.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
--Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
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January 01, 2020
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