Operating in a Silo
May 2010
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April 2010
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Finally, reader Kevin Forbes notes that most people aren’t born to one category or another but go through stages of delay, much like the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ famous stages of grief:
1. Denial: This can’t be happening!
2. Anger: Who is responsible for this?
3. Bargaining: Just let me on the plane …
4. Depression: I’m never getting out of here.
5. Acceptance: Might as well make the best of it, who wants to grab a latte?
No good deed goes unpunished.
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I’ve been rocking some facial hair for about nine months now.
Yesterday, the old man that sits in my lobby, who I talk to practically everyday finally looked up at me and said “Trying to grow a beard, are you?”
“Yeap…trying to…”
“The first name on the sign-in sheet for Tuesday night’s adult pick-up hockey at the Pelham Ice Rink had to be a joke, right?
“What idiot signed in as Maxim Afinogenov?” the next guy in line wanted to know.” —
“What idiot signed in as Maxim Afinogenov?” the next guy in line wanted to know.” —
Melick: Fed Cup lures ‘Mad Max’ to Pelham
And scores 17 goals!
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“In general, Canadians are a tiny bit less full of shit than the Americans.”
He likes to swear. He also likes to make slightly shocking statements. It is an aspect of his confidence, his ambition, his ego.
” —James Cameron: Beyond the third dimension
I still think he’s a bit of a pretentious dick. Because of shit like this, for example.
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“Cut phoniness. There are going to be certain passages that you put in simply in the hope of impressing people. It is true of me, and it is almost surely true of you. I have maybe never known a writer of whom it is not true. But literary pretension is the curse of postmodern age. We all have our favorite ways of showing off, and they rarely serve us well. When you have identified your own grandiosity, do not be kind. When Georges Simenon was an eager young wannabe in Paris, none other than Colette herself advised him that his prose was ‘too literary, always too literary.’ Thereafter, Simenon spent much of his amazing career cutting away his efforts to impress. ‘It’s what I do when I write,” he said, “the main job when I rewrite…. [I cut] every word which is there just to make an effect. Every sentence which is there just for the sentence….Cut it.”
—Stephen Koch (via diana-vilibert)
