Our picture of what is normal isn’t true to how most of us actually are. The brilliance of Leo Tolstoy as a writer can be primarily […]
Missing the point: Statues pt.2: More stupid statues – Why does this one of Henry David Thoreau exist? (And actually… hang on, wait. Look at it. He’s actually asking the same question.)
(The following is from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, and the part is almost in its entirety because a) it kicks ass and b) could be my […]
The philosophy of: William Shakespeare
The aphoristic, short, sharp and punchy style of writing that makes so much of Shakespeare’s writing meaningful and powerful is something he shared with the […]
Thoreau was shit at maths
I forgot what he said exactly but Henry David Thoreau said that wood is the gift that gives warmth twice –once when you chop it […]
The first blogpost about one of my blogposts: Joshua Spodek
Joshua Spodek wrote the best-selling Leadership Step by Step and his blog’s one of the three sites I check every day¹: We’ve all got something we want […]
This is better than all the good things on the internet put together and then multiplied by 8
Here are some palindromes¹: • ‘Are Mac ‘n’ Oliver ever evil on camera?’ • ‘Dammit, I’m mad!’ and: • ‘Desserts, sis? (sensuousness is stressed).’ Now, […]
4 people who motivated me to write 100 posts in 100 days (after 0 in the previous 1261)
A couple weeks ago, I made it to 100 written and published posts in the first 100 straight days of this blog (it’s 120 in 119 now). […]
Kate Nash and Mallrat – Jamaican me smile
Think of a common and realistic love story. One where boy meets girl. Girl likes boy (a bit). Boy really likes girl. Boy gets awkward. […]
The two worst words in the English language
The words ‘I’m’ and ‘bored’, when put together in that exact order, make up my most hated expression in the English language. (Sidenote: This is what it translates […]
I’m not cool
Occasionally I’ve done things which could be seen as cool. And other times I do things which are nerdy. I care less about that now […]