Rick Powell
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Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
Rick Powell
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what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comI would still want the option of a pint or a glass of wine or a cocktail. One per person per night. :-)
Hate is the back of the mirror, without which you would just have a piece of glass. “It can be positive,” Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys wrote in a terrific 1992 polemic on the virtues of hate. “It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about… To hate a lot of things is tantamount to really
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Re: That idio on Reddit who said that he would gladly leave all the two and one-star movies to us, if he could only he see the good ones. How that would work, I don’t know. I had commented that seeing bad movies helps hone your judgment.
Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately... See more
Youyang Gu • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
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FEW THINGS ARE more mysterious than someone else’s favorite film. To hear it named is to be puzzled. You appreciate its merits but not how it can be preferable to all others. Perhaps your favorite film isn’t the one that you like best but the one that likes you best. It confirms you on first encounter, and goes on to shape you in some irreversible
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He compares modern sitcoms to gin during the Industrial Revolution. People didn’t know what to do with their lives, so they drank and drank and drank. Now, they watch and watch and watch.
mail.zoho.com • Friday Finds (McLuhan, Marketing, Sitcoms, and Hobby Tribes) - Zoho Mail (rick@inglesimpactante.com)
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