October 2009
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Take out the earpiece if ur not using it.
It’s truly amazing that we can meet people who live in different parts of the world and develop bonofide friendships with them without ever having met them in person. It’s remarkable that we can know these people so much more intimately than we do our own neighbors.
It’s also pretty sad.
Our cell phones are our best friends. We’re never alone. We can walk into any bar...
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Force them to have an opinion about u
Have you ever been inside a talent agency/modeling agency/casting agency? If so, then you’re aware of the thousands upon thousands of headshots they have representing every possible character: Hot girl, Old man, Fat kid, Foreign dude, Bad guy, etc.
I’ve cast people in videos and tv shows and in each casting session I’ve made choices based on the same criteria. It all starts the...
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Reading the manual
I never read anything as a kid. It was all about pictures for me. If I couldn’t figure out how to make something work, I’d ASK someone to help. And if that didn’t work, I’d just find something else to play with.
Years later I find myself very different, yet very much the same. I love to read. I have 6 books currently atop my nightstand that I’m “in the middle...
January 2009
1 post
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December 2008
2 posts
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U need to know BEFORE the data comes out.
Have you ever heard the results of a study and asked yourself why in the heck someone felt the need to even conduct such a study? Something like, three researchers at Oxford University have concluded that child obesity is caused by kids eating more junk food and exercising less.
Really? Is that why?? We needed researchers to conclude that for us?
Okay, to be clear, I actually do understand the...
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Wants vs Needs
A strange thing is happening in America. For the first time in as far as I can remember, it appears as though we are getting some of our priorities straight.
I was listening to the news in my car recently and there was a local story here in Los Angeles about a program that the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept has run the last three years during the holiday shopping season called, Gifts for Guns....