If I had been a garbageman, I would have picked up more trash quicker and neater than anyone else ever had. If I’d been a reporter who got the chance to spend the day with Muhammed Ali, before I came to the interview, I would have thought long and hard about Ali the other reporters who had interviewed him before me. I would have reviewed all of their stories so that I could get a different perspective.
(from The Soul of a Butterfly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcb6REtkhug
I think it was Mr. Hoke, my 11th grade English teacher, who gave me the advice that I shouldn’t die on a Friday; you’re too late to make the Friday edition of the paper, and no one will notice you’re gone once Monday rolls around.
As an example, note that today’s big story is the death of Stuart Scott, but if you dig back through your feeds, you’ll see that we also lost a country music legend in the form of Little Jimmy Dickens. While “Bird Of Paradise” is probably his best known song, I was always partial to “Old Cold Tater”
At 6.4%, this is the current Tibbs lightweight, but it’s a nice beer. It’s nice and sweet with a little bit of hop bitterness to balance it out. Something in it is coming across a little sour, which makes me think something with the yeast went a little wonky, but still a nice beer.
The top 10 artists I listened to this week:
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Sunrise: January 04, 2015 at 08:09AM
Sunset: January 04, 2015 at 05:21PM
Today’s High: 33F
Today’s Low: 9F
The snow has started here again in Kalamazoo, and it looks like there could actually be some accumulation. I can feel the cabin fever beginning to set in already.
For now, I’m hunkered down in the basement watching Arsenal play in the third round of the FA Cup. Mertesacker has put in a header to put us ahead, but I would be less anxious with another one.
One of the things that I was hoping to accomplish with the new blog seems somewhat counter intuitive: I want to use it to disengage a little from social media. It’s probably messed up logic, but in looking at setting this all up and trying to figure out where I want to post and interact, I realized that probably 90% of the content I see on facebook is shit that I have zero interest in. Sure, a lot of the links that show up in my feed are entertaining, but there’s a difference between being entertained and being engaged.
So I tweaked out my facebook settings a bit so that when someone wants to interact with me I get a notification, otherwise, I pretty much have no reason to log in to them at all.