What else should I be?
All apologies.
What else should I say?
Everyone is gay.
What else should I write?
I don’t have the right.
What else should I be?
All Apologies.
MTVmusic.com is the greatest timesink ever invented. And Nirvana? I miss em.
In all my years, I’ll never understand why good men and women are taken from us just about when we need them the most. Dean Barnett was a Boston native and a fantastic writer – a conservative blogger at that. He passed away the other day from Cystic Fibrosis at the young age of 41.
I didn’t know of Dean’s blog when I was living in Boston, I had only heard him subbing for Hugh Hewitt on the radio in the last few years – after I moved to Minnesota.
James Lileks, who also appears on Hewitt’s show from time to time, penned this tribute:
You know what’s odd? I have no idea what he looked like. I have an idea, but it’s probably wrong. Again with the saccharine notion of the afterlife with the clouds and the wings and the harp: Dean walks up behind people and shouts “CHOWDAH,” and we know right away who it is. Whoever is standing there when we turn around, that’s him. The plucky smart kid with the fatal disease.
I’ve been hearing his voice in my head all night, frankly. Hard to forget. Why would you?
And his close friend, Hugh Hewitt, also writes:
Had he had more time, he would have been one of the great influences on the GOP for as long as he lived, probably because he valued and used every minute he had.
Dean told me early in our friendship that his disease had forced him to deal with the possibility of living too short a life and that he thus threw himself into everything. This ferocious desire to live well and fully is what I will always tell people marked Dean Barnett.
We all go, eventually… and some of us cross that river far too early in life. But not everyone takes the chance to really live..
As you can tell, making several changes here to the overall look and feel of the blog.. I’m still not happy with where things are at — but if I’m going to live up to my promise and try to blog more often – and more transparently – I’m going to need to be happy with the look & feel of the blog.
Chartreuse has long been one of my favorite bloggers – his photograph laden posts read like a visual form of poetry. Even though he posts much rarer today than he did a few years back, I’ve been enjoying his occasional post — I think he has one of the most interesting views on Web 2.0 and the state of the world today.
In his post from earlier this week, Chartreuse talks about Lessons for Upper Management from INXS:
These are turbulent times. And despite what some people think, it ain’t going away soon.
Your company needs to be careful about the assumptions it makes.
You should be listening carefully not just during the bad times but doing the good times as well. And stick to your core beliefs.
If you do the hard times won’t come as such a surprise.
In a world of Black Swans preparing for the unexpected is…expected.
Now INXS was one of my favorite bands, so of course I’m going to check this one out.. but I actually enjoyed this post (and his previous post The Layman’s Guide to the End of the World (part one)) so much that I sent both of them to my team at work.
I’ve been greatly enjoying the series Mad Men over the past few months – watched all of Season 1 and then caught up with as much of Season 2 as I could watch…
Mark Simonson does a great job of running down the props and typefaces used on the show.
If you’ve not watched it, Mad Men has a great look & feel to it… and the story / characters are awesome!
I’m a long time Apple fanboy, writing this post on a 17″ Macbook Pro and a 30″ Cinema Display — but Redmonk’s look at the Information Worker’s Mac Switch List reminds me of how much I still don’t know.
Well worth the read for the new mac user.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune actually endorsed Norm Coleman…. I was pleasantly suprised….