Friday Inspiration 296
This is such a well-paced, honest film illustrating the challenges and joy of single motherhood (video)
“One of the most gratifying sounds in sports is the whoosh of a basketball snapping the netting on a perfect swish. Take away the net and all that’s left is the unsatisfying silence of a ball pushing air molecules around as it sails through the rim. Did it even go through? Sometimes it is hard to tell. That’s why Anibal Amador, a 55-year-old former real estate agent from Manhattan, regularly dips into his own pocket to buy brand-new nets for playground rims.” Seinfeld’s iconic apartment is now a Lego set, which you can buy I have zero experience with Dungeons & Dragons, but I love this idea: “My quest was simple: I’d go hiking and camping for two days carrying all the equipment my [D&D] character carries.” If you have never had the pleasure of reading any of the McSweeney’s Reviews of New Food since they began publishing them, I don’t know, a bajillion years ago, let me recommend this one to get you started Oreos cunningly packaged as unappetizing brands to deter children and amuse adults I think this is a pretty entertaining piece of writing about Limp Bizkit, but if Limp Bizkit was/is your favorite band, you may want to skip reading it I had a great chat with Coach Claire Bartholic about running irrationally long distances on the Run to the Top Podcast last week
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10 Questions I Would Ask My Dog
Every time I talk to my mother on the phone, we do some version of the same joke. She asks about our dog, something like, “Does Rowlf know you’re having friends visit soon?” I always answer, “I told him, but he doesn’t understand English.” The other day, my friend Jenn, a Wyoming resident, mentioned that she wished she could ask her dog Murry 10 questions. Of course we can’t ask our dogs 10 questions—or we can, we just can’t expect answers from them. But what if we could? I started thinking about what I would ask Rowlf. 1. I notice you like to sniff animal feces. Like you get up super close to it, maybe even touching it with the tip of your nose. To humans, that’s kind of gross. Would you say you don’t differentiate between “good smells” and “bad smells,” and that it’s all just information gathering? 2. So, the rug: It’s literally the nicest rug we have, which I think you appreciate because it seems to be your favorite rug to lie on. So why, every time you have to vomit, do you rush over to that rug so you can throw up on it? 3. When you are asleep, which, let’s be honest, is about 60 to 70 percent of the day, and you’re dreaming, and your paws are making running motions while you sleep, are those happy dreams or not-so-happy dreams? Like are you being a hero and catching squirrels, or running from something scary? 4. Same question, but RE: when you are barking in your sleep 5. What do you think would happen if you actually caught one of those cats you are obsessed with on our walks? Because my money is on the cat, and you only seeing out of one eye the rest of your life. 6. When I get ready to leave the house and you start getting the feeling that you might not get to go with me, are you thinking “Maybe if I act in a way that makes him feel as badly as possible about leaving me, he’ll change his mind and take me,” or is it more vindictive, like “If I gotta lie here on the floor and be bored for anywhere from seven to 35 dog-hours, you are going to feel like SHIT for the exact same amount of time because you left me here”? 7. When you stand over a plant and poop on it, is that because you like pooping on plants, or you like to challenge my poop-picking-up skills? 8. Is it your interpretation that I am taking you for your walk, or would you say that you are taking me for my walk? 9. When you find some rotten old remnant of food or a piece of a dead animal on the street and you know you have maybe one or two seconds to decide whether to eat it or not, do you have any sort of process for that? Like, “Hmm, this seems suspect, and could potentially make me vomit or have diarrhea, and is possibly not food, but some sort of animal feces, maybe I should leave it alone”? Or is it kind of just “Fuck it, YOLO”? 10. Do you think I need to reply to the rest of these emails today, or should we go outside?
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My Hardware Store’s Rewards Program
who’s a loyal customer/who’s a good boy (More stuff like this on my Instagram and in my email newsletter, which you can sign up for here) The post My Hardware Store’s Rewards Program appeared first on Semi-Rad.com. Via Explore http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://thejustinmarshall.blogspot.com/2021/07/my-hardware-stores-rewards-program.html July 22, 2021 at 01:23AM
Friday Inspiration 295
I don’t understand how this video only has 28,000 views (the version on Twitter has 3.4 million) but trust me, you need this 1:40 in your life today (thanks, Anna) (video) If I were this guy, every time someone asked me “what do you do for a living?” I would show them this video. Please click “view story full screen” on this page to fully enjoy Molly Higgins’ photos from her 1977 climb of The Nose on El Capitan with Barb Eastman, the first all-female ascent of the route A wonderful essay on dogs and hope Jason Sudeikis’s life is not imitating Ted Lasso’s life, but it also kind of is I know I say a lot of things are great but these retro movie posters are really fucking great
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The Snowball Effect Of Procrastination
If you JUST decided that you MUST have this in a printed format to IMMEDIATELY gift it to someone SPECIAL to hang above their desk, it’s available in unframed and framed versions in the shop:
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Watching Movie Trailers
hope this helps someone feel seen, unlike many movies I considered last Saturday evening (More stuff like this on my Instagram and in my email newsletter, which you can sign up for here) The post Watching Movie Trailers appeared first on Semi-Rad.com. Via Explore http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://thejustinmarshall.blogspot.com/2021/07/watching-movie-trailers.html July 15, 2021 at 05:54AM
Friday Inspiration 294
I was unaware of the Great Art Explained YouTube channel until two days ago, but after this 17-minute piece on Hokusai’s The Great Wave I am a) very impressed and b) a little bit smarter (video)
You may or may not be interested in the history of the Cornish pasty, but I think this piece is worth it because of sentences like this: “In some cases, there were even stoves built into the mines to heat up the raw pasties the workers brought from home—which is to say that if you’ve ever warmed up a Hot Pocket or anything similar in a workplace microwave, you’re basically doing a historic reenactment.” I don’t know how I got sucked into this long story about “America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye” who shoots guns with the hooks he has in place of hands, but I have to say, the writing is pretty compelling. I love Mike Sowden’s newsletter, and especially this week’s, in which he dives into made-up places on maps. Probably not for everyone: I don’t think I ever quite understood dub until I watched the Lover’s Rock episode of Small Axe last winter, but now I’m hooked on this Golden Age of Dub mix on YouTube I Am “Wearing Pajamas At 7 p.m.” Years Old Mike Dunn, a producer at The List, had the idea to turn my “Hill Climbing Strategies” post from a few weeks back into a fun TV segment
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15 Useful Trail Etiquette Tips
The summer trail season is here, and you may or may not have questions about how to properly utilize America’s public lands. Questions like “Should I tip National Park rangers $10 or $20 each time they answer one of my questions?” (Answer: your call). Or “Do I have to use a hydration pack or can I just carry my water up the trail in a 5-gallon bucket?” (Answer: You can carry any size bucket you’d like). Here are a few etiquette tips that will no doubt be useful to you this season. RIGHT OF WAY RIGHT OF WAY, CONTINUED DOFFING OF CAPS PROPER CLOTHING BAGS OF SHIT ZIP-OFF PANTS CUTTING SWITCHBACKS SMOKING PASSING OTHER TRAIL USERS TREKKING POLES THE ROCKS DOUBLE AND TRIPLE WORD SCORES SORRY, IGNORE THAT LAST ONE SITTING FUCKING WITH THE TREES OUT HERE
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What Happens When I Take Off My Shirt While Running On A Hot Day
RIP gnats (More stuff like this on my Instagram and in my email newsletter, which you can sign up for here) The post What Happens When I Take Off My Shirt While Running On A Hot Day appeared first on Semi-Rad.com. Via Explore http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://thejustinmarshall.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-happens-when-i-take-off-my-shirt.html July 08, 2021 at 10:54AM
Bread Varieties At My House
we own toast tongs (More stuff like this on my Instagram) The post Bread Varieties At My House appeared first on Semi-Rad.com. Via Explore http://www.rssmix.com/via Blogger http://thejustinmarshall.blogspot.com/2021/07/bread-varieties-at-my-house.html July 07, 2021 at 12:54PM |