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via Jarrod Trainque.

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To me minimalism is not getting rid of all your possessions just to say “look I am a minimalist, I live with 1 tshirt and 1 meal a week”.

To me minimalism is not having cheap things so that I can say “look I don’t spend money because I am a minimalist and I live with nothing”

To me minimalism...

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Love my husband Erik's new drawing. The colors are awesome.

Southern Gentleman

For some reason this took me a very long time to draw.

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Equal Opportunity Vs. Affirmative Action

Can you really be equal opportunity and affirmative action at the same time? Aren't they a bit, uh, opposing? If you really offer equal opportunities, you don't need to take affirmative action. Right.

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“The only difference between an audience and a community is how you face the chairs.” -Chris Brogan

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I don’t try to be prophetic, as I don’t sit down to write literature. It is simply this: a writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

James Baldwin (via austinkleon)

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What Your 16-Hour Workday Says About You!

You’re a really hard worker

Your time is poorly managed

You don’t know what to do with your life

Your boss knows you’re gullible

At least 40% of your diet consists of pre-packaged food

You send out work emails at inappropriate hours

You have no perspective on life

You don’t sleep enough for proper brain function

You have very little self-respect

Your salary should be higher, but isn’t

You drink either too much or not enough 

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I Don't Hardly Know Her, But I Think I Could Love Her

There isn't anything in the world that can't be turned into something interesting. Give me a challenge and I'm excited. There's nothing I can't learn. There's nothing you can't teach me. There's nothing I don't want to know. I want to push my limits. Feel my strength. Be filled up. Take the hard way out. Get excited. Tear things up in a fury of flames and heat and smoke and build something else. See differently. Do it new. Kick ass. Let the bullshit slide away and hone in on one single molecule till it explodes in a flash of light and another molecule takes its place. Throw out the standard and make a new one.  What else is there? Stagnation? Lingering? Drifting away? Bumbling around with our widgets and egos and chores? Laundry? Staring at this and that? I want to scream into space until the whole universe gets filled up and droned out.  I don't want to toil away doing something I'm good at. I want to do what I suck at, get good and then do something else I suck at. Give me something to suck at so I can chew the shit out of it and spit it back into the fire. Inspire me. Challenge me. Doubt me. See what you get. 

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“Where the heck were you when the page was blank?”

Copywriter Paul Butterworth on critics (via)

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If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. So maybe it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here. Like… the public.

George Carlin, our era’s most perceptive political commentator, disguised as a comedian. (via marco)

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This is kind of huge — even though the data only covers November so far. (And it turns out that you only get the most recent 4 weeks for free — the rest requires you to go through Nielsen.)