•August 14, 2009 •
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A really interesting article about what looks to be a really interesting Young Adult book.
I suspect that just the fact that I say “fuck” in the book is going to upset some people. I tried to be as honest as possible, and I’m sure some people are not going to be happy about it. I hope they realize it’s more valuable to talk about these things that actually do go on than to pretend they would never happen.
I talk in the book about the research I did when I first started experimenting with marijuana. I really educated myself. I talk about the pros and cons, and I think I portray educated experimentation.
When I was in the DARE program, there was a very cartoonish characterization of drugs. Everything was bad. They showed videos of a joint and a heroin needle chasing kids around a playground. So when I saw people smoking marijuana, and they weren’t evil or violent, I came to doubt all of that information. If you teach abstinence-only sex ed and kids see that some of their experiences are contrary to what they learned, they’re going to think that everything that was taught to them was wrong. It’s dangerous to give kids half-truths.
What are your perspectives when it comes to raising kids (whether you are raising them or not?) I mean, no one wants to sit a 5-year old down and talk about how some people snort cocaine off hookers’ backs or anything, but would you rather keep your child as innocent as you can, as long as you can, or do you agree with the quote above, that children need realistic portrayals or they’re going to discard all your warnings and cautions?
Lucy and I talk about the differences in how we grew up fairly frequently; though neither of us were on the extreme logical ends of protectionism vs brutal honesty, we certainly see the good and bad in each perspective.
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•August 8, 2009 •
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You know what I like doing? I like touching up my beard with the 1/16″ guard (intended for the top of my head) instead of the 1/2″ guard.
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•August 8, 2009 •
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Is there anyone else, besides Anakin, in the long history of Star Wars who went to the Dark Side (replete with delicious cookies) and was later redeemed?
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•August 7, 2009 •
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On the walk from our office on the 5th floor of building A to the studio in building B.
G’morning!
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•August 5, 2009 •
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•August 5, 2009 •
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Tell me something interesting about you, your life, your relatives and friends, your job, your past or how your brain works. Interesting, by your definition.
Prepare to be conversed with!
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•August 4, 2009 •
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See, it’s not just that they cover your entire face. They’re unflattering. They make you (where “you” is the person with insect-eye-size eye coverings) look like you have huge cheeks stuffed with delicious nuts. Alternatively, depending on where the glasses fall, they absorb both your cheekbones and your forehead, giving you the appearance of a gaunt person without the dignity of a proper scalp.
Every time I see someone with moon-mask sunglasses who wants me to take their picture, I shudder deep inside. There is probably some way to take that picture and not make them look like a total alien, but that power is not within me.
I’m not mad. Just cut it out!
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•August 4, 2009 •
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I love the phrase, “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The idea is that people over-use familiar tools. It was rephrased at one point into, “Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” And now you understand why we’re so obsessed with the penis, yeah?
We have a tendency to favor one direction of thought, whether it is philosophical, professional, or personal. It’s part of why many people (myself included) have fairly predictable viewpoints once you get to know them – you know the tools in their toolbox, if you will.
All of the best conversations, it seems to me, happen with people who force me to let go of my favorite tools and try using another – often by example.
caadn (Scott Thom, for you Castle folk) has always been good for this, for example: if you could avoid being enraged at how he can pick apart your favorite perspective, you find yourself taking a tour with him of the various possibilities in a given discussion. He’s got a whole bag of hammers (some say in his face, but that’s not very charitable), and he forces you to widen your view or perish.
(Which, by the way, is why some people find him so maddening – if you’re so completely invested in your viewpoint that it will destroy you to have it challenged… well, the end is nigh.)
What hammer do you over-use, professionally, philosophically, or personally?
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