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Steve Kerr editorial of the day

by Henry Goldman • May 8, 2012

In a piece for Grantland, awesome white-person Steve Kerr convincingly breaks down why teenagers shouldn’t be allowed to play in the NBA. Best pull-quote:

True story: I once had an extremely young teammate ask me when our Christmas break was. He then became visibly shocked and saddened after learning that we didn’t get to go home for a week or so. Another time, a different young player asked me how the NBA’s playoff format worked. We entered the first round of the postseason and he had no idea what “best of 5″ meant. These were players who were ready to be professional athletes?

Also, all Kerr (a former GM, current TNT analyst and 15-year NBA veteran) has in his ‘author description’ is “Steve Kerr is a five-time NBA champion.” Baller.

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Wait, MTV brought 120 Minutes back?

by Henry Goldman • March 27, 2012

This may not be news to you folks with cable, but to “cordcutters” like me (translation: people who watch tv on the internet), seeing this ad for the “new” 120 Minutes in a music periodical came as a half-shock. I was initially excited that anyone even remembered the only MTV show of my youth that showcased well-curated, independent and emerging bands. And super excited to see that in reviving the brand, Viacom also brought back the host of show we grew up with; un-photogenic music nerd Matt Pinfield, who, even in the 90s, seemed like he should have been the friendly clerk at Eugene’s House of Records, not the palest MTV personality this side of Tabitha Soren. However, seeing that theshow now airs on MTV2, at 6 am on Fridays, and that Pinfield came back because he clearly has nothing going (and is probably pushing 50), made me a bit sad about everything.

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Actual creativity happens in a flash and/or while you’re drunk

by Henry Goldman • March 13, 2012

One of the things I’ve noticed since I took up blogging, years ago, for a little daily fiction site called the heartbroke daily (oh, you haven’t heard of it? booooo….) was that the best posts tended to come from a flash of inspiration and then almost wrote themselves. The ones where I had to bang my head against the desk, trying to force an idea out, were always the worst. But the ones that happened, seemingly out of nowhere, fusing a handful different influences I’d absorbed, and then poured easily out of my fingertip, we’re always the best. Well, apparently the scientific community has attempted to explain why this is generally the case for all the best, most creative ideas. According to the linked WP article, insights come in a flash, they’re not extracted by force. Also, the scientists quoted in the article make the case that you’ll have more insights when you’re drunk, which is great news for, well, drunks.

Don Draper also made the point explicit in a bit of advice to Peggy Olson, when he said, “Just think about it deeply, then forget it…then an idea will jump up in your face.” Then, he went and got super

(hat/tip, the creative peoples quorum, also the washington post, I guess)

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Don’t get drunk and play with your homemade cannon

by Henry Goldman • March 7, 2012

It may seem like a pretty obvious thing, but some people didn’t get the common sense memo, and now some lady is dead.

According to the LA Times:

The incident, which is being investigated by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, took place when the woman’s husband and another man were working on a cannon shortly after midnight outside the couple’s mobile home and it exploded, according to a Cal-Fire spokesman.

Though, I will say, building a home-made cannon is a great idea for a hobby. Just, you know, take it to a field or something.

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Like a coke dealer telling you not to do TOO much coke…

by Henry Goldman • February 24, 2012

….at a talk yesterday in Montreal, Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter was quoted as saying spending too much time on Twitter was “unhealthy.” Kind of obvious, that furiously checking other peoples statuses and updating your own isn’t the best thing for your mental health, but it’s somewhat striking to hear that Stone would admit as much. It’d be hard to imagine Steve Jobs saying you shouldn’t spend so much time on your iPhone or Mark Zuckerberg suggesting you get off FB once in a while. Hopefully, Stone doesn’t get blog-ecuted for keeping it real.

(via The Guardian)

Role Models

Anthony Shadid is my role model

by David Larson • February 21, 2012

I don’t have too many heroes, and in fact most of the ones I do have either died of drug overdoses, self inflicted gunshots or, in one case, assassination by the CIA.

Anthony Shadid may have been the only wholesome hero I ever had. He died last week in Syria, covering the ongoing unrest under the oppressive Bashar al-Assad regime. He is survived by his wife and two children. He was just 43.

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The internet DOES not control me

by Henry Goldman • February 21, 2012

This morning, my friend Eric Slatkin tweeted a very nice article from the Atlantic, which acknowledges the impossibility of completely unplugging from you digital life and then offers some solution to stay plugged in better. The article condenses a lot of common sense ideas about how to effectively ration your time online (don’t multi-task with thousands of windows open at once – one focused task at a time), which looking at it all together, is actually kind of helpful.

Reading it over, it got me thinking that some of these will be part of the future gospel of an internet-addiction support movement. It seems a safe be that in the not-too-distant, a good portion of our generation will probably have to visit support groups, to help them manage their time online, unhinge their addiction to their smartphones/computers and navigate a world where we’re required to be connected without losing themselves in the stream of updates, information and memes.

Since the late 90s, I’ve been somewhat addicted to the flow of information in new media, and if I’m gonna ween myself of it, all while pursuing a career where it’s necessary to know what’s happening online, I’m going to need to control myself. So I’m going to try to follow these.

Wish me luck.

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