Posted 1 week ago

Driving home from work on Mother’s Day. #rain #reflection #ttw #throughthewindow #sunset #latergram

Posted 2 weeks ago

Tonight at work. Happy Drinko de Mayo.
But these two…really, really amazing.
Tim & Rebecca, The Nouveaux Honkies.
It was a good night.

Check ‘em out here: http://tnhband.com/

Posted 2 weeks ago

"Five things everyone should know about U.S. incarceration"

‘Merica, y’all.

(Source: knowledgeequalsblackpower)

Posted 2 weeks ago
Posted 3 weeks ago
newyorker:

Postscript E.L. Konigsburg: “Konigsburg taught, in her famous novel, that “happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” She may be gone, but her books still teach that lesson.” http://nyr.kr/ZH0v2q

newyorker:

Postscript E.L. Konigsburg: “Konigsburg taught, in her famous novel, that “happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” She may be gone, but her books still teach that lesson.” http://nyr.kr/ZH0v2q

Posted 4 weeks ago

ShortFormBlog: Three media platforms targeted by a lot of second-guessing after the whole Boston thing

shortformblog:

  • CNN Already facing a bit of a tough run of it, the media outlet screwed up a major story on Wednesday—falsely reporting the arrest of suspects in the Boston bombing. The network’s John King reported the news, which appears to have been a problem of poor sourcing that befell other media outlets…

I was just making the same point earlier….let’s learn the lesson, folks.

Posted 4 weeks ago

The problem with one-night stands in locked-down Boston

usatoday:

Well, there’s a new and awkward angle. 

Indeed.

Posted 4 weeks ago

shortformblog:

nbcnews:

First person: West, my home town, is gone

(Photo: Erin Trieb for NBC News)

I learned the news about the explosion in West, Texas, the way you seem to learn everything these days - on Twitter, and then Facebook. I was actually in the middle of telling someone about West. It’s where I grew up and lived until I was 20.

Read more from NBC News Contributing Writer Zac Crain.

A stirring and emotional first-person reflection on the explosion that rocked West, Texas last week, overshadowed somewhat as it was by the Boston bombing and subsequent manhunt. It’s difficult to imagine finding out about something like this happening to your town and your neighbors on Twitter. Hard to fathom.

Posted 1 month ago

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”

The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.

The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

Roger Ebert (via sharpless)

The blame game…

(Source: yeezytaughtme)

Posted 1 month ago

cheatsheet:

The rucks were filled with Camelbacks of water, extra uniforms, Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and trauma kits. It was all just supposed to be symbolic.

Mother Jones has the story of a group of soldiers who ran the Boston Marathon wearing 40-pound packs, then saved lives

[Photo: Military Friends Foundation]

The helpers….