Ascending Coherence
Things I'm thinking about while waiting for Fourier to come into vogue.
12/13/09 Pearls Before Swine
12/18/09 Ziggy
In case you aren’t up on your comics reading.
Here are some expert tips on how to conquer small talk - actually learn to enjoy it - and navigate tricky talk encounters.
THE QUIET TALKER
Signature trait: You find yourself nodding, but you’re not sure what’s being said.
How to deal: “Ask the person to speak up,” says author, life coach and columnist Harriette Cole.
” - This is from a McClatchy-Tribune News Service article on how to make small talk which appeared in the News-Observer this week. It was so astute I just had to share. Harriette Cole is really onto something here.“What’s So Different” by Ginuwine
In case you, like me, sometimes have the thought, “what was that song in the ’90s that sampled a dinosaur screech? Dang, what was it??”
A carol from The Bosses’ Songbook: Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent, published in 1959.
via Field Trip South
Great Moments in Music Video Casting
I love this track, it almost made it on my best of the ’00s mix. It’s a standard jealousy-in-the-club video elevated by the sublime casting of Robin Givens. Perfect.
Great Moments in Music Video Casting
This songs is pretty blah, but how can you resist Lark Voorhies cast in some weird Man in the Iron Mask situation? You can’t.
Now that’s an interview! Simon Hattenstone sits down with George Michael in the Guardian:
“As if Bono gives a shit what I do with my private life… Elton just needs to shut his mouth and get on with his own life. Look, if people choose to believe that I’m sitting here in my ivory tower, Howard Hughesing myself with long fingernails and loads of drugs, then I can’t do anything about that, can I?”
How did I live before The Woods came out? I can’t remember.
