Monday, September 10, 2012
On message
We have seen and heard a couple of good messages that have fired our creative engines recently. One is the Lil Wayne's speech in the embedded video below, the other is behind this link. (R-rated, although safe for work.)
Lil Wayne's soliloquy is in a commercial. The other meme is most definitely amateur. Is there an irony implicit in that? How much space is there between them? Is the medium the message? And if so, has advertising devoured our culture?
Lil Wayne's soliloquy is in a commercial. The other meme is most definitely amateur. Is there an irony implicit in that? How much space is there between them? Is the medium the message? And if so, has advertising devoured our culture?
Labels: Pop Culture, Sayings, thought
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Happiness
Monday, March 05, 2012
More Teen Twitter Wisdom
Little shouts out of teen Twitter wisdom. Real quotes from real teens.
A boy tells you everything is gonna be okay. A man makes everything okay.---Morgan
Why do I feel safe under blankets? Its not like a murderer will come in thinking "I'm gonna kill...ahh shit! She's under a blanket."---Kelsey
love is a trip, but fucking is a sport---Taylor (Yes, a different one)
All quotes, with original spelling and punctuation, are directly from real Twitter accounts and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Clarion Content.
A boy tells you everything is gonna be okay. A man makes everything okay.---Morgan
Why do I feel safe under blankets? Its not like a murderer will come in thinking "I'm gonna kill...ahh shit! She's under a blanket."---Kelsey
love is a trip, but fucking is a sport---Taylor (Yes, a different one)
All quotes, with original spelling and punctuation, are directly from real Twitter accounts and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Clarion Content.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pithy F*rging Sayings (20th edit.)
Welcome to our latest edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity. Check out old sayings posts here, scan down past this post for more.
As always, the citation herein of these quotes does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"Everything I eat is from the earth, right?
I am what I eat, straight up earth, right?
nothing but a walking sack of earth, nice to meet you
how do you do, guess what, yeah your one too."---311
"Unity is a crucial source of awareness for me: it is the foundation of empathy and connectedness; it is the principle that expresses the integrity of existence."---Marcia Falk
"The essential claim of the fundamentalist is that he knows the truth."
---Andrew Sullivan
Labels: Sayings
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Teen Twitter Wisdom
Little shouts out of teen Twitter wisdom. Real quotes from real teens.
Making out in college is the equivalent of a handshake.---Morgan
i h8 when my dad doesn't call me back/ answer my texts. uhm hello what if i was dying? #cool #realcool---Hailey
May your finals be as easy as you are #ExamWeek---Hannah
All quotes are directly from real Twitter accounts and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Clarion Content.
Making out in college is the equivalent of a handshake.---Morgan
i h8 when my dad doesn't call me back/ answer my texts. uhm hello what if i was dying? #cool #realcool---Hailey
May your finals be as easy as you are #ExamWeek---Hannah
All quotes are directly from real Twitter accounts and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Clarion Content.
Labels: Pop Culture, Sayings, twitter
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Twitter wisdom
Little shouts out of Twitter wisdom.
Firstly, from a music blogger we like, Lydia Simmons, "You must master your rage, or rage will become your master."
Ms. Simmons runs Sunset in the Rearview.
The other is from a Twitter feed called Eastern Health citing Carl Jung, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Firstly, from a music blogger we like, Lydia Simmons, "You must master your rage, or rage will become your master."
Ms. Simmons runs Sunset in the Rearview.
The other is from a Twitter feed called Eastern Health citing Carl Jung, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Pithy F*rging Sayings (19th edit.)
Welcome to our latest edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always, the citation herein of these quotes and dialogues does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"You can only fuck up if you look yourself in the eye the morning after you've done something and you know in your heart the reason you did it was completely against your gut instinct and principles."---Piers Morgan
"G-d loves irony."---staff
"Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory...Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in any given industry, would be both more and less than people."---William Gibson, from his award winning novel Neuromancer
"Good fiction is like holding your head under water. You can hear nothing of what is going on above the surface."---staff
Labels: Sayings
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Klosterman IV
Cultural insight from Chuck Klosterman from his book Klosterman IV
American culture is... obsessed with health. We are obsessed with pleasure. We are obsessed with speed. We are obsessed with efficiency. In simplest terms, we are obsessed by the desire to accelerate every element of our existence in a futile attempt to experience as much life as we can in the shortest possible time. We have all entered in a race to devour the largest volume of gratification before it kills us.
American culture is... obsessed with health. We are obsessed with pleasure. We are obsessed with speed. We are obsessed with efficiency. In simplest terms, we are obsessed by the desire to accelerate every element of our existence in a futile attempt to experience as much life as we can in the shortest possible time. We have all entered in a race to devour the largest volume of gratification before it kills us.
Monday, May 09, 2011
Pithy F*rging Sayings (18th edit.)
Welcome to our latest edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always the citation of these sayings, quotes and dialogues does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"Perhaps then the old trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply the dressed-up, worn-out formula we thought… If the crowns of these three trees meet, and if the too obvious, too straight sprouts of Truth and Goodness have been knocked down, cut off, not let grow, perhaps the whimsical, unpredictable, unexpected branches of Beauty will work their way through, rise up to that very place, and thus complete the work of all three?"---Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The plural of anecdote is not data."---The MEP Report
"Resist the urge to use capitalization as emphasis."---Staff
"Do not accept what you cannot change. Change what you cannot accept."---source disputed
Labels: Practical Advice, Sayings
Monday, May 02, 2011
Taste
It is not that there is no accounting for taste, it is that there is no holding anyone to account for their taste.
Labels: Practical Advice, Sayings
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Seen on Twitter today
Here are a couple of the fun and funny things that have crossed our Twitterscape today.
"Housewives experience the highest rate of sexual harassment in the workplace."
---Kelly Oxford
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments."
"Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman."
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
---Al Bergette
"To be hated for what I am is better than to be loved for something I am not."
---Girls & Her Deals of NYC
Labels: Pop Culture, Practical Advice, Sayings, twitter
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Wisdom of Kelly Oxford
"Adulthood is the moment you switch from taking the occasional drug to trip out, to taking the occasional drug to feel normal."---Kelly Oxford
Labels: humor, Pop Culture, Practical Advice, Sayings, thought
Friday, December 24, 2010
That's what's up
Voltaire, he knew what was up.
"I shall never cease...to preach tolerance from the housetops...until persecution is no more. The progress of reason is slow, the roots of prejudice lie deep."Of course, he would have had to cut it down a little to make it a tweet.
Labels: political quips-n-quotes, Sayings
Friday, September 24, 2010
Transformation Newark?
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ---Goethe
This from the Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker's Twitter account, this morning shortly before New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Booker announced the launching of the Partnership for Education in Newark, an unprecedented commitment to improve public education. Zuckerburg made his commitment to the tune of $100 million dollars. The announcement came on Oprah. Where else?
Mayor Booker (on the left), a man who is doing great things already...
Now not all of that money will be heading to Newark, rather Newark will be a national model for the foundation Zuckerberg is creating with his gift, Startup: Education. Its first project will be Newark. It criterion is "to measurably improve academic achievement for Newark students and based on clear standards and metrics reward excellence in teaching, school leadership and student achievement."
Mayor Booker, a Democrat was authorized by the Governor, a Republican, to work with Zuckerberg to transform the status quo. The Newark Public School District, with a student population of more than 40,000, is the largest school system in New Jersey, in 2008-2009, only 54 percent of high school students graduated and just 38 percent enrolled in college.
America can and should do better.
Read more here.
This from the Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker's Twitter account, this morning shortly before New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Booker announced the launching of the Partnership for Education in Newark, an unprecedented commitment to improve public education. Zuckerburg made his commitment to the tune of $100 million dollars. The announcement came on Oprah. Where else?
Mayor Booker (on the left), a man who is doing great things already...
Now not all of that money will be heading to Newark, rather Newark will be a national model for the foundation Zuckerberg is creating with his gift, Startup: Education. Its first project will be Newark. It criterion is "to measurably improve academic achievement for Newark students and based on clear standards and metrics reward excellence in teaching, school leadership and student achievement."
Mayor Booker, a Democrat was authorized by the Governor, a Republican, to work with Zuckerberg to transform the status quo. The Newark Public School District, with a student population of more than 40,000, is the largest school system in New Jersey, in 2008-2009, only 54 percent of high school students graduated and just 38 percent enrolled in college.
America can and should do better.
Read more here.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Pithy F*rging Sayings (17th and 1/2 edit.)
Welcome to our latest edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always the citation of these sayings, quotes and dialogues does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
We are grateful to Guy Kawasaki's book The Macintosh Way as our source for these quotes.
"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."---Fran Lebowitz
"The better the advertisement, the worse the product."---J. Gordon Holt
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they have seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."---Brendan Behan
"If you would like to know what the Lord God thinks of money, you only have to look at those to whom he gives it."---Maurice Baring
Labels: Sayings
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Pithy F*rging Sayings (17th edit.)
Welcome to our 17th edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity. Eighteen is always a big one, and the next go round of PFS will probably happen after the big remodeling of this site.
As always the citation of these sayings, quotes and dialogues does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"The people are at such a low stage of moral and rational development, that it's obvious they're bound to oppose everything that's strange to them...
But how are we to educate the people?
To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools...
But how do schools help matters?
They give the peasants fresh wants."---Leo Tolstoy
"We are at the same time spectators and actors in the great drama of nature."---Niels Bohr
"It is clear that knowledge of what is, does not open the door directly to what should be."---Albert Einstein
"Nature in the form of man begins to recognize itself."---Victor Weiskopf
"It comes down to the same thing as when I was a kid. Can I create a character that will make her happy, that will make her laugh?"---Tom Cruise
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Pithy F*rging Sayings (16th edit.)
Welcome to our 16th edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always the citation of these sayings does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"The rule of law must not be used a rationale to maintain an existing [social] order of oppression."---staff
"Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias. This is inevitable as well as enjoyable. All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation..."---E.B. White
"There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--- that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till night-time; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life."---Leo Tolstoy
"Entropy I believe in, I can see the visible signs on my body."---staff
"I learned from being around boxers that one night of drinking cancels out two weeks of working out."---Carlton Mitchell
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Labels: Sayings
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Pithy F*rging Sayings (15th edit.)
Welcome to our 15th edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always the citation of these sayings does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"Even good things can be messed up by bad timing."---staff
"I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?"---Vikas Swarup
"Land grows everything that the man knows."---LiLa
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Labels: Sayings
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Food for thought
One of our editors ran across this delightful Einstein quote in an article in the New York Times about the restart, scheduled for December in Switzerland, of the Large Hadron Collider.
"For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion."---Albert Einstein
Labels: Sayings, science, thought
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Pithy F*rging Sayings (14th edit.)
Welcome to our 14th edition of Pithy F*rging Sayings gathered from the singularity.
As always the citation of these sayings does not necessarily imply endorsement, the goal is to provoke thought.
"When comparing stars of different eras it is safest to rank the newest idol the greatest, for that way one can always be assured of voting with the majority."---Walter Vosburgh
"Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice make perfect."---old coach on Fox Sports Radio
"People who stand on ceremony about their job description and its limits are ultimately losers, not leaders."---staff
"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."---Groucho Marx
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Labels: Practical Advice, Sayings
