Overcoming Writers Block: Tickling the Muse II
In last year’s TED Talk speech the author of Eat, Pray, Love explains how she is able to handle the terrible pressure to make something genius after having a huge breakout bestseller. Her solution is...
View ArticleRIP Gil Scott-Heron
There was a time in my life when I only wanted to listen to political music. It was then that someone passed along to me a cassette of Gil Scott-Heron. This was around 1999; tape players were already...
View ArticleCrazy San Francisco: Adults Race Big Wheels Trikes Down the Curviest Street...
Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the “curviest in America,” but city residents know that’s a big lie. Vermont Street in Potrero Hill is the curviest street in San Francisco, and therefore...
View ArticleRIP Maurice Sendak, Author of Where the Wild Things Are
If you were born in the 80s or any time thereafter, you probably loved Where the Wild Things Are when you were a child. Which means today is a sad day for you. Did you know Maurice Sendak was gay? And...
View ArticleFinal Janis Joplin Interview, Animated (Five-Minute Video)
I just had to share this charming animated short of Janis Joplin’s final interview. It addresses some of the criticism she got from feminists of the time. She says, “You are what you settle for. You’re...
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