Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you better. It’s just an ever-deepening, creepy-ass trap; a trap that is a huge moneymaker for corporations that do not have and never will have good intentions. You’re not disgusting. You’re not freakish. You’re not ugly. And you’re never going to be perfect. And holy shit, that is so okay.
1. Burn your bridges. I was conscious of the fact that I would never get a chance to publish under Godin’s Domino Project again. I knew that if I screwed it up, I was done. You do your best work with your back against the wall, when…
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced an agreement to sell the team to a group that includes Magic Johnson. - WSJ, MLB.comvia NBCSports
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Preppy Jet-setter
Imagine the billionaire founder of a major American corporation suddenly waltzing away from his executive duties to spend the rest of his days as a glorified sex tourist, trolling the dives and brothels of Vietnam and the Philippines for pubescent girls.
Hard to picture, right? Yet that is exactly the story that James D. Scurlock tells in his terrific new book, “King Larry: The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius” (Scribner).
The billionaire in question is one you may have never heard of: Larry Hillblom, better known as the “H” in DHL, the shipping company. He rose fast, lived hard, lived harder, lived a little creepily, then really creepily, and then died, kind of mysteriously, in a plane crash off of Saipan in 1995.
Tina Fey “bows reverently before the fake ashes of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, dispursed by Sacha Baron Cohen” on the red carpet at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26, 2012
*Tina Fey is a fucking rockstar
At some point in my life, I need to have a drink with her. I think there would be some real chemistry aha
About 100 dancers descended on New York’s Times Square for a “Soul Train” flash mob to pay tribute to the show’s late creator, Don Cornelius. Cornelius, 75, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday. -The AP
Daily chart: global abortion rates. Having fallen precipitously during the 1990s, the global abortion rate has now stalled, according to a new paper. In some parts of the world, the number of abortions termed as “unsafe” is on the rise. Laws that restrict abortion did not seem to lower the number of procedures—on the contrary, restrictive laws were associated with higher abortion rates.
