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  Inspiration: 1.27.2010

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  Inspiration: 10.26.2009

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  Shut it out. Get shit done. Be awesome.

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  Things I’m Loving Right This Minute

  10.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  [taken by me at Sunday brunch]
  My last two pieces I posted over at Almost Four Stars—a bit on Kid Cudi and a track review of a song that’s saved my life this summer—some of the strongest writing I’ve done lately. Brunching with friends, coffeeing off our hangovers and flinging witticisms a mile a minute. Writing [...]

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  My New Productivity Hotness

  10.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The last few weeks have been utterly crazy; so much was slipping through the cracks like so much kitty litter through the slats in the scoop [because, y'know, I'm responsible for two cats now, part-time, and the only thing stopping me from resenting the extra responsibility is that a) they're lovely creatures, really, and b) [...]

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  Inspiration: 08.17.2009

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  “I’m going to do it. And I’m going to give it as much time and love and work and cold coffee as it takes.”
  —Jay Hathaway

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  Inspiration: 6.2.2009

  06.02.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”
  -Henry David Thoreau

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  A Reiteration: Why Fashion Is Important

  05.27.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’ve touched on this before in one of my Inspiration posts, but then a couple weeks ago this happened on Britain’s Got Talent. And I think given that, it bears repeating.
  How you look matters, people. And since we’re not always at liberty to change our own height, weight, bone structure, skin condition, or disability, [...]

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  Inspiration: 05.04.2009

  05.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night Robert and I watched an amazing film about two people who fall out of love over the course of one evening:

  It was visually stunning and melancholic. I highly recommend it.
  Toward the beginning, the protagonist Giovanni tells his terminally ill friend, “I no longer have inspirations, only recollections.” Love it!
  What did [...]

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  Inspiration, 04.27.2009: Brian Eno’s oblique strategies

  04.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  [amazing image via the trial]
  I first found the Oblique Strategies decks, which are sets of cards with featuring cryptic phrases you can use to stimulate creativity, through an old edition of Questionable Content, and I fell immediately in love. I pull up the random Strategy generatoroccasionally whenever I need to change up what I’m doing [...]

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  Inspiration: 04.19.2009

  04.19.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’ve been steeping myself in Merlin lately, because since his Inbox Zero worked so well for me, I want to try his other tips and systems. And then I found this and this.
  Taken together, these two articles made me seriously reconsider what I want to do with blogging. It’s worth a read if you [...]