Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Coffee break
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Quotes
Coffee grounds
i’m orange peels. i’m coffee grounds. i’m wisdom.
Marjory The Trash Heap, Fraggle Rock, Season 1, Episode 1
Templated magazine articles
What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?
The Death Of The Blog Post – Smashing Magazine1 (via fluffynotes)
NOTES:
1) Vitaly Friedman, Nov 19, 2009, “The Death Of The Blog Post,” Smashing Magazine, accessed April 29, 2026, https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/the-death-of-the-blog-post/
Don’t edit yourself
Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.
Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.
(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)
Ethics, not morality
Christians should not talk so much about “morality,” a word derived from mores, the beliefs of a particular tribe. Ethics, however, are based on ideas that are true at all times and in all cultures.
what if our homes were places… of hospitality
what if our homes were places not where you retreat from the big bad world but what if they were places of hospitality where we welcome people in and we share life with them and we ask them about their hopes and dreams and… their failures?
kurt hannah
Screen Addiction
Even when we try to avoid looking at screens, our eyes are naturally drawn to their flickering lights. The dazzling special effects of our iPhones and our video games stimulate our brains more powerfully than reality. Given the option of looking at the slow pace of nature unfold or the frenetic speed of a big budget movie playing on a tiny screen, we often choose the screen. […] Our visual addiction is masking our fear of feeling existence to its fullest.
Screen Addiction, Adbusters (via somethingchanged) (via jomc)
Good books are truer than reality
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
Theory versus practice
Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem.
“Show or Tell: Should creative writing be taught?” by Louis Menand in The New Yorker (via somethingchanged)
the creative class
… the people of the creative class are fairly certain they are destined to be creative, but can never be certain about just how creative they are. So they must seek outward signs of their blessed inner superiority, must seek or contrive recognition for their creativity whenever possible. This is that class’s essential self-consciousness, and when it is acute, it becomes hipsterism.
“Creative writing and crippling self-consciousness,” Marginal Utility (via somethingchanged)
mutually assured humiliation
Young people may regret tomorrow what they make public today but I think we will all be protected by the doctrine of mutually assured humiliation (I won’t dig up your college-party picture if you don’t dig up mine).
Jeff Jarvis, “Openness and the Internet,” BusinessWeek (via somethingchanged)
America is not a Christian nation
America is no longer a Christian nation… that seems to be the top phrase for some politicians today, even with nearly 4 out of every 5 Americans claiming to be a Christian. And of course in Britain, Richard Dawkins helped support a wide-spread advertising campaign on buses, stating there’s “probably no God,” even though a recent census stated that nearly 70% of Britains claimed to be Christians.
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language matters… language is not merely descriptive. it’s creative.
Reading the dictionary
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
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Don’t take poets seriously
We don’t take [poets] seriously; we don’t think that poetry can move people to do passionate things. But poets did. Poets could change cultures. Before there was so much contest for people’s attention, poets were the ones who literally brought the news from one place to another, walking from town to town, which is how we got everything to be iambic and memorable and rhymed and metered, because the tradition was oral before it was literary.
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dullness has its virtue…
the economist, the week ahead podcast
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Can’t rain all the time…
eric draven
You’re a car
RT @ashevilleraised: RT @h0zae: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. (overheard)
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every day is exactly the same
every day is exactly the same
there is no love here and there is no pain
every day is exactly the same
i’m writing on a little piece of paper
i’m hoping someday you might find
well i’ll hide it behind something
they won’t look behind
i’m still inside here…
every day is exactly the same, tried to escape the last song’s addictive quality only to have this nine inch nails song lodged between my ears… & on repeat…
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you got the most
but nobody loves you
nobody has to
just because
just because
just because, i’ve gotta jane’s addiction song stuck in my head
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RT @justincherry: “the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” – Tim Keller
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RT @scottkauffmann: TK at #GCI: You have to deconstruct legalism in the church or non-Christians won’t know u r offering something different
counter culture always becomes the culture
it’s a mature brand… the counter culture always becomes the culture… i don’t know if [rolling stone] is irrelevant… they’re still in business… they sell more than million copies…
music journalist, kurt loder [in this video] — regarding current rolling stone versus the old rolling stone
“One person’s ‘accessible’ is another’s ‘crass commercialism.'”
What people are really saying when they talk about work as accessible, is that it won’t be making many (if any) demands upon the reader.
—John Gallaher1
NOTE:
1) John Gallaher, “Accessibilty or Crass Commercialism?,” June 16, 2009, Nothing to Say & Saying It, accessed June 19, 2009, https://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2009/06/accessibilty-or-crass-commercialism.html
Coffeehouse Junkie 