Category: talent

“His thoughts and feelings were padlocked, completely padlocked in his mind, and when he talked, most of the time, instead of expressing them he was using words to prevent himself from letting them out, fooling people by putting into their minds a picture of himself that was not at all Studs Lonigan.” –Studs Lonigan by…
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July 5, 2012 0

Why not You?

If nothing else, if I could get all my clients/humans everywhere to understand that perfection is one of the biggest time-wasters… I’d be (somewhat) satisfied. And I say this as a former anorexic, so I know all about how damaging the search for perfection can really be. I’m thinking about perfection—and how boring it is—because…
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March 22, 2012 0

Patti Smith is like your super cool, eccentric, “fun” aunt. The one who, when you were a kid, maybe you sort of took her and her fun stories, for granted, you didn’t really appreciate her… and then one day, after you’d grown up, you truly saw her for the first time and: “…she’s my aunt?? She’s amazing!…
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December 3, 2011 0

So, I recently watched Gomorrah http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929425/ (I know, I know, the movie’s from 2008 and I’m just discussing it. Next week this new film called, Star Wars, and why light-sabers are kewl! But listen: being self-employed means 1) I’m always working, dammit, and 2) when I get to watch a movie, I kind of need to turn…
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August 22, 2011 0