Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 197
May 17, 2011
aimee-b-loved:
think4yourself:
A protester dumped a bunch of...
A protester dumped a bunch of glitter on Newt Gingrich and his wife tonight at a book-signing in Minneapolis. The man approached the couple during the event at a downtown Minneapolis hotel and showered the rainbow-colored confetti on the pair. He then yelled, "stop the hate" and "feel the rainbow," presumably a nod to gay rights. Liberal activist Robert Erickson appears to behind the shimmery mess.
(via The Last Word - Newt Gingrich hit with glitter!)
OH. MY. YES.
The theory of quality wrestling
This essay is the first of three about the issue of determining quality wrestling performances. It is my belief that the contemporary way wrestling journalists grade wrestling matches is broken, antiquated, and never really worked in the first place. Over the next three articles, I'm going to explain my case.
This first article, The Theory of Quality Wrestling, will discuss how I believe a wrestling match should be judged in theory. The following two articles will go into detail how I find the current system to be unsatisfactory, as well as a practical replacement.
I fully expect this idea to fall on deaf ears, but man would it be nice to be able to replace the awful way we grade the quality of wrestling matches.
May 16, 2011
"No tool will make you and no tool will stop you."
- Patrick Rhone
"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating...
"A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for."
-W.C. Fields
May 15, 2011
"I find it difficult to fully engage any text unless I have the option of throwing it across the..."
- Peter, the first commenter in this awesome post about digital reading.
borninflames:
Saul Williams, from the zine "Excuse Me, Can You...
Saul Williams, from the zine "Excuse Me, Can You Please Pass the Privilege?" — click the link to download, the whole thing is a fucking great read. And thanks to garconniere's reblog which pointed me thataway!
May 14, 2011
Aggressive Reading #2
Once a week, I'm going to list a few good reads that fit within the realm of what I'm trying to do here. If you've got Instapaper, follow me (ksawyerpaul) and you'll get a lot of these early, along with a bunch of others, because Instapaper is the thing I use most on the internet (shocking).
Aggressive Reading #2:
The Tao of War Photography by Bruce Haley (travel journalism):
If a rebel commander asks whether you would like to be buried in his country or your own, he might very well be serious and not just testing your resolve.
Aggregation Killed the Journalism Star by Aliza Salario (journalism):
I've embraced the change, but I don't always feel an evolving media model embraces journalists. Despite the fact we have scores of citizen journalists who can contribute to information gathering (which is all and all a good thing), we've conflated content farming with bona fide journalism—thoroughly reported, exhaustively researched, well written, fact-checked, copy edited, the whole nine.
23 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through Media by jcurcio (brainwashing)
Condition people to being bombarded with hundreds of thousands of signals a day. Teach them to attend to this stream of information and to call it Reality. Never let them ask what "reality" is.
Follow Me, Follow You on Twitter by Ben Brooks (rant):
While writing this post I stopped and did the tedious task of pruning my list of people that I follow, I went from 276 to 199 (probably even less by the time you read this). If I unfollowed you, I am sorry, but it shouldn't matter to you. This has nothing to do with whether I like you, or deem you "worthy" — it has everything to do with what interests me. I like people that tweet certain things, you just may not fit that group.
All my girlfriends die from the plague: A boy's lament from the Dark (teen) ages by Abbey Fenbert (humour):
Two days later, Agnes died. That's right, God. Remember Agnes? You took her from the world, and from me, when she was a still a promising middle-aged woman of 15. How do you sleep at night?
Aggressive Art has been updated to include Disqus comments,...
Aggressive Art has been updated to include Disqus comments, Twitter Trackbacks, and an improved navigation system on the side.
