nate mook

tickatickets!

booya

Nate at 5:45pm: Want to see Zero 7 in b’more tonight?
Me: hmm…
Nate: Backstage passes….
Me: Done.

They were very down to earth and even appreciated our massive line dance up front.
PS. I love Olivia’s new version of their classic hit

A little over a year ago standing in as press at the massive Obama rally on election eve.

Random Flickr find: Me and Gary Vaynerchuk last month.

The contiguous United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.

“ For fun, I placed a large message halfway through the newspaper: “Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250.” Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.

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Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via ojacko)

My favorite part:

Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.

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And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.

At what point did lying to the public become patriotic?

ojacko:

A warm voice for fall. Thanks Nate.

“ We live in a culture that has begun to prize the appearance of accomplishment over actual accomplishment — it continues to amaze me that private enterprise and venture capital spend so much time and energy (not to mention cash) on “innovations” like Twitter and other forms of social blathering rather than on marshaling the energies and talents of our engineers to create new industries to replace the ones that enabled the American Century.

— Esquire editor David Granger in the most recent issue.

“ Regardless of how you view Capitalism, Moore is absolutely right about one thing. As Beck continues to prove, there is a grass-roots movement of people rallying around dissatisfaction with the Republican party. So if a change is gonna come, it’s going to require organized action. It’s going to take more than status-update solidarity to implement health-care reform.

— From a review of Michael Moore’s new movie in the City Paper.

This is warfare young’un

Lightning is flashing now

Tune in and let’s see what’s happening now

One way or another it’s going down

Parchita the dog ran back 116 blocks with us. By the end of the ride, I could barely breathe. The dog was fine.

Bogota is now one of my favorite cities.

Why yes, I think I will take the Maybach to the airport.

Jack made this woman’s night. There’s no greater gift than that of happiness.

It’s been a strange summer.