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A quick one

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

A brief snippet from the European Youth for Action Web site. The bolding and italicizing is mine:  "In the West, the understanding of basic living standards is changeable, depending on lifestyle; a busy job, social life, travel etc. It is also a symptom of the boredom and laziness brought on by ...

P.S.

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Coming this weekend, The Things You Carry 2.0, a look at the possible future of the blog you know and might vaguely remember.

Luckiest guy on the Lower East Side

Friday, March 14th, 2008

I couldn't find a public domain picture of the place, so here's a link to the Old Town School of Folk Music. It's a wonderful, community-based school and social center and I'm going there tonight. I'm not going there because it's a wonderful 501(c)3 non-profit educational program with long-standing ties to the ...

This is so lame

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Every so often, I'll come up with a great joke but have no place to put it. Now, with lame self-indulgence, I can include my most recent example. Past examples: -- Making a movie about a team of semi-driving bounty hunters who, in 1997, have 24 hours to get to Florida and capture ...

Just because I can

Friday, February 29th, 2008

A lot of times, people ask me, "Paul, how can I not buy stuff?" Well, here's how. (By the way, I know the video is extending into the right-side blogroll and stuff. I know how to fix it, too. I chose to sacrifice my weird little blog description for higher video quality. ...

This is going to sound bad

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

(Public domain image. Source: Imageafter.com) OK, so I'm just putting it out there - when I was a kid, I thought everyone on the entire planet was poor except for in the US and western Europe. Seriously, I thought the world was a bunch of tempest-tossed, starving refugees, some British guys and ...

Coming Monday!

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

The Things You Carry goes audio, debuting what will hopefully be the first of many audio interviews. You have been warned.

Just a thought

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

For today and only today, no links, no breaking news, no RSS feeds or online blogosphere community building. Just a thought by ecologist Paul Shepard, as quoted in Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." "Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are ...

Meet and greet

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Welcome to the Paulblog. Granted, it's not called that, but that's a pretty catchy name. I permit you to use it elsewhere. Anyway, here's the deal: There's a lot of stuff we buy. You know how Christmas just ended? Probably with retailers about $475,000,000,000 richer, if the National Retail Federation is ...