Book Review: The Great Great Gatsby

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s not matter–to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
I re-read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great [...]

CrowdFire Launch

John Battelle and some other trendy music/technology lovers are catapulting the music festival industry into the 21st century.
They have created CrowdFire, described on its site as, “an online and onsite destination where music, culture and technology enthusiasts participate in a massive, crowdsourced act of digital media creation.”
Battelle acknowledges the transformation taking place in the supposedly [...]

The New Yorker: Dr. Kush

In the most recent edition of the New Yorker, David Samuels seamlessly writes about his travels through the California circle of marijuana in the article, “Dr. Kush.”
Despite foggy legislation and varying enforcement measures throughout the state, the “gray-zone” pot economy is legal. Samuels provides the rest of the country with his observations on not only [...]

Hesse’s Introduction to Demian

Herman Hesse displayed some of the wisest words I have ever read in his introduction to his novel Demian.
This exceptional book is considered to be Gnostic, possessing that mystic aura of self-realization and introspection. Appropriately, the introduction emphasizes this, encouraging us to understand the significance of each of our stories.
We each do have a story, [...]

Patton Oswalt

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=83
A great speech, perfect for a graduation, covering everything. My words can’t do it justice, it speaks for itself.

“Security” by Hunter S. Thompson

I invite you to read one of Hunter S. Thompson’s essays online entitled “Security”
He concludes by asking the question, “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
Because our pursuit of happiness is one of the basic tenets [...]