→ September 21, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about Benjamin Franklin. The guy was freakin’ ridiculous. He formed the first library in America. Harnessed electricity. Created bifocal lenses. Played the violin, the harp and the guitar. He was an independent printer, successful author, satirist and cartoonist. A volunteer firefighter. The ambassador to France. A fervent abolitionist. Oh, and then [...]
→ September 13, 2009
Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine has become a top contender for the category of Ultimate BrainCrush. Well, if I’m being totally honest, she’s more of a standard-issue “can we go make out now, please?” crush than a BrainCrush, but to avoid turning into a creepy Stalky McStalkerton, let’s go with the BrainCrush classification. [...]
→ September 11, 2009
Henry David Thoreau was the ultimate unitasker: a sensible man who completed his work in an uninterrupted fashion…one row of beans at a time. He was a frugal / green / DIY-ing / straight-edge / vegetarian / anarchist / hipster way before skinny jeans and thick-rimmed spectacles hit the scene. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, [...]
