how to be ok at stuff

Some things speak for themselves. Let this one. Then go here.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtobeokatstuff.com%2Fhtd%2Fgoosebumpery’;
addthis_title = ‘GooseBumpery’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Technorati Tags: daniel mercadante, everynone, goosebumpery, npr, radiolab, unseen-music.com, will hoffman, words

NSFW/ not safe for work if you work somewhere uptight. If you can work from home in stretch-pants/undies/nothing, totally safe for work. If you don’t care that your boss knows breasts exist, safe for work. If you’re human, you will have at least one reaction to this. Mine were too numerous to count, so I’ll [...]

A Ze Frank recommendation that was powerful enough to distract me from a pretty serious line of thinking.
A prize awaits the person who can figure out if this is actually Getty stock footage.

Ratatat – Drugs from Blink on Vimeo.
This is how to make a video to which I will respond.

addthis_url [...]

Been getting a lot of flak from the frosting lately, so some stream-trains. If you leave it on the doorstep, it’s going to get set on fire and stomped out for old times’ sake.
Everything’s a learning experience and every parachute is a coffin. I mean every love is a battlefield. I’m driving at the ineffable [...]

You often discover that they’re still true. So here’s my response to one of the local columnists. I submitted it to the local paper, and they published it. He felt the need to retaliate, but I don’t remember what he said. But here most of it is anyway, for those of you who might have [...]

I am falling in multiple loves with SMBC Theater.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtobeokatstuff.com%2Fhtd%2Fthe-internet-and-your-virgin-eyes-susie-oh-dear’;
addthis_title = ‘The+Internet+And+Your+Virgin+Eyes%2C+Susie.+Oh+Dear.’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Technorati Tags: how to be ok at stuff, saturday morning breakfast cereal, smbc theater, susie and the internet, the internet

I don’t usually do this (who am I kidding, I do this all the time), but here’s a link to a most amazing, and pretty brand-spanking-new, webcomic. Scenes from a Multiverse already rocks. The creator, Jonathan Rosenberg, will accept your (what has two thumbs and is failing at making connections between humans? this guy (if [...]

There are times in everyone’s life, and perhaps more times in our lives (we the depressed and anxious) when we want nothing more than to be productive members of society. We want to contribute, want to have the contributions we make recognized, and maybe even seek salvation through our contributions.
But these times cannot exist if [...]

Dreambits. I’m going to go with dreambits for my nine-letter answer to what the clue from “Editing a Novel part two” was. Oh, just listen. I have my reasons.
Dreams are feelings you can mainline from your heart to the page. Not only are they a surefire method of tapping into your most visceral of experiences, [...]

If you haven’t yet read Warren Ellis ad Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan, you’re missing out in a major way.
Hunter S. Thompson shuffled right on out of his mortal coils and on to the great buffalo in the sky in the middle of my senior year. I remember a teacher I had reading the announcement aloud [...]