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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
365 Thank Yous by John Kralik
Kralik, John. 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Gratitude Changed My Life. New York: Hyperion, 2010.
365 Thank Yous is, thankfully, not a collection of daily thank you notes. Author and jurist John Kralik set out to write 365 thanks in a year and tells the story of how it changed his life in this book.
Kralik's life was not what he wanted it to be. He had two divorces and another shaky relationship, was alienated from his children, disillusioned with his law career, a failing in his business. Everywhere he looked, he saw mounting problems. He was not grateful—he didn’t know how to spell the word—and he was no reason to be grateful.
A conversation with a friend and a remembrance of his grandfather inspired him to make a New Year’s resolution to write a daily thank you note for a year. It changed both his perspective and the conditions of his life.
I think the change of perspective may be most important. We all have problems and most of us find them to be obvious and easy to remember; we’re surrounded by reminders of our problems. It can be overwhelming. We also have things for which to be grateful, but we sometimes have to strain to think of them.
Kralik’s exercise forced him to look for things to be thankful about. In time, in spite of setback, it became easier for him to find and express gratitude.
I think this change in perspective lead to the changes in his life. He was able to see things to which he was previously blind. The vision of these new opportunities opened the door for new actions. Change in his behavior had new results in his family, business and career.
In fact, in the space of a little more than a year, Kralik went from having his dreams slip away to having almost all that he wanted. He had better relationships with his family, his business was recovering, and he received his dream appointment as a judge.
His life wasn’t perfect. He still had problems. His relationship with his girlfriend was improving, but not all he hoped it could be.
Kralik attributes his turnaround to the practice of finding what he is grateful for and expressing his thanks, especially in writing. I think this is right; his change in circumstances seems to be a result of the change in his viewpoint and behavior related to his practice of gratitude.
Gratitude opens our eyes to the good and valuable people, situations and things in our lives, even if we have to strain to see them. The more we look for them, the easier they become to find. As we get a new view on our lives, especially a more positive light, we can see pathways that aren’t clear when we’re focused on our problems.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
The 4:8 Principle by Tommy Newberry
Gratitude by Melody Beattie
Thanks! by Robert A. Emmons
Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark
365 Thank Yous is, thankfully, not a collection of daily thank you notes. Author and jurist John Kralik set out to write 365 thanks in a year and tells the story of how it changed his life in this book.
Kralik's life was not what he wanted it to be. He had two divorces and another shaky relationship, was alienated from his children, disillusioned with his law career, a failing in his business. Everywhere he looked, he saw mounting problems. He was not grateful—he didn’t know how to spell the word—and he was no reason to be grateful.
A conversation with a friend and a remembrance of his grandfather inspired him to make a New Year’s resolution to write a daily thank you note for a year. It changed both his perspective and the conditions of his life.
I think the change of perspective may be most important. We all have problems and most of us find them to be obvious and easy to remember; we’re surrounded by reminders of our problems. It can be overwhelming. We also have things for which to be grateful, but we sometimes have to strain to think of them.
Kralik’s exercise forced him to look for things to be thankful about. In time, in spite of setback, it became easier for him to find and express gratitude.
I think this change in perspective lead to the changes in his life. He was able to see things to which he was previously blind. The vision of these new opportunities opened the door for new actions. Change in his behavior had new results in his family, business and career.
In fact, in the space of a little more than a year, Kralik went from having his dreams slip away to having almost all that he wanted. He had better relationships with his family, his business was recovering, and he received his dream appointment as a judge.
His life wasn’t perfect. He still had problems. His relationship with his girlfriend was improving, but not all he hoped it could be.
Kralik attributes his turnaround to the practice of finding what he is grateful for and expressing his thanks, especially in writing. I think this is right; his change in circumstances seems to be a result of the change in his viewpoint and behavior related to his practice of gratitude.
Gratitude opens our eyes to the good and valuable people, situations and things in our lives, even if we have to strain to see them. The more we look for them, the easier they become to find. As we get a new view on our lives, especially a more positive light, we can see pathways that aren’t clear when we’re focused on our problems.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
The 4:8 Principle by Tommy Newberry
Gratitude by Melody Beattie
Thanks! by Robert A. Emmons
Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Stephen Post and Jill Neimark
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
This Year I Will... by M. J. Ryan
Many of us make New Year’s resolutions,
but few of us keep them. There is less interest on the statistics of
other goals, but
it seems likely that resolutions are hard to keep whenever we make them. Self-help author and
consultant M.
J. Ryan would like to change that sorry state of affairs. Her book This Year I Will… has advice on how to
turn goals into action and dreams into reality.
Ryan makes the important point that much of our behavior is habitual.
We have repeated behaviors so many times that we unthinkingly return to them
when we encounter the stimulus that triggers them. To complicate the matter,
our behaviors fill a need or solve a problem. If they hadn’t they wouldn’t have
become ingrained habits.
You don’t have to delve into you half-remembered childhood to change
behavior, though. You just need to identify the underlying need or problem and
find other means of dealing with them. Ideally, the new behaviors will also
help you meet your goals instead of getting in the way.
I suppose I have made it sound easy.
It is not, and Ryan does not promise quick fixes. In fact, she warns her
readers they will face internal resistance to change. There are parts of brain,
power emotional parts that exert a lot of control over us, that see change as a
threat and will not easily leave the familiar path. Ryan offers advice on how
to handle this, and even how to get our emotional brain to help us instead of
hinder our change.
The book is organized into short chapters. Ryan suggests you can go
directly to the parts you need and return to the other parts later, or when
they seem more useful. Instead of being a book you read through once, she wants
This Year I Will… to be a reference
you can return to when you need fresh ideas or a refresher on techniques you’ve
used before. Some of the subjects that
stood out to me were
- concentrate on “what” instead of “why,”
- dealing with doubt,
- taking action,
- focusing on one or a few changes at a time,
- taking one step at a time (though sometimes we need a big goal to motivate us),
- track your progress (I’m a believer in this),
- have a Plan B (and C, and D…),
- tips for effective visualization,
- performance review, and
- remember to have fun.
There is more than that. The book is not a collection of unrelated
mini-chapters. Though the book isn’t necessarily made to be read linearly, I
found that later chapters tend to build on earlier ones. There is also a subtle
shift from an almost wholly practical to a somewhat philosophical view. You’re
not just doing a better job of setting and achieving goals. The goals you
achieve and the habits you form shape and define your life.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
Ryan, M. J. This Year I Will…:
How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True.
New York: MJF, 2006.
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New Year Links
Happy New Year. Here are some links that might help you get 2011 off to a good start.
Have a New You by Friday by Kevin Leman
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Small Move, Big Change by Caroline L. Arnold
In Small Move, Big Change, Caroline
L. Arnold addresses those who have made big resolutions
and failed to keep them. That is a large audience.
Without getting into depth about the first chapter, the reason we fail
in our resolutions is habit. When we want to change behavior, we come against
the resistance of all our already ingrained behaviors. The larger the change we
try to make, the larger is the resistance we experience.
Arnold’s solution is what she calls microresolutions. This is exactly
what it sounds like, a commitment to a very small change. It is very important
that a microresolution be easy. It should be so small, simple, and easy that
you’ll do it in spite of your old habits. Do it consistently, and in a short
while it will be a new habit.
There are seven rules to making a good microresolution. The first is
already mentioned: make it easy. It should be specific and measurable (you’ve
probably seen this before if you’ve read other books about goal-setting). The
new behavior should have intrinsic value that provides immediate rewards (for
most of us a small reward now is more motivating than the big reward down the
road). It should be personalized to the user. It should be liked to a cue. It
should resonate with the user (and generally be stated in positive terms).
Finally, only take on two microresolutions at a time; you don’t want to exhaust
your willpower.
I especially like the suggestion to link the new behavior to a cue. In
reviewing my successes in making a change, I’ve often tied the new thing I
wanted to do to a trigger. Many of our habitual behaviors are triggered by cues.
These cues could be the calendar, the clock, a feeling, a sensory experience, a
word, or another behavior. Our cues sometimes aren’t even logically connected
to the behaviors they trigger. This is a powerful takeaway for me. In my future
goal-setting, I’ll intentionally think of cues that might make a good trigger
for the new behavior I want to implement. Using cues allows one to piggyback
new habits onto old ones.
All of Arnolds rules are intended to do the same thing: take advantage
of the way we form habits. Instead of unconsciously developing habits that may
or may not help us, we can intentionally form habits that, bit by bit, move us
I the direction we want to go.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
Thursday, December 30, 2010
What's New Dec. 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
What's New January 4, 2011
Bills Watch (Updated)
Book Review: Water by Steven Solomon
Christmas Links 2011
Happy New Year
Happy Thanksgiving
If you are determined...whatever it is you are working toward will be yours
Interesting Stuff January 4, 2012
Make Miracles in Forty Days by Melody Beattie
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
What's New November 21, 2011
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Book Review: Water by Steven Solomon
Christmas Links 2011
Happy New Year
Happy Thanksgiving
If you are determined...whatever it is you are working toward will be yours
Interesting Stuff January 4, 2012
Make Miracles in Forty Days by Melody Beattie
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
What's New November 21, 2011
This is the last “What’s New” feature on Keenan’s Book Reviews. It doesn’t appear that readers were using it. Eliminating it makes for one less thing to keep track of, too. Thanks.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Stan Lee by Bob Batchelor
Stan Lee
is the face of comic
books to many and has become a sort of celebrity in
his more than 70-year long career as a storyteller.
He began to hone his image on the college lecture circuit in the 1960s while he
created a new type of superhero,
typified by the Fantastic
Four and Spider-Man,
in collaboration with artists including Jack Kirby
and Steve
Ditko. It was a role Lee was ready for; he had been trying out ways to
promote comic books and himself since the 1940s.
Bob
Batchelor presents Lee’s life in Stan
Lee: The Man behind Marvel. Though not a long biography,
it starts with Lee’s childhood in New York City
and runs through his 95th year, when he is still producing ideas for
comics and television.
Lee was present nearly at the beginning of comic books. He started as
an assistant to Joe
Simon and Jack Kirby, the creators of Captain
America. When they moved on after contentions with Timely Comics,
a forerunner to Marvel,
Lee stepped up to become editor while still a teenager.
Lee was ready to quit comics by the time the 1960s. He craved to work
in a respectable field and was tired of chasing trends. The right combination
of opportunity and encouragement from his wife pushed Lee to write the kind of
comics he would want to read, and it became a sensation.
Though Lee will always be associated with Marvel comics, by the 1980s his focus
was shifting to television and film.
It was a rough transition for Lee, but he had some success, especially in the
production of animated
adaptions of Marvel characters that were popular in the 1990s.
Lee has stumbled some in his post-Marvel career, notably the debacle of
new media company Stan Lee
Media. He seems to have recovered somewhat with POW!
Entertainment.
Lee has detractors, which Batchelor acknowledges. Batchelor doesn’t
refute those detractors, but his take on Lee is overall very positive. Lee
appears to be someone who tries not to be tied down by his past, neither
dwelling on his failures nor being content with many successes.
Lee was a central figure in creating some of the most popular
characters and stories in the world. Well into his 90s, he is still working and
coming up with ideas that find their way into print, television and the Internet.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
Batchelor, Bob. Stan Lee: The Man
behind Marvel. New York: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2017.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Technology in World Civilization by Arnold Pacey
For those looking for a brief survey of technological
history
around the world, Technology in World
Civilization by Arnold Pacey
would be a good start. With just a little preface to introduce ideas about how
civilizations interact in relation to technology, Pacey dives into a historical
narrative of the development of major technologies. He starts in A.D.
700 and continues almost to the time the book was published in 1990.
Throughout the book, Pacey describes the interactions between
civilizations as a dialogue. Straightforward, direct transfer of technology
from one civilization to another is rare in his view. The success and
development of a technology that originated in a foreign culture depends a lot
on the customs, organization, government,
economy,
and technology of the receiving culture. Very often, the adoption of a foreign
technology spurs adaptions, improvements and even new inventions among the
adopters. Even the rumor of a foreign technology can spur people invent, or
independently reinvent, solutions to a problem. Pacey is keen to recognize this
stimulus effect in cross-cultural dialogue related to technology.
In addition to recognizing the inventiveness found in many cultures,
Pacey is careful not to overemphasize mechanical inventions, which might tend
to put the focus on the West. He points out that the development of more
efficient and productive crops and agricultural
practices in Asia
were also important technologies.
Another important technological improvement centered on organization
and abstraction. As technologies became larger and more complex, they exhausted
what could be experienced directly by craftsmen. Improvement depended on
developing new ways of thinking about materials and work. Scale drawing and
model-making became a way to deal with complex construction. New principles of
organization were applied to work, such as specialization and division of
labor, especially as people began to work with powered machinery. Some
technological improvements even required a new way of understanding materials,
spurring interest in the development of sciences,
especially chemistry.
Pacey follows this progression through guns and railroads and
into the 20th
century with computers,
nuclear
power, and flights to the moon. He doesn’t
stop there. Instead, he takes a look, seemingly “back,” to survival
technologies. Technologies related to agriculture, sanitation
and environmental
health in the 20th century have a huge impact on the way we live
today. In the decades since this book was published, the Internet has
revolutionized the way we think about computing and communications, but in many
ways our health, wellbeing and lifestyles depend on technologies that are
centuries old and we cannot neglect them. Perhaps in an ongoing cross-cultural
dialogue about technology, new and old, we can find solutions to current and
future problems (climate change, water shortages, clean energy, food security
and more) that are adaptable to the various needs, scales and organizations of
cultures around the world.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
Pacey, Arnold. Technology in
World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. Cambridge,
MA: The MIT
Press, 1990.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
What's New January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!
25 Book Reviews Posted on Keenan’s Book Reviews
Case Closed (Vol. 2) by Gosho Ayoama
Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen
Infrastructure Blogs (Updated)
Infrastructure Watch: Blog Reactions on Technorati
Keenan Patterson - Jefferson City / Columbia, MO Facebook
Rail May Get a Boost from Train-Riding Veep
State of Missouri On-line Bidding
What’s New Dec. 27, 2008
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25 Book Reviews Posted on Keenan’s Book Reviews
Case Closed (Vol. 2) by Gosho Ayoama
Good Dog. Stay. by Anna Quindlen
Infrastructure Blogs (Updated)
Infrastructure Watch: Blog Reactions on Technorati
Keenan Patterson - Jefferson City / Columbia, MO Facebook
Rail May Get a Boost from Train-Riding Veep
State of Missouri On-line Bidding
What’s New Dec. 27, 2008
XING - Groups - All Groups - American Business Network - Article ...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones
Jones,
Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. New York: Basic Books,
2004.
Reviewing Gerard Jones’ history
of the comic
book industry
makes me feel like I’m pitching a new show to the cable networks. It’s a little like Mad Men. There is less
suavity, but plenty of smoking, drinking, and womanizing. There is room for some gratuitous nudity. Many of the comics publishers
came from got started in spicy pulps
and nudie mags. They were hustlers from the street, too, many
with mob
connections. So we can have a touch of Boardwalk Jungle, though the
violence is contained to the muscular fantasies
of young men wanting to overcome a sense of powerlessness. Of course, there may be comparisono to The Big Bang Theory, especially when
you have scenes of young men working side-by-side at typewriters and drawing
boards, helping and competing with each other.
Most aren’t geniuses, but plenty are awkward and pretentious. It even has a great name: Men of Tomorrow.
The book is a mostly chronological look at the development of
comics. It starts with the pulp
publishers. As the pulps declined for
various reasons of economics
and taste, the comics rose their peak in World War II. Patriotic superheroes
were depicted punching Hitler in the
face before America
entered the war. Superhero comics declined after the war,
especially due to competition from television,
though other genres did well. Some of
them, especially crime
and horror,
attracted the attention of reformers who wanted a clean and upright media safe
for children and a culture longing for conformity and peace. Comics found a new life as baby boomers
came of age, partly because of interest in new dysfunctional heroes of Stan Lee and
his collaborators and partly because cheap underground comics were exploring
the youth counterculture. Finally, comics became an almost mainstream
medium, especially superheroes who successfully moved into film
and other media.
There are almost too many people discussed in this book to mention. Harry
Donenfeld and Jack
Liebowitz built a shady distributor of sex stories and porn into a pillar
of a major media corporation. Along the
way, their conflict with Superman
creators Jerry
Siegel and Joe
Shuster became the stuff of comics legend that occasionally broke into
mainstream consciousness. In many
retellings of this story, Donenfeld and Liebowitz are demonized and Siegel and
Shuster lionized. Jones mostly resists
this urge, treating the New York publishers with some fairness and showing how
the cartoonists
from Cleveland
were the cause of some of their own trouble.
There is a host of other notables from trash publishing (Hugo
Gernsback and Bernarr
McFadden), organized
crime (Frank
Costello and Mayer Lansky),
failed teachers
and academics (Charlie
Gaines and William
Moulton Marston), and finally from comics (Charlie Biro,
Bob Kane, Jack Cole, Jack Kirby,
and many more).
Many of these people grew up in Jewish immigrant families. Their successes and failures in the 1920s and
1930s, their readiness for war in the 1940s, and their search for an identity
both American and Jewish in the postwar year reflects the journey of a larger
community. In addition to being a story
of comics, it is a story of how Jews, immigrants, science
fiction, and geeks
moved from the edges of American society toward the mainstream—or maybe the
mainstream widened to encompass them.
If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Aldo
Leopold had a long career working with and studying nature as a government
forester, university
professor, founder of the discipline of wildlife management. He is remembered
as author and popular proponent of wilderness based on his book A Sand County Almanac.
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A Sand County Almanac is a
collection of essays
in three parts. The first part is a tour of his Wisconsin farm covering each
month of the year. Actually, it is not a farm in the sense of being a business
that produces food
and fiber. It was abandoned as a farm and hiding place for illegal stills when
Leopold bought it as a semi-wild getaway. To be fair, though, it was abandoned
as a farm because of practices that destroyed much of its productive capacity,
and Leopold’s theme is land management. He approaches that theme gently in the
first part. A reader can have the sense of strolling around the place with
Leopold as he points out the plants and animals
that live there, full-time or seasonally, and shares his enthusiasm for them.
In the second part, Leopold expands the scope to cover many places in
the central and western United States,
and even a few places in Mexico and Canada. These essays
also recount his personal experiences relating to wild lands. In some of these
essays he begins to touch more firmly on points of land management and policy.
In the final part, Leopold’s essays are more direct. The point of the
book is that, if Americans, or people generally, want to have a rich landscape,
wildlife, and land that is productive for generations, we need to value land in
a new way and take new approaches to managing it.
The culmination of this discussion is the land ethic. Ethics
are essentially about community, and
the appropriate and acceptable relationships
between the members of the community and each member and the community as a
whole. A land ethic treats the land as a part of the community. In land,
Leopold includes “soils, waters, plants, and animals.” Land is a part of our
community that produces things of both economic
and ineffable value. The land ethic implies that we have obligations to each
other and to the land to conserve it. Conservation
isn’t simply a matter or protecting specific areas, plants or animals. There is
a place for policy, but the ethic is also individual, and a successful
conservation efforts will mean landowners will need to treat the land and
something inherently valuable. We would conserve ethically out of a sense of humility,
realizing that the land is much more complex that we understand, and that our
progress can outpace our understanding with possibly irreversible undesirable
results.
Reconnecting to the land, and learning to value it, is encouraged by
Leopold. Arguably, the first two parts of the book are intended to give the
reader a sense of connection to the land. On the policy front, he suggests that
many of the things we do to connect people to wilderness is destroying the
wilderness. A land ethic could be a curative for this because aware people
could connect to the land (especially wild plants and animals) close to home,
even in cities, and be able to appreciate even wilder places from a distance.
He goes so far as to suggest that amateur wildlife research could become a new
type of sportsmanship, and cites cases were amateurs managing their own small
plots have contributed to our understanding of wildlife.
It should be noted that, in addition to being a collection of
thoughtful essays on nature, A Sand
County Almanac is beautifully written. He can be poetical and political
in the same sentence, such as “Hemisphere solidarity is new among statesmen,
but not among the feathered navies of the sky.” He expresses himself with a
gentle, homey cynicism as when he wrote, “Education, I fear, is learning to see
one thing by going blind to another.”
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If you’re interested in this book, you may also be interested in
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County
Almanac and Sketches from Here and There. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1949.
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Though we might like to
imagine ourselves exercising a lot of conscious control over our lives, a
lot—perhaps half—of what we do in a day is habitual. Our habits can make us or break us. Fortunately,
we can change our habits.
The Big Thing by Phyllis Korkki
Changing for Good by James O. Prochaska, John C.
Norcross & Carlo C. DiClemente
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
How to Fail at Almost Anything and
Still Win Big by
Scott Adams
Level Up Your Life by Steve Kamb
One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Secrets You Keep from Yourself by Dan Neuharth
Small Move, Big Change by Caroline L. Arnold
Succeed by Heidi Grant Halvorson
This Year I Will... by M. J. Ryan
Friday, May 15, 2020
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Habits have a
profound impact on our lives. They are behaviors we repeat, sometimes
automatically, and by repetition, their effects accumulate. It would be great
if our habits supported us in being the people we want to be, and if they did
not reinforce things we would like to change. James Clear describes how habits work and a
system for getting them to work for you in Atomic
Habits.
Before working on habits,
you need to work on beliefs. Beliefs always win out, and your
habits are, to a degree, a manifestation of your beliefs. Fortunately, working
on habits can support new beliefs about yourself. You can set up small wins
that support your belief in your new identity.
You can also give
yourself a break by taking the focus off goals, which can seem overwhelming.
Instead, focus on systems. Focus on the things you do,
especially the things you do repeatedly, that move you toward being who you
want to be. Instead of noticing the gap between where you are and a goal, you
can encourage yourself by noticing the progress you make.
Clear describes the
process of habit formation. It starts with a cue,
which triggers the brain to start a behavior in anticipation of a reward. We experience a craving, a motivation or desire for the reward. As a response, we
perform the habitual behavior. Finally, we get a reward that satisfies the
craving. Unfortunately, that reward may not satisfy us in helpful ways. We can
take advantage of this system to reinforce new behavior patterns and interrupt
old patterns.
We can take advantage of
the cue by making them more obvious (to trigger wanted behavior) or making them
invisible (to prevent the triggering of bad habits). We can rig the craving by
making the potential reward more or less attractive. We can make it easier or
more difficult to perform a habitual behavior. We can also make the reward more
or less satisfying. To superpower these strategies, we can stack them.
In his book, Clear
provides several ways to implement these strategies for making and breaking
habits. As you develop and implement your habit change strategy, Clear encourages
you to seek sweet spot. It will be challenging, and that sense of challenge can be a
great motivator, but if you take on to much at once or too large a change, you
are likely to experience a failure that can be disheartening. Little wins are
great rewards, especially when the feel earned, so seek changes that you can
realistically achieve, but that you’ll need to stretch to reach.
If you’re interested in
this book, you may also be interested in
Monday, February 8, 2010
Interesting Stuff Feb. 8, 2010
1808 – 1908 – 2008: National Planning for America
Covered posts reenvisionings of comics covers by various artists
-A cool graphic take on New Mutants
-Something whimsical
-This makes me laugh
-This Spider-Woman cover is pretty cool
DC Comics First Wave
-More about First Wave, Doc Savage, The Spirit
Disney Princesses You Won’t Be Seeing
The Geek Teamups of Sherlock Holmes, From Batman to Doctor Who
Gumby Creator Art Clokey Is Dead
Hey, Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time! is an art blog with a literary bent
-Here are several takes on Dashiell Hammett
I don’t stay up late much anymore, but I say, “Keep Conan. If I’m staying up that late, I won’t be watching Leno.”
-Big Money at Stake If Conan O'Brien, NBC Divorce
-Conan O’Brien to lose characters
-Conan O’Brien, NBC settlement
-Conan O'Brien Rips NBC in Monologue
-Conan O'Brien Says He Won't Budge for Jay Leno (You go girl!)
-Conan Pays the Price for NBC Chief's Lack of Vision
-David Letterman invites Conan O’Brien
-Dear NBC: Just Let Jay Leno Go
-Jay Leno, Letterman marriage joke
-Jimmy Fallon speaks up
-Jimmy Kimmel sabotages Jay Leno
-Late-Night Hosts Gang Up to Pummel NBC
-Why We're on Team Conan O'Brien
Interesting Stuff Jan. 5, 2010--Happy New Year
Superhero Versions of 80s Album Art by Cliff Chiang
Why Leno & Letterman hate each other
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