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How Low-Cost Gyms Like Planet Fitness Psychologically Manipulate Members Into NOT Going To The Gym It's true, if I spend 200 dollars a month on a membership, I'm getting my butt to the gym.

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Kevin Hart Reponds To Sony Exec Shade: “I Protect My Brand”

Kevin Hart Reponds To Sony Exec Shade: “I Protect My Brand”

Originally posted on K97.5:

Kevin Hart is not apologizing for his hustle. On the heels of Sony hackers leaking e-mails involving Sony Pictures executives dissing his request to be paid to tweet promotions for Think Like A Man Too, the comic is speaking out and isn?t backing down. Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton and studio exec Clint Culpepper

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On my second day in the new town, I went to Best Buy to buy a telephone. In the store, I asked a salesperson, “Do you have old fashioned telephones as opposed to cellular phones?” He knew exactly what I meant and pointed me in the right direction.

I have a landline in my new apartment because,...

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If this is a man

If this is a man

Today I think of Primo Levi. And the silenced voices. I reflect about him and his stories more at Christmas time than any other time of the year. He presented the Christmas Tree in a most heartbreaking way in his book, The Reawakening, with the absurdity of the tree placed next to the gallows in Auschwitz. I think of him at anytime that I hear stories about the silenced. No matter the life, it…

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Essential

I’m adding Fitzgerald’s reading list to tonight’s post. It’s from Open Culture, which I love. It’s a list of free, (read no signups necessary) for itunes courses, free ebooks, movies, etc. It’s a wonderful playground/library (ha they’re the same thing to me!). And it’s something that I visit once a day. Ah…wonderful knowledge get in the big brain of mine.

I skipped last night. Two nights ago I…

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Pulling Teeth and Other Things I'd Rather be Doing

Pulling Teeth and Other Things I’d Rather be Doing

The hour before 8pm, where I have decided that I will write everyday for the month of November grips me with this rush of anxiety that is like the anxiety felt when one quits smoking. I’ve had a lot of experience with that last idea (I’ve quit smoking about 5 times in my life, not unlike Mark Twain).

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of…

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Love Matters

I stole quotes today. I borrowed quotes today. I’m listening to Lucinda Williams sing “Plan to Marry”. I’m stuck on the line,

“Love is our mighty sword. Love is our weapon. Love is a lesson.”

Then I think about Fromm and his book about the subject. And this quote,

“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ “ Erich Fromm

I needed extra…

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Hope of the Morning

Hope of the Morning

“You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff. You are not restoring a great painting that’s shortly going to be thrown into the fire. You are not planting roses in a garden that’s about to be dug up for a building site. You are—strange though it may seem, almost as hard to believe as the resurrection itself—accomplishing something that will become in due course…

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Wichita: Riding Bikes

Writing creatively again after 5 years is not at all like “riding a bike” or an equally bothersome clique that implies ease. My bike riding is akin to finally getting balance at top speed near the cliff face and have to make the split-second decision to ditch the bike or cause myself bodily harm. I always leave the bike behind, afraid to commit to going over the edge and leaping into the…

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My book of cartoons ‘You’re All Just Jealous of my Jetpack’ is available now: US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1770461043 UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1770461043 Other stockists and info at www.tomgauld.com

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Meat

what dose meat have when there angry

SAU SAGE

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Barbie, You've Pissed Me Off

Barbie, You’ve Pissed Me Off

First off, I’m already in a bad mood. Then I had to go and read this drivel. The article was fascinating. It really made me feel like I learned something when I got through it. I’ve faced sexism when it comes to working environments. I’ve been looked down at and looked past because I am a woman doing a “man’s” job. Barbie, well you pissed me off. Granted it’s the content writers fault, but the…

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What Character: A people first design.

What Character: A people first design.

Characters provide the foundation of good and memorable stories. They are relatable, if larger than life. The breathe into the story and they give the reader a reason to continue even if the plot is unexpected. I think the 1980-1990 version of a character where it is extremely constructed (thinking of television series here) as opposed to the late 90′s – early 2000′s reality tv shows where we…

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Not Looking Back

Not looking back, but looking down the hill. This is the most I have written in years. And while I am super judgmental about each word my fingers have typed, I typed them. And that feels really good. They moved across the screen and I stopped just talking about it. I formed a slight habit. Albeit a habit that makes me extremely anxious, non-social, forces procrastination, but that waste of time…

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The Halfway Point

It’s the final countdown. It’s the point of no return. It’s the halfway point.

Thank god there are still 15 days left!

I took Friday night and most of today to solidify the holes in my plot. It is still dangerously close to the suck dragon after all. But I have identified crucial points of entry that I need to keep going with. I added more scenes today after reading an article that told me his…

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Plot: And avoiding my suck dragon

Plot: And avoiding my suck dragon

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. E. M. Forster

I’ve been missing something. At first, I thought it was characters that drew the audience. Now I know I’ve been missing my ending and with it the plot. The main issue begin the fate of my main character or co-main character.

You just snuck up on me out of nowhere!

I would really…

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