Lest We Surrender, Or Give Up The Fight

On a farm in NC. Freelances, reads books, and writes about Justified. Braving the elements since 1984.

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xkcd: Dark Matter

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I forgot to mention; The Budos Band played here Saturday and holy mother mary was it a barnburner. Maybe the most energetic exchange between audience and band that I’ve ever seen in this town, or anyplace really. Gott dayum venue was on fire. If they play your city, drop everything and go. 

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I would agree, sitting here in my Budos Band t-shirt 🤘

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Location Scouting Photographs for Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders

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inrng: Giro Rest Day Review

The Giro is alllllways the best (even 2018 which still makes me salty) but if Carapaz + Landa pulls off this coup I am so there for it. I mean, come on. This photo. LOL. 💕

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Up all night, Radosław Kaźmierczak

[lestwesurrender]

If I’m not posting, it’s because I am:

writing a book

reading tons of books for research on writing the book

planting the biggest garden I’ve done yet

working

watching God’s Own Country almost every night

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Free Solo. If you need to reduce me to puddles of flop sweat, here’s now.

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Alexey Lutsenko attacked, went solo, found himself herb-picking on a hairpin bend, then crashed on another corner later, got caught in the final kilometre, then won the stage.

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This feels too much like my week.

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You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul. That worrier.

Mary Oliver, Winter Hours

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Cue the fucking Tears For Fears.

Generally speaking, what I’ve learned about hard work is that if you show your employer that you are smart, organized, efficient, self starting, have a monster work ethic, and all those other linkedIn keywords, it will be exploited. You will be run absolutely ragged, and the harder you run to meet the demand, the more work you’ll be given. You’ll also be tasked with picking up the slack/substandard job performance of those around you, and will be taken to the mat about it if you protest or fail to complete said adult diaper changing in addition to your own workload, while the toddlers in question won’t be held accountable. You will go home each day with scarcely any energy left for yourself and your own life and loved ones, and as this compounds over months and years you slowly but surely will suffer burnout, and assuredly be fired or pushed out for it. The only exception appears to be starting your own business, in which case it will completely fucking consume your life both personal and professional, until you reach a plateau where you are able to hire others, eventually exploit them as well, rinse and repeat.

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If this isn’t my life right now, I don’t know what is.

[nevver]

Fill'er up, David Campany

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What goals?” Jessie said. “Goals are for fascists. Are you having doubts about your goals? Because, if so, it’s about time.

Jennifer Crusie, Manhunting

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I so did that! It was the Pizza Hut “Book It” program.

[lestwesurrender]

I got so many pan pizzas that way! Can “Book It” still be a thing?

[austinkleon]

you don’t need an app, you need someone gently to tell you that you should consider the possibility that writing is not just about writing, it’s also (and maybe mainly) about the space in between the writing, when nothing seems to be happening, or random stuff is having an incoherent party inside your head.

Jenny Diski (via austinkleon)

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Brandi Carlile Gave A Rousing Performance Of ’The Joke’ At The Grammys

After a huge year of Grammys nominations, Brandi Carlile took the stage to perform her acclaimed song, ’The Joke.’

ICYMI:  I didn’t watch the Grammys either, but I this performance would have made it more worthwhile if I had.  

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Truly one of the best songs of 2018.

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If I can’t keep a sense of what it’s like to pass 30 seconds, how am I supposed to have a sense of a morning, a day, a week, a month, a year?

Austin Kleon, The electric toothbrush theory of relativity

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Might as well start the year off right. Let’s not break tradition; I’m a few rewatches away from reciting by heart.