Some Good Advice

Perusing ffffound has become an essential part of my morning ritual, and this week it hooked me up with a bit of wisdom worth sharing.

From Ace Jet 170

Two Beautiful Performances

I’ve watched this video of Grizzly Bear performing “While You Wait For the Others” on Conan around 20 times this week.

The Retread Sessions deliver again! This is Akron/Family performing “They Will Appear, Behold” in a sylvan hippie commune near Austin.

Another Reason to be Leery of Hillary Clinton Supporters

From TechPresident.

A Favorite Person/Artist Starts Blogging

Michael John Kelly has started blogging and painting again. This is wonderful.

He also gave me the F*** Buttons record, which is good. It’s very derivative of Black Dice (even the artwork), very well executed.

Discover Channel Inspires

Thanks to Kevin and Paige for that one.

More Good Advice

If you focus on what’s going wrong in your life—especially if you see it as “bad luck” you can do nothing about—it will seem blacker and more malevolent. In a short time, you’ll become so convinced that everything is against you that you’ll notice more and more instances where this appears to be true. As a result, you will almost certainly stop trying, convinced that nothing you can do will improve your prospects.

From lifehack.org via 37 Signals

Something Shocking

every year, taxpayers shell out between $7.1 billion and $8.2 billion to subsidize or clean up after our nation’s 9,900 confined animal feeding operations.

Chew on that.

From Ethicurean via Jay at the Linkery.

Makes me want to get a lot better at gardening.