What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion - is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw - William Maxwell, author of ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’
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What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion - is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw - William Maxwell, author of ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’

Taking to collecting coffee table books like I used to pick up records. One day soon, they’re both going to be relics. (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Taking to collecting coffee table books like I used to pick up records. One day soon, they’re both going to be relics.

(Art Institute of Chicago)

Choose. Between 36 book covers.

Tell me what you like and don’t like about them. Top three? Bottom three.

Last night, around the time I stopped having fun was when giving thinking on an author’s marketing decisions and then defending it against the input of other people who are not in the publicity or publishing business.

While I think layman’s opinions and outside thinking are so very important, it grinds me when my downtime turns into doing work. It’s something I can accept when the request is in-bound as an e-mail. Not when it’s in-person.

I don’t think work-life balance really exists, although downtime has got to be downtime or else you’re always going to feel like you’re under fire.

The way to manage these kinds of situations, I think, is to make sure clients know you’re always available, and that office hours are office hours. Work that has to be done after hours is called an emergency and it will show up on their monthly invoice in the form of an emergency.

Crisis PR is costly because bad behavior is, too. So is letting people step over your boundaries.

Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America. My newest coffee table book reminds me I might have been born a hundred years too late.
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Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America. My newest coffee table book reminds me I might have been born a hundred years too late.

A birthday gift for my dear friend and spirit animal Mel on her 30th birthday. Superstar and Chicago assistant editor of UrbanDaddy. She spins words like webs no spider ever spun before.

The party edition of Dr. Seuss’ ‘Oh the Place You’ll Go’ has sparkles on the front cover! And that’s all which makes it different. Worth it? Well; pshaw.

Working on my new book, “The Ten - Make That Nine - Habits of Highly Organized People. Actually Ten
Steve Martin on Twitter
Bad habits. A new one of mine is buying interesting coffee table books when I see them. ‘Jasper Johns: Gray’ will go next to ‘Playboy’s 50 Years of Cartoons.’ On my desk. Beast. (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Bad habits. A new one of mine is buying interesting coffee table books when I see them. ‘Jasper Johns: Gray’ will go next to ‘Playboy’s 50 Years of Cartoons.’ On my desk. Beast.

(Art Institute of Chicago)

Someday there will be a book of Charles Barkley quotes and a MBA class taught around it

Charles Barkley: “I know why his name is DMX. Because his real name is Earl. Imagine if his name was Earl the rapper.”

 bees-knees:

My favorite Barkley quote from this season is the following: “I keep a house in Philly because that’s where I became a man.”

This is a close second.

redeyechicago:

More basketball stuff. We can’t help ourselves. There’s just to much good stuff to talk about in the NBA/Basketball World. Good things like random/amazing Charles Barkley quotes. Barkley never fails to entertain. Read more at

barkleyquotes.com/random

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And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends, For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.

Tina Fey’s Prayer for her Daughter (via emilysayshi)

From her new book Bossypants. I just ordered it from Amazon, you know, because there’s only one Borders still standing in the city Chicago. Advance praise:

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BOSSYPANTS:

“Absolutely delicious!” (A Guy Who Eats Books )

“Totally worth it.” (Trees )

“Do not print this glowing recommendation of Tina Fey’s book until I’ve been dead a hundred years.” (Mark Twain )

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I rearranged my apartment on Sunday. Turns out I have a lot of books. Most are back on shelves. I’ll figure out what to do with the rest. Something I learned about girls the past several years is that when they say like to read, most of them don’t actually enjoy reading, they just say that they do so you won’t think they’re a flooze.
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I rearranged my apartment on Sunday. Turns out I have a lot of books. Most are back on shelves. I’ll figure out what to do with the rest.

Something I learned about girls the past several years is that when they say like to read, most of them don’t actually enjoy reading, they just say that they do so you won’t think they’re a flooze.