Monthly Archives: December 2013

December 07

To Russia’s LGBQT Youth

Originally posted on Feisty Feminism:
The It Gets Better Project posted this video for Russia’s LGBQT youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6LvuwI7GQ I wanted add my message of support to the Russian queer community (not just youth).  It wasn’t that long ago that it was illegal to be gay in the United States.  Through activism and resistance, hearts, minds…

December 06

How to Succeed in a Life of Crime

December 05

Dropbox CEO Explains How He Turned His ‘Distraction’ Into a $4 Billion Company

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGsgXM-NkM Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston recently gave the commencement speech at MIT, where he shared what’s on his personal cheat sheet. “There are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. And when you die, it’s not like “here lies Drew, he […]

December 04

Berlin Moments

“Du bist verrückt mein Kind, du mußt nach Berlin.” (“You are crazy, my child. You must go to Berlin.”) – Franz von Suppe, composer, 1800. Franz con Suppe was an Austrian composer of operas. He wrote the Light Cavalry Overture and many of the works. His overtures have appeared in many cartoons and children’s entertainment. However, […]

December 02

Festival of Lights, Festival of Life

  Chanukah has always meant more to me than just being about presents, candles, or dreidel. It is about pushing the darker elements of life out of our existence. This might sound existential or random, but take a look at the quotes below and I think you might agree. So when you light the menorah […]

December 01

R.I.P. Paul Walker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atgcu-v-n-c Actor Paul Walker — a self-styled adrenaline junkie best known for his role in “The Fast and the Furious” movies — was killed Saturday in a fiery single-car wreck in Southern California. I was a huge fan of Paul Walker and eagerly awaiting the seventh film in the franchise.