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"Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it."

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:38:04 -0600

“Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”

- Jon Bond

52 Books Challenge: April

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:39 -0600

The Modern Meeting Standard by Al Pittampalli
StandOut by Marcus Buckingham
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Your Life Can Be Better by Douglas Puryear MD
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life by Larry Winget
Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

Bernadette: I've actually been thinking I'm gonna hyphen it; Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:27:22 -0600

Bernadette: I've actually been thinking I'm gonna hyphen it; Bernadette Maryann Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
Penny: Nice, you know you should totally get bernadettemaryannrostenkowskiwolowitz.com before someone snaps it up
Bernadette: I already took care of it

"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:53 -0600

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

- J.K. Rowling

Advice on moving to Los Angeles

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:02:14 -0600

Advice on moving to Los Angeles

Pit Stop (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:31 -0600

Pit Stop (Taken with instagram)

"Workout hard! Because somewhere out there. A girl is warming up with your max rep."

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:38:26 -0600

“Workout hard! Because somewhere out there. A girl is warming up with your max rep.”

Mixtape: Pancakes for Dinner (Spring 2012)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:22:16 -0600

College Feat. Electric Youth - A Real Hero (04:27)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - If I Had A Gun… (04:09)
William Fitzsimmons - I Don’t Feel It Anymore (feat. Brooke Fraser) (03:30)
Shout Out Louds - Play the Game (04:03)
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (04:41)
Passion Pit - Eyes as Candles (04:03)
Franc Castillejos - Volumes and Shelves (03:37)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle (03:55)
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life (03:08)
The Bird & The Bee - Spark (04:08)
Wheat - Don’t I Hold You (03:49)
Kings Of Leon - Birthday (03:15)
Explosions In The Sky - Sonho Dourado (03:26)

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My Strengths Roles: Rank Order

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:47:36 -0600

PIONEER: You see the world as a friendly place where, around every corner, good things will happen. Your distinctive power starts with your optimism in the face of uncertainty.
CONNECTOR: You are a catalyst. Your power lies in your craving to put two things together to make something bigger than it is now.

52 Books Challenge: March

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:36:58 -0600

Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson

"All three X, Y, Z elements – ADD, Bi-Polar and Narcissism – create the perfect combination for a..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:42:32 -0600

“All three X, Y, Z elements – ADD, Bi-Polar and Narcissism – create the perfect combination for a successful entrepreneur.”

- Margo Geller

Reader's Bill of Rights

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:30:32 -0600

The right to not read
The right to skip pages
The right to not finish
The right to reread
The right to read anything
The right to escapism
The right to read anywhere
The right to browse
The right to read out loud
The right to not defend your tastes

"Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT..."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:09:02 -0600

“Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.”

- Timothy Ferriss

52 Books Challenge: February

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:32:44 -0600

Impact Pricing by Mark Stiving
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
Editing by Design by Jan White
Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

52 Books Challenge: January

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:57:00 -0600

The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
The E-Myth Revised by Michael Gerber
The Flinch by Julien Smith
Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki
The Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin

"I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that, then I realized I was somebody."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:35:10 -0600

“I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that, then I realized I was somebody.”

- Lily Tomlin

"I do not interact with Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social networking platforms. My..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:45:14 -0600

“I do not interact with Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social networking platforms. My reasoning is simple. Why in the world would I want to share my private thoughts and feelings with the world at large? What good could possibly come from me having a convenient outlet to express myself to millions of people? The more likely outcome is that in a misguided attempt to be funny or cute, I’d say something stupid and wind up getting publicly raked over the proverbial coals. Which is why I think the wiser path is to keep my opinions to myself. For example, if I were to feel moral outrage over an organization riddled with pedophiles expressing their moral outrage over contraception, I certainly wouldn’t tweet about it. And the photographs I’ve taken of myself wearing nothing but oven mitts and a tiara will never be shared on a Facebook page.”

- CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #378

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Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:33:11 -0600

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:19:01 -0600

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:21:33 -0600

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

by Rosemarie Urquico