Category: 80percenttruestories
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Please Step Back — VMAs 2 of 2
80pts: I’ve worked with enough “famous” or “powerful” people to not get that worked up about meeting them. Sometimes to my detriment. December 2006. It’s Yahoo!’s Year-End-Party and I’m leading a presentation up on stage as the lead of YEF, the Yahoo! Employee Fund, recognizing some great donor teams and wrapping up the silent auction. […]
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Grohlum Amo – VMAs 1 of 2
80pts: I love Dave Grohl. There, I said it. I don’t regret it. It needed to be said. I’ve seen enough “real” interviews to know he is a real dude and can be as big-hearted as an asshole as any of us. But he says stuff all the time about his love of music and […]
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And then I came out from behind the camera…
80PTS: I was meeting Hunter at a hotel in D.C. to attend a Cato Institute event celebrating their 25th Anniversary. His father had bought a table and we were about to hear PJ O’Rourke read his Liberty Manifesto for the 100th time and Steve Forbes add nothing but more hot air to his flat tax […]
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Dropping the hammer with Gar(r)y
80PTS: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church struck just the right spiritual chord with me. Their powerfully charismatic leader brought the intent of scriptures alive and delivered them to relevancy of modern life. He also turnd mission-to-action, sometimes having the congregation sit for ten minutes until a volunteer was found for a Thursday night homeless shelter shift. […]