Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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What’s his name’s great painting…
We were doing a little home painting today, I don’t have the nerve yet to move The Fellas past the washable tempera paints, and we had a little emotion around “it just doesn’t look right” and “there’s not way to make paintings look right”. “Hold on,” I comforted. I generally don’t know the medium of […]
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Tap Tap Bam
Best Comic Issue Ever: Spider-man versus Wolverine Best use of “suicide by spider”. Quick Plot: Peter Parker on vacation in Germany Wolverine in Germany visiting old female spy buddy who says her cohort is getting wiped, she’s ready to go, and she wants Logan to do it Somehow Peter gets tingly nearby and stops Wolverine […]
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The Smile
Best Star Trek Episode: Tapestry, from Star Trek the Next Generation Magnificent application of the “George Bailey” or “Path Not Taken” structure Quick Plot: Opens with Picard’s “Jarvik 7” heart failing from an injury a normal heart would have survived Omnipotent cast-regular alien “Q” arrives to give Picard the chance to revisit the moment he […]
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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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Vockell Rules #1: Protect the Team
I have decided to become more deliberate in the specific development of character with The Fellas. We’ve each now got a moleskin book with our name and Vockell Rules on the front. Over time we’re going to write in the ideas and guidelines that define us as Vockells. We started with Rule #1, but we […]
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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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Best of…holy crap that sucked
I stumbled across “Best of Enemies” on Netflix. Love that recommendation engine. I’m decently familiar with both principals in this ABC ‘Hail Mary’ coverage of the 1968 presidential primary. William F Buckley, Jr and Gore Vidal were each incredible intellectuals with larger than life personalities and the 1968 election in the middle of Vietnam and […]
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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. […]
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And then behind him…
I was church shopping in 2011 and was settling in on First Presbyterian in Burlingame under the pastoral care of Paul Watermulder. I have some conditioned bias for old-white-dude-pastors, probably because the handful of meaningful ministers I’d experienced from high school through New York came from a pretty standard mold that Paul fit perfectly (or […]
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