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It says “I am a maker. I make stuff”.
Great art night tonight. I have refrained from introducing The Fellas to the medium of spray paint. It lends itself to the lazy application of color and I think I had some fantasy of researching “tagging” and “graffiti art” before we cracked open the aerosols. Krylon has presented itself anonymously from time to time – […]
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The Closing of the American Mind
My sophomore year philosophy class took a sharp turn and redefined itself around the newly released “Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom. At its simplest, “Closing” says that modern American universities have become sterilized to the point where they only push students toward pretty standard measures of life success, and do little to […]
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Opus Memoriae MMXVII
2017 was a great year. I picked 12 important events and made them into the Memory Painting for 2017. The Fellas dug on watching it go from blank canvas to complete and they painted some blocks of their own on some mini-canvasses (canvassae?). As I started each block we talked about how much fun we […]
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a big fuck up
I closed out the year with a major fuck up. It was a shitty coda to a great year. I’m not sure whether I’m super rusty in adult human interaction, if I lost some self-awareness in unexpected enthusiasm, or I’m just an asshole and it got revealed in cataclysmic fashion. Likely it was a combination […]
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Dee Vockell 1940-2010
She was ready to go. Dee was down with G.O.D. and was ready to go spend some time getting to know him even better. The final weeks weren’t great, and with just a couple of days until Christmas we decided to have her memorial in January. Her life of service had a magical, defining, final […]
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Step 2. Crushed.
Remember on June 1st of last year when you were talking big smack about “Novo Nordisk is the world’s largest diabetes company and they just announced an open RFP to supply a digital diabetes program to their patients. I’m going to win that and start the cascade.” [Big Talk]
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Trump + Lauer
There were a couple of different ways to get onto Season 2 contestant pipeline of The Apprentice. 1. Send in a video, 2. Wait in line at the Today Show and maybe participate in a quick competition, 3. Wait in line at open casting. My video was five minutes long and committed to VHS with […]
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Aaron Sorkin
The headline alone conjures visions of long fast-paced walks, staccato banter, papers being handed in and out of frame, and you either don’t really know who he is or you love, love, love him. He comes to the front of the lobe today as I have just watched “Molly’s Game”, his first director gig. It […]
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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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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. […]